# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-fassmann
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:17:25.375Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-fassmann"
name: "Heinz Fassmann"
slug: "heinz-fassmann"
description: "Heinz Faßmann is an Austrian politician and professor of human geography and land-use planning at the University of Vienna. He served as the Minister of Education in the Second Kurz cabinet in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the Schallenberg government of Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg. He previously served in the same capacity from December 2017 to June 2019: he was succeeded in the post by Martin Polaschek in December 2021. Faßmann is considered to be aligned with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) but holds no formal party membership or affiliation."
tagline: "Austrian university teacher and minister of education (independent)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2020_Heinz_Fa%C3%9Fmann_Ministerrat_am_8.1.2020_(49351370546)_(cropped)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.52
  momentum:             25
  historical:           5.529702666666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Fa%C3%9Fmann"
    title: "Heinz Faßmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هينز فاسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Fa%C3%9Fmann"
    title: "Heinz Faßmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Fa%C3%9Fmann"
    title: "Heinz Faßmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Fassmann"
    title: "Heinz Fassmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Fassmann"
    title: "Heinz Fassmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1600191"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump