Former FPÖ Politician Johannes Hübner Dies at 68

The Vienna state party announced this on Monday. Hübner was a member of the National Council and the Federal Council until he retired from politics. FPÖ chairman Herbert Kickl and the Vienna FPÖ chief Dominik Nepp expressed their condolences over his death. Hübner had recently made headlines due to a visit with other former Freedom Party members to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Hübner began his political career in 1986 as a Freedom Party district councilor in Wieden. In 2008, he joined the National Council, where he served until 2017. After the Vienna election in 2020, the foreign policy expert of his party was sent to the Federal Council by the Vienna state parliament. He left this body in 2023. Hübner was married, father of two daughters and grandfather of several grandchildren.

Vienna State Party Mourns Johannes Hübner

"With great sadness, we say goodbye to Johannes Hübner, who played a shaping role in our Freedom Party family for many years," FPÖ chairman Kickl wrote in a statement. Hübner's political work "grew from a solid foundation of freedom values," he honored the deceased. In all his roles, Hübner "committed himself to the Freedom Party community with full force and passion," also wrote Nepp and the Vienna FPÖ club chairman Maximilian Krauss.

At the end of September 2023, Hübner traveled to Afghanistan together with the former blue EU delegate Andreas Mölzer and met there among others the "foreign minister" of the unrecognized Taliban rulers, as official photos on X (Twitter) proved. The FPÖ leadership then emphasized that the trip had not been agreed upon.

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