Nikolaus Scherak

Nikolaus Scherak
Nikolaus Scherak
	Scherak in 2012
Deputy Chairman of NEOS – The New Austria
	In office; 18 October 2018 – 21 June 2021 Serving with Sepp Schellhorn
Leader	Beate Meinl-Reisinger
Preceded by	Angelika Mlinar; Beate Meinl-Reisinger
Succeeded by	Andrea Klambauer; Christoph Wiederkehr
Member of the National Council
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 29 September 2013
Constituency	3 – Lower Austria
Chairman of JuLis – Young Liberals Austria/JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS
	In office; October 2010 – 2014
Personal details
Born	Nikolaus Scherak; 16 October 1986 (age 37); Vienna, Austria
Political party	NEOS – The New Austria

Nikolaus Scherak (born 16 October 1986) is an Austrian politician of NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum who has been a member of the National Council since 2013. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as co-deputy chairman of NEOS. Prior, he was the leader of JuLis – Young Liberals Austria, a liberal youth organisation, which under his leadership, became the youth wing of NEOS.^[1]

Personal life

Scherak grew up in

Danube University in Krems

.

Political career

Scherak has been involved with the Young Liberals Austria (JuLis) since the 2009 European elections. From July 2009 to November 2010, he was deputy federal chairman of the organisation. In October 2010, he was elected federal chairman.

Under Scherak's leadership, the JuLis aligned itself with the newly-founded

NEOS – The New Austria. At the party's founding congress in 2012, Scherak was appointed to the party board.^[2] Shortly thereafter, the JuLis joined a joint electoral list with NEOS and the Liberal Forum for the 2013 federal election. Schwerak was NEOS spokesman of Lower Austria and the top candidate in Lower Austria

, and was elected to the National Council. From 2014, he was deputy chairman of the NEOS parliamentary group.

After the merger of NEOS and the Liberal Forum in January 2014, the JuLis voted 98.7% in favour of becoming the party's youth wing. It was renamed JUNOS – Young liberal NEOS; at the same time, Scherak was re-elected as chairman.

Douglas Hoyos-Trauttmansdorff. He was followed in November 2016 by Indra Collini

as Lower Austria's NEOS spokesman.

After Beate Meinl-Reisinger became federal chairwoman of NEOS in October 2018, Scherak was elected deputy chairman, alongside Sepp Schellhorn.^[4] He left office in 2021 but remained deputy chair of the NEOS parliamentary group.^[5]

References

^ "Julis are now called Junos and are part of the Neos". Der Standard. 22 March 2014.
^ "Neos: The new ones in the middle". Die Presse. 27 October 2012.
^ "Julis are now called Junos and are part of the Neos". Der Standard. 22 March 2014.
^ "Meinl-Reisinger elected as new Neos chief with 94.7 percent". Der Standard. 23 June 2018.
^ "Meinl-Reisinger re-elected as Neos chairwoman". Die Presse (in German). 19 June 2021.

[1] "Julis are now called Junos and are part of the Neos". Der Standard. 22 March 2014.

[2] "Neos: The new ones in the middle". Die Presse. 27 October 2012.

[3] "Julis are now called Junos and are part of the Neos". Der Standard. 22 March 2014.

[4] "Meinl-Reisinger elected as new Neos chief with 94.7 percent". Der Standard. 23 June 2018.

[5] "Meinl-Reisinger re-elected as Neos chairwoman". Die Presse (in German). 19 June 2021.

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