Alexander Tschugguel

Alexander Tschugguel (born 24 June 1993 in Vienna) is an Austrian conservative political and Traditionalist Catholic activist. He was a founding member of The Reform Conservatives, a defunct Austrian conservative political party that set out to abolish the European Parliament.

Tschugguel received international attention in 2019 for stealing statuettes, allegedly of the indigenous American goddess Pachamama, displayed in a church in Rome during the Amazon synod and throwing them into the Tiber.

Alexander's father, Dr. Walter Tschugguel, works as a physician in Vienna.

Tschugguel left the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria and converted to Catholicism at fifteen. He is a member of the Traditionalist Catholic movement.

Tschugguel was married in 2019 in a wedding officiated by Bishop Athanasius Schneider.

Tschugguel joined the anti-Communist Traditionalist Catholic network Tradition, Family and Property in 2009. He has worked with far right politicians Ewald Stadler (formerly of the Freedom Party of Austria, later legal counsel for Pegida) and Beatrix von Storch (Alternative for Germany), as well as the Catholic activist Hedwig von Beverfoerde (formerly of CDU) in opposing abortion, same-sex marriage in Austria and Germany, and the inclusion of gender studies and sex education in schools in Germany and Austria.

Tschugguel is an anti-immigration activist who declares particular concern with the influx of Muslim refugees into Austria and Germany. He describes his political stance as patriotic and monarchist. He acts as a spokesperson for the Young European Student Initiative, a conservative Christian association originating from the Paneuropean Union. In 2013 he assisted Ewald Stadler with the founding of The Reform Conservatives, a short-lived Austrian conservative political party that aspired to reverse the Maastricht Treaty and abolish the European Parliament.

In 2014 Tschugguel co-organized a bus tour in Germany with von Beverfoerde to campaign against same-sex marriage. In 2018 and 2019, he was the co-organizer of the Vienna March for Life. In May 2019 he organized Rosary for Austria, a Latin Mass and prayer event at the Karlskirche.