{"id":"christian-kern","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/christian-kern","language":"en","name":"Christian Kern","name_en":"Christian Kern","name_ne":null,"description":"Austrian politician and businessman","headline":"Austrian politician and businessman","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Christian Kern (Austrian German pronunciation: [ˈkrɪsti̯a(ː)n ˈkɛrn]; born 4 January 1966) is an Austrian businessman and former politician who served as Chancellor of Austria from 17 May 2016 to 18 December 2017 and chairman of the Social Democratic Party from 25 June 2016 to 25 September 2018.","summary_more":["A business journalist by profession, the member of Austria's Social Democratic Party served as spokesman of the SPÖ's parliamentary group leader in the mid-1990s, before he became a senior manager in Austria's leading electricity company Verbund AG. In 2010, Kern was appointed CEO of the state-owned Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), chairing the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) from 2014 onwards. Following the resignation of Werner Faymann amidst the presidential election, the governing Social Democrats nominated Kern for the office of chancellor.","Kern was sworn in as Chancellor of Austria on 17 May 2016, vowing to continue the grand coalition with the People's Party (ÖVP) but promising a New Deal that would bring about more jobs by cutting red tape while ensuring ordinary workers receive a share of economic prosperity. Kern criticized the Austrian political elite as being power-obsessed and devoid of a meaningful political agenda about the country's future."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"4 January 1966","date":"1966-01-04"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Vienna","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1741"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Austria","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"journalist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1930187"},{"text":"spokesperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17221"},{"text":"communication scholar","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26759595"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Social Democratic Party of Austria","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179111"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Vienna","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165980","end":"1997"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Eveline Steinberger-Kern","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38583087"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"member of the National Council of Austria (9 November 2017 – 15 November 2018)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17535155","start":"2017-11-09","end":"2018-11-15"},{"text":"Federal Chancellor of Austria (17 May 2016 – 18 December 2017)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1006398","start":"2016-05-17","end":"2017-12-18"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q740427","date":"2013"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P166"}},{"key":"x","label":"X (Twitter)","values":[{"text":"KernChri","url":"https://x.com/KernChri"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060#P2002"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Kern","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060","https://x.com/KernChri"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Christian Kern born?","a":"Christian Kern was born on 4 January 1966 in Vienna."},{"q":"What positions has Christian Kern held?","a":"Positions held by Christian Kern include: member of the National Council of Austria (2017–2018); Federal Chancellor of Austria (2016–2017)."},{"q":"Where did Christian Kern study?","a":"Christian Kern was educated at University of Vienna."}],"related":[{"name":"Kurt Schuschnigg","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kurt-schuschnigg"},{"name":"Josef Klaus","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/josef-klaus"},{"name":"Alfred Gusenbauer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfred-gusenbauer"},{"name":"Carl Vaugoin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/carl-vaugoin"},{"name":"Sebastian Kurz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sebastian-kurz"},{"name":"Wolfgang Schüssel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/wolfgang-schussel"},{"name":"Otto Ender","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/otto-ender"},{"name":"Arthur Seyss-Inquart","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-seyss-inquart"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/christian-kern-c360d00025.jpg","width":500,"height":680,"license":"CC BY-SA 2.0","credit":"SPÖ Presse und Kommunikation","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Kern_2016_(portrait).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Christian Kern","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Kern","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q18135060","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18135060","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Christian Kern 2016 (portrait).jpg by SPÖ Presse und Kommunikation (CC BY-SA 2.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Kern_2016_(portrait).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Christian Kern, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Christian Kern 2016 (portrait).jpg — SPÖ Presse und Kommunikation, CC BY-SA 2.0.","cite":"\"Christian Kern\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/christian-kern. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T12:00:53Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/christian-kern","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/christian-kern","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/christian-kern?lang=ne"}}