Karin Kneissl

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Full Name	Karin Kneissl
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 18, 1965(1965-01-18)
Age	59
Birthplace	Vienna
Country	Austria
Horoscope	Capricorn

Karin Kneissl Biography

Karin Kneissl is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 18, 1965 in Vienna, Austria. Karin Kneissl (born 18 January 1965) is an Austrian journalist, diplomat and independent politician. She served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2017 and the year 2019. Her expertise is in Middle East issues. Middle East and was a lecturer prior to assuming the post she was offered by the Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

Kneissl is Vice-President of the Austrian Society for Political-Military Studies STRATEG. From 2011 until 2015, she served as a member of the Board for Whistleblowing Austria. On June 30, 2012, she was a guest of honor at an Annual “multiculture ball” organized by the Afro-Asian Institute Graz (AAI Graz). On May 10, 2017, her appointment was made to the board of supervisors of Wiener Stadtische Versicherungsverein.

In August 2018, she married entrepreneur Wolfgang Meilinger, 54, at a ceremony in the small town of Gamlitz, near the border with Slovenia. Russian president Vladimir Putin attended her wedding.

She quit the diplomatic service in the autumn of 1998. She was subsequently living in Seibersdorf close to Vienna which was which was where she worked between 2005 and 2010, serving as an elected local councilor who was independent on the list of the OVP. Kneissl has since been freelance journalist in German and English-language newspapers. Her name was made known to the general public for her political commentary within the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, and she has also written several special-interest and non-fiction books.

Karin Kneissl Net Worth

Karin Kneissl is one of the richest Politician from Austria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Karin Kneissl 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kneissl has studied law and Oriental languages at the University of Vienna between 1983 between 1983 and 1987. After graduation, she pursued a degree in international relationships at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Jordan in Amman. Then, she was able to spend an entire year as an Fulbright scholar in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. In 1992, she completed her studies at the Ecole nationale d’administration. She received an PhD on international law, with dissertation on the notion of Borders for the belligerent parties in the Middle East.

In 1990, she joined the Austrian Foreign Office. From 1990 until 1998 she was in Cabinet of OVP Foreign Minister Alois Mock. She also worked in the International Law Office, and was assigned overseas to Paris as well as Madrid.

In her public writings and appearances Kneissl has often sharply criticised the European Union and raised controversy with remarks on migration. In July 2016, after the Brexit referendum, she criticised European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker as “cynic of power”, “rowdy” and “arrogant”, who “behaves as a Brussels Caesar, who has made it his goal to break agreements, if it seems useful.” A quote from her book “My Middle East” also caused controversy, as she criticised Zionism, founded by Austro-Hungarian publicist Theodor Herzl, as a “blood and soil ideology” based on German nationalism in the 19th century. On the issue of refugees, migration, and integration she was also accused of serving stereotypes. At the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, Kneissl pointed out that most of them are economic migrants and that asylum seekers are “80 percent” young men between the ages of 20 and 30. In September 2015, she said on public television that one of the reasons for the revolts in the Arab world was “these many young men”, “testosterone- controlled”, “who no longer managed to get a wife today” because they have neither work nor their own home, and thus could not achieve “status as a man in a traditional society”. She also sharply criticised German Chancellor Angela Merkel as “grossly negligent” for her selfies with refugees, and later described the EU-Turkey refugee agreement as “nonsense”. Such remarks led to criticism and caused doubts concerning her self-definition as a “conservative free-thinker”, but also gained praise and sympathy from populist anti-mass migration party FPÖ, to whose events she was increasingly invited. In 2016, FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache considered nominating Kneissl as presidential candidate, but eventually decided in favour of Norbert Hofer instead.

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Who is Karin Kneissl Dating?

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Top Facts about Karin Kneissl

1. Born in Vienna, Kneissl spent part of her childhood in Amman, Jordan.
2. She studied law and oriental languages at the University of Vienna.
3. She joined Austria’s Foreign Office in 1990 and worked in the cabinet of ÖVP foreign minister Alois Mock.
4. Kneissl is an expert in international law, history of the Middle East, and the energy market.
5. Kneissl has authored several specialized and non-fiction books.
6. She writes for multiple newspapers and is the Vice President of the Austrian Society for Political-Military Studies STRATEG.
7. She was nominated and served as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2017-2019.
8. She is multilingual, speaking German, Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and has basic knowledge of Hebrew, Hungarian, and Italian.
9. She was guest of honor in the annual “multiculture ball” organized by the Afro-Asian Institute Graz (AAI Graz) in 2012.
10. In 2016, Kneissl criticized EU President Jean-Claude Juncker as “cynic of power” and “arrogant”.
11. In September 2015, she said on public television that revolts in the Arab world were caused by “these many young men” who possess neither work nor their own home.
12. On the issue of refugees, migration, and integration she was also accused of serving stereotypes.
13. Kneissl married entrepreneur Wolfgang Meilinger in Gamlitz, near the border with Slovenia in 2018.
14. She was appointed to the Board of Directors of the state gas company Rosneft in 2020.
15. In March 2021 she declared having to emigrate to Lebanon due to death threats.