Thomas Rehak

Thomas Rehak (born 21 January 1971) is an engineer and political figure from Liechtenstein who has served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein since 2017. He is the current leader of the Democrats for Liechtenstein since 2018.

Early life
Rehak was born on 21 January 1971 in Chur, Switzerland as the son of heating engineer Franz Rehak and his mother hairdresser Agnes Kindle as one of three children. He attended primary school in Triesen from 1978 to 1983 and then high school from 1983 to 1987.

He held an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer from 1987 to 1991 then from 1992 to 1995 he studied at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons in Chur.

Career
From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a service engineer at the Alcatel-Lucent in Zurich, then TeleNet project manager at Telecom Liechtenstein. Since 2001 he is a self-employed telecommunications consultant and from 2004 to 2017 he was the managing director of the data centre operator ICT-Center AG in Vaduz and Zurich.

In 2013, Rehak was a founding member of The Independents party and from 2013 to 2017 he was a deputy member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein, and also a member of the Liechtenstein European Economic Area commission. He was a member of the audit commission from 2015 to 2021. Rehak has been a member of the Landtag since the 2017 Liechtenstein general election.

In August 2018 Landtag member Erich Hasler was expelled from the Independents and, in which Rehak sided with Hasler and left with the party to be a founding member of the Democrats for Liechtenstein the following month. Rehak has been the leader of the party since 2018 and its candidate for Prime Minister of Liechtenstein. In the 2021 Liechtenstein general election he was re-elected to the Landtag as a member of the party in his own right.

Personal life
Rehak married Michaela Beck (22 September 1970) on 19 October 2002 and they have one child together.