Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff (; born 8 September 1990) is an Austrian politician of

NEOS – The New Austria NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum () is a liberal political party in Austria. It was founded as NEOS – The New Austria in 2012. In 2014, NEOS merged with Liberal Forum and adopted its current name. Since 2018, Beate Meinl-Reisinge ...

. 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 JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS () is the youth wing of Austrian liberal NEOS – The New Austria, NEOS party, and a full member of liberal youth organizations International Federation of Liberal Youth and European Liberal Youth. Founded in 1993 und ...

, from 2014 to 2019.

Biography

Born into an ancient

House of Hoyos The House of Hoyos is a prominent Austrian noble family of an ancient Castilian origin, whose members held significant political positions during the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empire. History It derives its name from El Hoyo de Pinares ...

, Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff is the eldest son of Austrian Count Rudolf Hoyos,

Freiherr (; male, abbreviated as ), (; his wife, abbreviated as , ) and (, his unmarried daughters and maiden aunts) are designations used as titles of nobility in the German-speaking areas of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in ...

zu Stichsenstein (b. 1968) and his wife, Countess Franziska von Goëss (b. 1968). He studied economics at the Vienna University of Economics from 2010. Before 2017, he worked as a project manager at NEOS and a forestry company. 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. 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.

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