Bruno Rossmann

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Bruno Rossmann (2017)

Bruno Rossmann (born April 16, 1952 in Villach , Carinthia ) is an Austrian economist and politician ( NOW previously List Pilz or Die Grünen ). From 2006 to 2019 he was a member of the Austrian National Council with interruptions and from June 1, 2018 club chairman of NOW .

Career

From 1958 to 1962 Bruno Rossmann attended elementary school in Sankt Johann bei Villach, from 1962 to 1970 the federal high school in Villach. He then studied economics at the University of Vienna . From 1976 to 1978 he was a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies with a focus on economics and then received a Fulbright scholarship to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, USA.

From 1979 to 1981 Bruno Rossmann worked in the budget section of the economic policy department of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance. From May 1981 to April 2017 he was a budget expert in the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna. His main areas of work were public budgets, budget law, taxes, financial equalization and questions of federalism. There are numerous publications on these work areas.

From 1982 to 2013 he was a member or expert of the Austrian National Debt Committee at the Österreichische Postsparkasse and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of the supervisory board of Kärntner Energieholding and in June 2016 he became a member of the supervisory board of energy supplier Kelag , of which he was a member until December 2017. In 2003/2004, at the invitation of the Green Parliamentary Club, he worked as an expert in the Financial Constitution Committee of the Austria Convention. From 1994 to 1998 he held the position of chairman of the works council of the Chamber of Labor and Employees for Vienna.

Rossmann lives in Vienna, is married and has two sons.

Political activity

From October 2006 to October 2008 he was in the Austrian National Council for the Greens for the first time . During this time he was the budget and finance spokesman for the Green Parliamentary Club and a member of the banking investigation committee. He played a key role in the creation of the new federal budget law and continuously analyzed the federal budget. In the National Council elections in 2008, Bruno Rossmann ran again for the Greens, but missed a mandate, but remained in an advisory capacity for the Greens on budget and tax issues. On July 6, 2012, he moved into the National Council for the second time after the mandate of Alexander Van der Bellen , who moved to the Vienna City Council, became vacant. He took over from Alexander Van der Bellen the role of spokesman for European and international developments. From 2014 Bruno Rossmann was the budget spokesman for the Green Parliamentary Club with a focus on budget, macroeconomics and fair taxation and distribution. Rossmann played a key role in the creation of the “banking package”, with which important steps were taken to combat tax fraud by easing banking secrecy.

On June 25, 2017, Rossmann lost the votes for places six and eight on the federal list for the 2017 National Council election at the Federal Green Congress.

On July 28, 2017, Rossmann announced that he would be running for the Pilz list (now NOW) in the national elections in October 2017 . In the National Council election in Austria in 2017, the Pilz list made it into the Austrian National Council. Rossmann has been a member of the National Council since November 9, 2017, as area spokesman responsible for budget, finances and the environment. His activities focus on issues of fair distribution and taxation as well as climate protection. On June 1, 2018, he and Wolfgang Zinggl took over the office of club chairman at JETZT as the managing club chairman. After the National Council election in 2019 , he resigned from the National Council.

Publications

  • with K. Kratena: Investment needs in waste management. in: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 1989, Volume 15 No. 2, pp. 193-220. on-line
  • With O. Farny, K. Kratena: Financial equalization in Austria - economic analysis and reform ideas. In: Materials on Economy and Society No. 42, Chamber for Workers and Employees for Vienna, Vienna 1990. online
  • The Budget Development of the City of Vienna 1980–1989. A structural analysis. In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 1991, Volume 17 No. 2, pp. 157-198. PDF
  • On the composition and durability of the budget consolidation of the EU states in the transition to monetary union. In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 1999, Volume 25 No. 1, pp. 9–40. PDF
  • with P. Netuschill: The reform of the public administration in the years 2000 to 2002 - attempt of an evaluation. In: Materials on Economy and Society No. 83, ed. from the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna 2003. online
  • with I. Mozart: A new fiscal regime in Europe. in: Vranitzky, F./Weinzierl R. (Ed.), Europe needs politics again. Vienna 2005. PDF
  • The new European control architecture - "More of the same" instead of a paradigm shift. In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Volume 37, 2 (2011) pp. 233–268. PDF
  • with C. Schlager: Budget policy in Austria before and after the financial and economic crisis. In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, vol. 38 2 (2012) pp. 248–272. PDF
  • with P. Biwald: Community finances in the corset of the European control architecture. In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft 2012, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 505–548. PDF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Now: List mushroom in parliament with a new name . In: news.ORF.at . November 19, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed November 19, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Bruno Rossmann on the website of the Austrian Greens ( Memento from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ orf.at: Holub appointed to the KELAG supervisory board . Article dated April 21, 2018, accessed April 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ Van der Bellen takes over a mandate in the Vienna City Council . Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Who else hasn't made it onto the green list. In: derstandard.at , June 27, 2017.
  6. ^ Zinggl, Rossmann and Holzinger support Pilz . Retrieved July 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Rossmann, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and politician of the Greens
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach