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Wolfgang Jung (* 15). March 1948 in Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting is an Austrian politician (FPÖ) and former officer (Brigadier) of the Federal Army and Defence Attaché. Jung was a member of the National Council, a member of the European Parliament and, from November 2005 until the end of 2018, a member of the Vienna Landtag and the Municipal Council. He is attributed to the German national wing of the FPÖ.

Training and military
Wolfgang Jung attended the elementary school Bad Wimsbach from 1954 to 1958 and completed his school education at the Realgymnasium Bad Ischl in 1967. Jung then completed his presence service from 1967 to 1968 and subsequently visited the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt between 1968 and 1971. From 1971 to 1979 he was platoon and company commander at Panzerbataillon 14 in Wels and was during this period in a UN foreign mission in Cyprus (1976). From 1979 to 1982, Jung trained as General Staff Officer at the National Defence Academy (LVAk) in Vienna and was then deployed as Chief of Staff of the 4th Panzergrenadier Brigade in Ebelsberg from 1982 to 1985. From 1985 to 1990 he served as a military attaché in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Jung was subsequently employed by General Staff Officer (G3) in the Panzergrenadier Division in Baden near Vienna from 1990 to 1991 and at the Army Intelligence Office (HNaA) from 1992 to 1996. In 1994 he was promoted to brigadier. On 15.09.2004 he acquired the akad. degree Magister at the University of Vienna. From 1996 he was used in various fields at the National Defence Academy and the Ministry of Defence, including as head of the Attaché Department and most recently in the Office of Security Policy.

Politics
Wolfgang Jung already joined the Ring Freedom Youth Austria (RFJ) during his school years in 1963 and was the municipal councillor and local party chairman of the FPÖ Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting from 1972 to 1976. Jung was a member of the National Council for the FPÖ from 13 November 1995 to 14 January 1996 (XIX GP) and on 26 April 1996 (XX GP) and from 12 November 1996 to 19 December 2002 (XX and XXI GP). From 2000 to 2002 he was chairman of the National Defence Committee. Between 26 April 1996 and 11 In November 1996 he was also a Member of the European Parliament for the FPÖ, where he was a full member of the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy and Rules of Procedure, Verification of Credentials and Immunity. Due to his professional change to Vienna, Jung was also increasingly involved in Viennese district politics. He was elected district party chairman of the FPÖ Wien-Liesing in 1998 and was district councillor in Liesing from 1991 to 1996. On 18 November 2005 Jung moved as a member of parliament for the constituency Liesing in the Vienna Landtag (18, 19 and 20 WP). On 24 January 2019 Roman Schmid moved for him as a member of the Vienna Landtag and a member of the