AktionsGemeinschaft (AG) is an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n students' organization. In the last national-wide election in 2015, it defended its position as the strongest political faction in the Federal Parliament of the

Austrian Students' Association The Austrian Students' Union by statutory body (german: Österreichische Hochschülerinnen- und Hochschülerschaft, ÖH) is the general students' representative body in Austria and serves as the students' government by federal law. The ÖH is memb ...

, winning 16 out of 55 mandates. Overall, it considers itself to be non-partisan, but is politically close to the

Austrian People's Party The Austrian People's Party (german: Österreichische Volkspartei , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria. Since December 2021, the party has been led provisionally by Karl Nehammer. It is currentl ...

, which temporarily funded parts of its activities in the past. AktionGemeinschaft is currently chaired by Andreas Jilly, who was elected as its chairman in August 2015. The organization was founded in the early 1980s by a merger of the Austrian Students' Union (ideologically close to the Austrian People's Party) and the non-partisan service-oriented Austrian Students' Forum. Many of its members have also been active in various Christian and conservative students' organisations. AktionsGemeinschaft is a member organisation of the European Democrat Students. Founded in Vienna by Scandinavian, German and Austrian students in 1961, the Freie Österreichische Studentenschaft, a legal predecessor of AG, was one of its initial members. At European level, AktionsGemeinschaft is today represented by its International Secretary, Sophia Skoda.Board composition of AG Austria
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811143804/http://aktionsgemeinschaft.at/ag/dein-team , date=2015-08-11 Homepage of AktionsGemeinschaft, 9 October 2015.

Famous former members

Gerald Bast,

Andreas Maislinger Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian historian and political scientist and founder and chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad, including the Gedenkdienst, the Austrian Social Service an ...

Wilhelm Molterer Wilhelm Molterer (born 14 May 1955 in Steyr) is an Austrian politician who currently serves as the Managing Director of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). Between 2011 and 2015 he was the Vice-President and member of the Manageme ...

, Gerfried Sperl,

Ernst Strasser Ernst Strasser (* 29 April 1956 in Grieskirchen, Upper Austria) is a former Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) politician and former Federal Ministry of the Interior (Austria), Federal Minister of the Interior in Austria (2000–2004), Member of the ...

, Matthias Strolz, Markus Wallner, Harald Mahrer.

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