Gernot Darmann
Gernot Darmann, born on July 7, 1975 in Graz, is an Austrian politician, lawyer and a Member of Parliament for the FPÖ (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs; Freedom Party of Austria) since 2013.
Political career[edit]
Gernot Darmann was Provincial party secretary of the Freedom in Carinthia from 2006 until 2008. After the national elections in October 2006, Darmann moved to the National Council as the youngest member of the AAF-Parliamentary Club. Darmann was the spokesman for justice, defence, science, human rights and youth for the AAF-Parliamentary Club and therefore a member of the parliamentary committees justice, science, defence, human rights, immunity and ombudsman. In 2008, Gernot Darmann was again the top candidate for the parliamentary elections in the constituency Klagenfurt and moved back into the Austrian Parliament.
As part of the new legislative period Darmann served as speaker in the fields of science and national defence. In the legislature until 2013, he was a National Council deputy member of Committee on Research, Innovation and Technology, Committee on Petitions and citizen initiatives, Judiciary Committee, Defence Committee, Permanent Subcommittee of the National Defence Committee, incompatibility Committee and Science Committee. Following his success in the state elections in Carinthia on March 1, 2009, Darmann also secured his mandate in this parliament and moved from the National Council to Carinthia to become an MP. Furthermore, Gernot Darmann was elected as the Vice Chairman of his faction in Carinthia.
In August 2012, he succeeded Kurt Scheuch as Chairman. Since April 2013, Darmann has again been a Member of Parliament and a member of the Judiciary Committee, Constitution Committee, Rules Committee and the Committee of Parliament immunity in Parliament. In the nationwide election to the National Council in September 2013, Darmann was the leading candidate of the Freedom Party Carinthia.
Education[edit]
Gernot Darmann first attended elementary school in Wolfsberg and then from 1985 to 1993 the Stiftsgymnasium the Benedictines of St. Paul in the Lavant Valley. Between 1993 and 1996, he studied Business Administration at the University of Graz and the University of Economics Vienna. In 1996, Darmann changed to study Law at the University of Vienna, where he then obtained his Masters in 2003.
