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Alexander Van der Bellen

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Alexander Van der Bellen

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Also known as VdB

President of Austria since 2017 (born 1944)

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Alexander Van der Bellen is an Austrian and Estonian politician, economist, and university teacher born in Vienna in 1944. He has served as the President of Austria and was a candidate in the 2016 Austrian presidential election. His political affiliations include The Greens – The Green Alternative and the Social Democratic Party of Austria. He is a Lutheran who speaks and writes in German.

Van der Bellen was educated at Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck and the University of Innsbruck. His professional career includes teaching positions at the University of Innsbruck, the University of Vienna, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He resides in Kaunertal and Vienna. His spouse is Doris Schmidauer. He has received the honorary citizenship and the Decoration for Exceptional Merits.

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Alexander Van der Bellen was elected President of Austria on December 4th, 2016. He previously served as a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and after joining politics, as the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known for

  • Wir sind Kaiser — Self (archive footage)2007
  • Willkommen Österreich — Self (archive footage)2007
  • Im Zentrum — Self2007
  • Kulturzeit — Self1995
  • Pressestunde — Self1990

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home - VDB 2022

Gemeinsam für Van der Bellen. Unabhängige Initiative zur Stärkung der liberalen Demokratie | Bundespräsidenten Wahl 2022 | Wahlkampf 22

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Estonia
Place of birth
Vienna
Spouse
Doris Schmidauer
Occupation
university teacher
Employer
University of Vienna
Political party
Social Democratic Party of Austria
Languages spoken
German
Native language
German
Religion
Lutheranism
Mass
70
Official website
www.vanderbellen.at
Image
Alexander Van der Bellen (13-07-2021) (cropped).jpg
Height
183
Work location
Vienna
Residence
Vienna
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Encyclopedic overview

Alexander "Sascha" Van der Bellen (born 18 January 1944), also referred to by the abbreviation VdB, is an Austrian politician serving as the president of Austria since 2017. He previously was a professor of economics at the University of Vienna, and after joining politics, the spokesman of the Austrian Green Party.

Van der Bellen was born in Austria to Russian and Estonian parents who were refugees from the recently occupied Estonia, and he became a naturalized citizen of Austria together with his parents in 1958. He is a descendant of the former Russian Empire's aristocratic Van der Bellen family of patrilineal Dutch ancestry dating back to the 18th century.

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