Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff | |
Office: | General-Secretary of NEOS – The New Austria |
Term Start: | 1 August 2021 |
Predecessor: | Nikola Donig |
Office1: | Member of the National Council |
Term Start1: | 9 November 2017 |
Constituency1: | Federal list |
Office2: | President of the JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS |
Term Start2: | 2014 |
Term End2: | 2 November 2019 |
Predecessor2: | Nikolaus Scherak |
Successor2: | Anna Stürgkh |
Birth Date: | 8 September 1990 |
Birth Place: | Klagenfurt, Austria |
Party: | NEOS – The New Austria |
Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff (pronounced as /de/; born 8 September 1990) is an Austrian politician of NEOS – The New Austria. He has served as a member of the National Council since 2017 and general-secretary of NEOS since 2021. Previously, he was president of the party's youth branch, JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS, from 2014 to 2019.[1]
Born into an ancient House of Hoyos, Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff is the eldest son of Austrian Count Rudolf Hoyos, Freiherr zu Stichsenstein (b. 1968) and his wife, Countess Franziska von Goëss (b. 1968).[2] He studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics from 2010.[3] Before 2017, he worked as a project manager at NEOS and a forestry company.[4]
In 2012, Hoyos was elected as General-Secretary of JuLis – Young Liberals Austria, a liberal youth organisation. He played a leading role in the integration of JuLis as the official youth branch of NEOS. In 2014, he was elected president of JuLis, now renamed as JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS. He left office in 2019.[1]
He was elected to the National Council on the NEOS federal list in the 2017 federal election. In 2021, he was elected general-secretary of NEOS.[5]