In 2008, Schlomo Hofmeister, who was then living with his family in London and Jerusalem, was appointed Community Rabbi of Vienna by the Board of the Jewish Community of Vienna and has lived in the Austrian capital ever since[3] - where his ancestors had already resided for several generations after their expulsion from Spain.

[4] He also holds the office of Landesrabbiner of Lower Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia and Styria, as well as Chief Rabbi of the Styrian provincial capital Graz and Baden bei Wien.

[8] After completing his secondary education, he converted to Judaisms and studied at various yeshivos in England and Israel, studied social sciences, history and politics at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and the University of British Columbia (UBC), and completed his university studies at the end of 2002 with a Master of Science (MSc) degree from the London School of Economics (LSE).

[11] In 2019, Schlomo Hofmeister has been appointed Special Envoy of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) against right-wing extremism.

[23] In 2017, Hofmeister was appointed the first Chief Rabbi of the Austrian Armed Forces in 99 years and as such has since also been responsible for the Jewish military chaplaincy in Austria,[24][25] which had played a significant role in the monarchy but had been dissolved in 1918.