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Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff
Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff
General-Secretary of NEOS – The New Austria
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 August 2021
Preceded by	Nikola Donig
Member of the National Council
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 November 2017
Constituency	Federal list
President of the JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS
	In office; 2014 – 2 November 2019
Preceded by	Nikolaus Scherak
Succeeded by	Anna Stürgkh
Personal details
Born	8 September 1990 (age 34); Klagenfurt, Austria
Political party	NEOS – The New Austria

Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff (German pronunciation: [ˈhoːjos ˈtʁaʊ̯tmanzdɔɐ̯f]; 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]

Biography

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]