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. The Vienna FPÖ leader Dominik Nepp expressed deep sorrow at the "sudden death" in a press release. 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 councillor 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

"Johannes Hübner, in addition to his profession as a lawyer, has dedicated himself to the Freedom Party community with full force and passion for decades," said Nepp and the Vienna FPÖ club chairman Maximilian Krauss. The Freedom Party representative "did not shy away from any confrontation and always stood loyally by the party even in difficult times".

At the end of September 2023, Hübner travelled to Afghanistan with the former Freedom Party EU representative Andreas Mölzer and met, among others, the "foreign minister" of the unrecognised Taliban rulers, as official photos on X (Twitter) proved. The FPÖ leadership then emphasised that the trip had not been agreed upon.

(APA/Red)

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