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Austrian politician and scholar (born 1957) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolfgang Brandstetter is an independent Austrian politician and legal scholar who served as a member of the Constitutional Court of Austria from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as the Minister of Justice of Austria, as well as the country's Vice Chancellor.[1][2]
Wolfgang Brandstetter | |
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Member of the Constitutional Court | |
In office 27 February 2018 – 7 June 2021 | |
Appointed by | Federal Government |
Vice-Chancellor of Austria | |
In office 17 May 2017 – 18 December 2017 | |
Chancellor | Christian Kern |
Preceded by | Reinhold Mitterlehner |
Succeeded by | Heinz-Christian Strache |
Minister of Justice | |
In office 16 December 2013 – 18 December 2017 | |
Chancellor | Werner Faymann Christian Kern |
Preceded by | Beatrix Karl |
Succeeded by | Josef Moser |
Personal details | |
Born | Haag, Austria | 7 October 1957
Political party | Independent |
Children | 3 |
Education | University of Vienna |
In 2007 Brandstetter became director of the Institute for Austrian and European Economic Criminal Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.[3]
Brandstetter was chosen to be a member of the Werner Faymann cabinet in December 2013, designated to serve as the country's Minister of Justice. He later succeeded Reinhold Mitterlehner in becoming the Vice-Chancellor of Austria in May 2017.[4][circular reference]
Brandtstetter left office upon the swearing-in of Heinz-Christian Strache to his position on 18 December 2017.[5] In 2018, he served as a special adviser to European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Věra Jourová on rule-of-law issues.[6][7]
In February 2018 Brandstetter was appointed as a member of the Constitutional Court of Austria.
When prosecutors opened a probe in 2021 into whether Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had lied to a parliamentary committee investigating allegations of corruption by members of his previous government, Brandstetter also became a subject of criminal investigations.[8][9]
In June 2021, Brandstetter resigned following the publication of a series of private text messages sent to him by former colleague Christian Pilnacek (suspended section head in the Austrian Ministry of Justice) containing sexist and racist language.[10][11]
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