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Nov 06, 1967 Vienna, Austria 56 years old
Austrian politician
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About Peter Westenthaler
- Peter Westenthaler (born "Peter Hojac", 6 November 1967, Vienna) is an Austrian politician.
- He assumed his mother's maiden name Westenthaler instead of his former surname Hojac (Czech).
- A member of Jörg Haider's Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) up to the so-called "Knittelfeld Putsch" of 2002, he then worked for Frank Stronach's Magna Steyr, and in June 2006 was elected chairman of the newly founded Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ). As leader of the BZÖ, Westenthaler was engaged in a heated dispute with FPÖ chairman Heinz-Christian Strache over which of the two political parties is the legal successor to the former FPÖ (the party before the split of 2005 which was a candidate at the 2002 Austrian legislative election). On 30 August 2008, Peter Westenthaler was officially replaced as chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) by party founder Jörg Haider.
