High manager position

Katharina Nehammer has a new job at Agrarverlag

The Chancellor with his wife Katharina Nehammer at the Opera Ball(Bild: APA/HELMUT FOHRINGER)

Chancellor's wife Katharina Nehammer has a new job: she has taken on the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Viennese agricultural publishing house, which publishes specialist magazines such as "Holzkurier", "Pferderevue" and "Der Winzer". 

The publishing house has been part of the Raiffeisen Group for a few months now, having previously belonged to the Lower Austrian Farmers' Association. After the takeover, it was partially reorganized. Nehammer is entrusted with the operational management of the publishing house and advertising media provider owned by the Raiffeisen Group.

Nehammer is considered the most influential advisor to her husband, Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer. In the past, the German magazine "Spiegel" even referred to her as the "shadow chancellor".

Karl and Katharina Nehammer at the ÖVP presentation at the Wels Exhibition Center(Bild: APA/HELMUT FOHRINGER)

Nehammer's career began at ORF
With Nehammer, Agrarverlag has brought an experienced communications expert on board. The daughter of former ORF television presenter Peter Nidetzky also began her career at the public broadcaster before moving to the former television station Puls TV.

Nehammer worked for Kurz, Sobotka and Tanner
After helping with the election campaign of ÖVP presidential candidate Benita Ferrero-Waldner in 2004, she switched to politics and worked in the Foreign Ministry under Sebastian Kurz. After working as press spokeswoman for the then Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka, her further career took her to the cabinet of Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner. It was only in the summer that she moved to the agency "Schütze.Positionierung" as a senior consultant.