Herbert Kickl
Chair of the Freedom Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 June 2021
Preceded by	Norbert Hofer
Minister for the Interior
In office 18 December 2017 – 22 May 2019
Chancellor	Sebastian Kurz
Preceded by	Wolfgang Sobotka
Succeeded by	Eckart Ratz
General Secretary of the Freedom Party
In office 23 April 2005 – 12 January 2018 Serving with Karlheinz Klement, Harald Vilimsky
Preceded by	Uwe Scheuch
Succeeded by	Marlene Svazek
Member of the National Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 October 2019
Nominated by	Norbert Hofer
Affiliation	Freedom Party
In office 24 May 2019 – 22 October 2019
Constituency	3 – Lower Austria
In office 30 October 2006 – 18 December 2017
Nominated by	Heinz-Christian Strache
Affiliation	Freedom Party
Personal details
Born	(1968-10-19) 19 October 1968 (age 56) Villach, Carinthia, Austria
Political party	Freedom Party
Children	1

Herbert Kickl (born 19 October 1968) is an Austrian politician. He has been the leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since June 2021. He has been a Member of the National Council since 2019. He was the Minister for the Interior from 2017 to 2019 and general-secretary of the FPÖ from 2005 to 2018.^[1] He has been seen as a far-right politician.^[2]

Kickl led the FPÖ into the 2024 legislative election in which his party won the most seats in the National Council.^[3] The party won 29.2% of the vote, its best result in the party's history.^[4]

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