Heinz Faßmann
| Heinz Faßmann | |
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| Minister of Education | |
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Assumed office December 18, 2017 |
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| Chancellor | Sebastian Kurz |
| Preceded by | Sonja Hammerschmid |
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August 13, 1955 Düsseldorf |
| Political party | independent |
| Height | 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Heinz Faßmann (born August 13, 1955 in Düsseldorf) is an Austrian politician and professor of human geography and land-use planning at the University of Vienna. Since December 2017, Faßmann has been serving as the Minister of Education in the Kurz cabinet. Faßmann is considered to be aligned with the Austrian People's Party but holds no formal party membership or affiliation.
Heinz Faßmann was born on August 13, 1955 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
He spent his childhood and adolescence in Vienna.
Faßmann attended primary school from 1962 to 1966 and Gymnasium from 1966 to 1974.
Faßmann studied geography and social and economic history at the University of Vienna, graduating with a PhD in 1980. From 1980 to 1981, he was engaged in postgraduate work in sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies.
From 1981 to 1992, Faßmann was a researcher with the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He spent his Academy years on the Academy's commission on land-use planning (Kommission für Raumforschung). On the strength of his commission work, he was appointed Director of the Institute of City and Regional Planning (Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung) in 1992.
Four years later, in 1996, Faßmann left Vienna and the Academy to become a C4 professor of human geography and geoinformatics at the Technical University of Munich. Another four years later, in 2000, Faßmann returned to Vienna to teach human geography and land-use planning at his alma mater. In 2011, he was made the University's vice rector, a post he held until his transition into politics in 2017. He also served as a member of the senate of the University of Vienna from 2000 to 2006 and as the dean of the Faculty of Geosciences from 2006 to 2011.
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