Peter Hanke
City Councillor Peter Hanke was born in Vienna on 28 March 1964. He studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration before joining Wien Holding in 1993. From 2001 he worked as an authorised signatory, and in 2002 Mr. Hanke was appointed as one of two managing directors of Wien Holding. He was responsible for the business areas "Culture and Event Management" and "Logistics & Mobility".
Since May 2018, he has been Executive City Councillor and Provincial Councillor and has been responsible for the areas of finance, business, labour, international affairs and the Vienna Municipal Utilities (Wiener Stadtwerke) as well as the fire department and disaster protection since the Progress Coalition took office in November 2020. Peter Hanke is also President of the Vienna Tourist Board "WienTourismus" as well as President of the Vienna Business Agency.
Moreover, Mr. Hanke is engaged in the humanitarian field. He is a member of the extended provincial board of the Vienna Children's Friends organisation (Kinderfreunde Wien) and a board member of the "Business and Integration" association. He is also a member of the expert committee for congress promotion at Vienna Tourism (Wien Tourismus) and a member of the Board of Trustees of FK Austria Wien. Mr. Hanke has also been Vice President of the Austrian Association of Public Business and Social Economy since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.