Adi Gross

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Adi Gross (2017)

Adi Gross (born December 13, 1961 in Dornbirn ; actually Adolf Gross ) is an Austrian politician ( GREEN ) and energy and climate protection expert. Gross was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 2014 to 2019 and was the club chairman of the Vorarlberg Greens in the 30th legislative period of the state parliament . He has been a delegated member of the Austrian Federal Council from the state of Vorarlberg since 2019 .

Professional and political career

Gross studied electrical engineering at the Graz University of Technology with a focus on energy management and was active in the Austrian student body during this time . In the course of four years of research, Gross wrote his dissertation to obtain a doctorate in technical sciences. In 1996 he joined the state service of the state of Vorarlberg, in 2001 he took over the management of the Vorarlberg Energy Institute. From 2011 to the end of April 2014, he headed the department for energy, climate protection and resources relevant to climate protection in the office of the Vorarlberg state government. After leaving the state parliament, he has been working again since November 2019 as an employee in the energy and climate protection department at the office of the Vorarlberg state government.

After Adi Gross announced in April 2014 that he wanted to run as a career changer for Die Grünen in Vorarlberg in the state elections on September 21, 2014 , he resigned from his professional activity with the state of Vorarlberg. Gross then ran for third place on the Green State List and third in the Bregenz constituency , where he finally accepted one of the two basic mandates after the election. The previous club chairman Johannes Rauch and his deputy Katharina Wiesflecker were elected to the Vorarlberg state government due to the strong gains made by the Greens and the subsequent government coalition with the Vorarlberg People's Party . Subsequently, Adi Gross was appointed by the Green MPs as the new club chairman of the Greens in the Vorarlberg state parliament and moved into this for the first time on October 15, 2014 with the inauguration of the 30th Vorarlberg state parliament .

On April 23, 2019, in the run-up to the 2019 state elections , Adi Gross declared that he no longer wanted to stand for this election and would therefore leave the state parliament for health reasons as a state representative and club chairman at the end of the legislative period. He was nominated by the Greens as a member of the Austrian Federal Council and as such represents the state of Vorarlberg in Vienna. Gross has been a member of the Federal Council since November 6, 2019, where he belongs to the Green Federal Council that was re-established on December 20, 2019.

Controversy

Gross' return to the Vorarlberg state service led to a brief controversy: After his work as a member of the state parliament, he was entitled to return to the service of the office of the Vorarlberg state government . On November 1, 2019, he therefore took up a position specially created for him in the field of energy and climate protection, but initially did not move into an office at the responsible department VIa in Landhaus Bregenz , but rather his own office at the Energy Institute in Dornbirn . After an internal set of slides became known, in which it was announced that Gross was assigned to the Energy Institute, but would only work for his party colleague, Landesrat Rauch , to whom he reports directly, accusations arose that this was a kind of post haggling . When asked about the discussion by the media, Adi Gross denied the facts. Governor Markus Wallner finally decided, as the state's highest human resources officer, that Gross would be assigned to the energy and climate protection department and not subordinate to the Energy Institute or the Rauch Regional Council.

Another controversy arose in July 2020 when it became known that Adi Gross, in his half-day job as a state employee, had registered and had been approved for six weeks of uninterrupted time compensation for the summer of 2020 to cut 160 overtime hours . Gross justified this long, uninterrupted leave of absence and the comparatively high amount of overtime with the words “These are completely legitimate claims to the business press agency. I have accumulated these times and have the right to recover now ”. He also worked much more than usual in the home office during the exit restrictions in the wake of the Corona crisis , which is why the accumulation of overtime is not unusual.

Private life

Adi Gross is married, has three children and lives in Lauterach .

Web links

Commons : Adi Gross  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Günther Bitschnau: Adi Gross returns to the Vorarlberger Landesdienst. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). December 5, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ A bang for the Greens: Adi Gross no longer competes. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). April 23, 2019, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Prock: Black-Green II stands. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). November 5, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 (Paywall).
  4. ↑ Post chests and vignettes. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). December 7, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 (Paywall).
  5. ↑ Tony Walser: Green ex-club chairman embellished its own Wikipedia entry. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). February 6, 2020, accessed February 6, 2020 (Paywall).
  6. ↑ Tony Walser: Future job of the green ex-club boss causes debate. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). December 6, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 (Paywall).
  7. ↑ Backdrop: The overtime record in the home office has consequences. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). July 18, 2020, accessed July 19, 2020 (Paywall).
  8. ↑ Günther Bitschnau: Six weeks ZA: Adi Gross causes a stir again. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). July 16, 2020, accessed July 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gross, Adi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Big, Adolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (GRÜNE), member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn