Nehammer's wife and children received police protection as a result of death threats received after the attack. He described the attacker as an "Islamist terrorist" and a sympathiser of the Islamic State, and admitted that intelligence services under his jurisdiction had failed to communicate information that could have prevented the attack.
Nehammer led the government response following the 2020 Vienna attack.
He is considered a strong supporter of Sebastian Kurz's refugee policy. He was one of three public crisis managers during the COVID-19 pandemic, with responsibility for the enforcement of lockdowns and restrictions. Under his leadership, the Austrian government filed charges in mid-2020 against a person who had confessed to spying for Turkey’s secret service. Nehammer was appointed minister of the interior in the second Kurz government, and was sworn in on 7 January. In the course of the subsequent government formation, he negotiated in the areas of Europe, migration, integration, and security. He was also one of the ÖVP's five assessors at the electoral authority during the election. Nehammer ran in the 2019 federal election in fifth place in the ÖVP Vienna state list, and eleventh place on the ÖVP federal list. In September 2018, he also succeeded Efgani Dönmez as spokesman for integration and migration. On 25 January 2018, he succeeded Elisabeth Köstinger and Stefan Steiner as general-secretary of the ÖVP. He was elected as deputy chairman of the ÖVP parliamentary faction on 8 November and was appointed media spokesman. During the subsequent government formation, he was a member of the ÖVP negotiating team in the area of defence. In the 2017 federal election, Nehammer was elected as a representative for Vienna. Since April 2017, he has been district party chairman of the ÖVP in Vienna- Hietzing. In November 2016, he was also elected regional chairman of the ÖAAB Vienna. He succeeded August Wöginger as general-secretary of the ÖAAB in 2016 and held this position until January 2018. During the 2016 Austrian presidential election, he was appointed replacement manager for the ÖVP's Andreas Khol partway through the campaign, but was unable to save him from a historically poor result of 11%.
In October 2015, Nehammer was appointed deputy general-secretary and federal organizational speaker of the Austrian Workers' Union (ÖAAB), the trade union association of the ÖVP. He then became director of the party academy's Lower Austria association and was considered close to then-deputy governor Wolfgang Sobotka. He was then head of the service and mobilisation department at the party headquarters from 2007–08 and the training and networking department from 2008–09. Nehammer became active within the ÖVP party organisation after leaving the military, initially working with the party academy. Nehammer is a member of the Catholic Austrian Students' Corporations Sonnberg Perchtoldsdorf within the Mittelschüler-Kartellverband. He then worked as an instructional trainer for information officers for the Federal Ministry of Defence and as a trainer for strategic communication for various institutions, such as the Vocational Promotion Institute (BFI) and the Political Academy of the Austrian People's Party.įrom 2012, Nehammer completed a two-year university course in political communication at the University for Continuing Education Krems and graduated with a master's degree. In 1997 he was discharged as a lieutenant. He completed his military service as a one-year volunteer with further service until 1996. Nehammer grew up in Vienna, where he attended Kalksburg College and Amerlingstrasse Grammar School, graduating in 1992.
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