Andreas Schnider

Andreas Schnider (born 3 December 1959

Teaching From 1982 to 1989, Schnider worked as a religion teacher at various grammar schools in Graz. From 1983 to 1989, he was also employed as a university assistant at the Institute for Catechetics and Religious Education at the Graz University. From 1989 to 2001, he was head of the Religious Education Institute ("Religionspädagogisches Institut") of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau.

Publishing and consulting company In 1989, Schnider founded the publishing house Manumedia Schnider Verlag, and further to "dr. schnider's eu" in 2005. Schnider is author, editor and publisher of numerous books. a post he held until 2006. From 17 December 2002 Schnider also became a member of the Federal Council in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna, succeeding . After the 2005 Styrian state election, Schnider was sworn in as a member of the on 25 October 2005, but resigned his Landtag mandate after the election to the Bundesrat on 27 October. Schnider was also president of the Austrian Academic Association (Österreichischer Akademikerbund) from 2010.