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Kurz in 2018, photo by palinchak /Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Meidling, Vienna, Austria
Date of Birth: 27 August, 1986
Ethnicity: Austrian, German
Sebastian Kurz is an Austrian politician. He has served as Chancellor of Austria, from 18 December, 2017 to 28 May, 2019, and again, from 7 January, 2020 to 11 October, 2021. He has also been Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 16 December, 2013 to 18 December, 2017, Chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, from 1 January, 2017 to 18 December, 2017, and Chairman of the People’s Party, from 14 May, 2017 to 3 December, 2021.
Sebastian’s father, Josef Kurz, is an engineer. Sebastian’s mother, Elisabeth (Döller), is a teacher. He has two children with his partner, economics teacher Susanne Thier.
Sebastian’s maternal grandmother was named Magdalena Müller. She was born in Temerin, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now Vojvodina, Serbia, and was a Danube Swabian. She settled in Zogelsdorf, now in Austria, during World War II, after the Yugoslav Partisans and the Red Army started moved into her birth territory.
Source: http://www.kleinezeitung.at