Dr. Walter Rosenkranz was born in 1962 in Krems an der Donau. Lower Austria. After completing his secondary education at the Bundesgymnasium Krems in 1980, he pursued guitar studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts. In parallel, he began studying law at the University of Vienna, earning his doctorate (Dr. iur.) in 1989.

Following his military service in 1990, he worked at the Federal Ministry of  Defence. He later held various positions, including as a legal advisor for the FPÖ parliamentary group and as party secretary for the FPÖ Vienna region. From 1995 to 2000, he trained as a lawyer before establishing himself as an attorney and criminal defense lawyer. His political career began in 1988 as a member of the municipal council of the statutory city of Krems an der Donau, a position he held until 2017.

In 2008, he was elected to the National Council as the FPÖ's lead candidate for Lower Austria, serving until 2019. During this period, he acted as the FPÖ’s spokesperson for education and held various leadership positions within the parliamentary group, including serving as deputy parliamentary group chairman (2013–2017) and parliamentary group chairman (2017–2019).

In 2019, he was elected by Parliament as national Ombudsman, a position he held until October 2024, advocating for citizens' rights and responsible for administrative oversight. In 2022, his party nominated him as a candidate for the Austrian presidential election. On October 24, 2024, he was elected President of the National Council.

Walter Rosenkranz is married and has one son.

02/12/2008 - 31/08/2014 Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology

01/03/2007 - 01/07/2008 Minister for Women, Media and Public Services

11/01/2007 - 28/02/2007 Minister without Portfolio

2000 - 2007 and 2008 Secretary General of the Austria Social Democratic Party (SPÖ)

Dr. Gudrun Kugler is a Member of the Austrian Parliament. In October 2017, she was first elected to the national parliament, the so-called Nationalrat. Re-elected in 2019 she is now the human rights spokesperson as well as the spokesperson for WWII-exiled minorities for the parliamentary group of ÖVP. Furthermore she is member of the Austrian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and chairs the Austrian bilateral parliamentary group with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Kugler majored in Law, Women's Studies, and Theological Studies on Marriage and the Family. She holds a PhD in International Law.

From 2001 to 2004 she worked as the director for World Youth Alliance - Europe (www.wya.net) in Brussels. From 2008 to 2017, she worked as an adjunct professor at the International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family (www.iti.ac.at).

Gudrun Kugler founded and accompanied a number of successful initiatives throughout her professional life: Kairos Consulting for Non Profit Initiatives, the Catholic online Dating Website www.kathtreff.org, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe www.intoleranceagainstchristians.eu, a political training course for young adults hosted by the Austrian think thank Dr. Karl-Kummer-Institute (www.kummer-institut.at) and several more.

Mrs. Kugler was a member of the FRP Advisory Panel of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency from 2010 to 2012 and was actively involved at the OSCE for civil society organization.

In 2015, she was successfully elected to Vienna's regional parliament by preferential votes, where she focused on European and International Affairs, Human Rights, and Integration of Refugees until her election into the national parliament in 2017.

Gudrun Kugler has published several reports, articles, and books, including "Europa der Grundrechte?," "Helden der Menschenwürde," "Entdeckung der Freundschaft," "Exiting a Dead End Road. A GPS for Christians in Public Discourse," and "Niemand ist eine Insel. Wie man den Partner fürs Leben findet.” For her dissertation Gudrun Kugler was distinguished with the Leopold-Kunschak-Award. Her work for WYA was recognized by the foundation “Ja zum Leben.“ For her commitment to uphold the right to freedom of religion she received the Saint “Thomas More Religious Freedom Advocacy Award” by the International Catholic Legislators Network (ICLN). Gudrun Kugler is married and has four children.