1. Michael Spindelegger served in the cabinet of Chancellor Werner Faymann as foreign minister of Austria from 2008 to 2013 and as finance minister from 2013 to 2014; additionally, he held the office of vice-chancellor from 2011 to 2014.
16 Facts About Michael Spindelegger
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Michael Spindelegger went to school in Hinterbruhl and to the Keimgasse gymnasium in Modling.
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From 1982 to 1983, Michael Spindelegger was Assistant Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Criminal Law, University of Vienna.
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From 1992 to 1993, Michael Spindelegger was Member of the Federal Council of Austria.
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From January 1995 to October 1996, Michael Spindelegger was Member of the European Parliament, where he served on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy.
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From December 1993 to March 1995, and since October 1996, Michael Spindelegger was a member of the National Council of Austria.
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From 1991 Michael Spindelegger was the deputy federal chairperson of his party's labour wing, the Austrian Workers' and Employees' Association and, from 2009, the organization's federal chairman.
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On 30 October 2006 Michael Spindelegger became Second Speaker of the Austrian Parliament.
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Between 2008 and 2013 Michael Spindelegger served as Foreign Minister of Austria, in April 2011 he additionally took over the post of vice chancellor from Josef Proll.
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Michael Spindelegger was elected OVP party chairman in May 2011.
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Michael Spindelegger defended the decision to release Golovatov by stating information from Lithuania was too vague.
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In 2011, Michael Spindelegger appointed the then 24-year-old Sebastian Kurz as an integration secretary saying later, that he groomed Kurz to be his successor.
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In July 2014, Michael Spindelegger announced that his fellow conservative Johannes Hahn would remain Austria's Member of the European Commission under President Jean-Claude Juncker.
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Michael Spindelegger resigned at the end of August 2014 following disputes over tax reform.
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In 2015, Michael Spindelegger became the director of the Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine.
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In February 2020, Michael Spindelegger joined around fifty former European prime ministers and foreign ministers in signing an open letter published by British newspaper The Guardian to condemn US president Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan, saying it would create an apartheid-like situation in occupied Palestinian territory.