Gerald Grosz

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Gerald Grosz (2012)

Gerald Grosz (born February 15, 1977 in Graz , Styria ) is a former Austrian politician of the BZÖ . He was federal chairman of his party (October 2013 to March 2015), member of the National Council (October 2008 to October 2013) and regional chairman of the BZÖ Styria from June 2005 to March 2015.

Career

Gerald Grosz attended elementary and secondary school as well as the commercial academy in Deutschlandsberg in western Styria . In 1992 he joined the FPÖ Jörg Haiders and the Ring Freiheitlicher Jugend (RFJ). From 1993 to 1996 he was the district chairman of the RFJ in his home district of Deutschlandsberg. He then acted as executive city party chairman of the FPÖ in Deutschlandsberg until 1999. From 1996 to 1999 Grosz completed a commercial apprenticeship at an advertising company in Graz.

Between 1999 and 2000 he worked as a parliamentary assistant for the then National Council members Beate Hartinger and Herbert Haupt . From October 2000 to January 2005 Grosz was press spokesman in the cabinet of the Minister of Social Affairs and then Vice Chancellor Herbert Haupt; after his departure, he worked in the same position for the then State Secretary Sigisbert Dolinschek until the beginning of 2007 . Between 2004 and 2005 Grosz was again FPÖ city party chairman in his home community Deutschlandsberg.

After the separation of the BZÖ from the FPÖ, he left the FPÖ on April 5, 2005 and switched to the BZÖ. He then sat from mid-April 2005 to early May 2007 as a BZÖ mandate in the Deutschlandsberg municipal council. At the founding convention of the BZÖ Styria on June 5, 2005, Grosz was unanimously elected as the first alliance chairman of Styria on the proposal of the BZÖ boss Jörg Haider. He was presented by the then BZÖ boss Peter Westenthaler on August 1, 2006 as second in the state list behind Karin Gastinger on the Styrian BZÖ list for the 2006 National Council election in Austria . On October 23, 2006, BZÖ boss Westenthaler presented him as the new general secretary of the BZÖ. After two years of activity, he resigned from this position on August 8, 2008 during a federal board meeting in Klagenfurt on the grounds that he wanted to concentrate on Styria. On November 4, 2007, Grosz became the BZÖ's top candidate for the Graz municipal council election on January 20, 2008 , in which the BZÖ received 4.3 percent of the vote and two seats. From March 13, 2008 to January 2013, with one interruption between September 2010 and February 2011, he was the City Council of Graz. Grosz was the top candidate on the Styrian state list for the 2008 National Council election and was sworn in on October 28, 2008 in the Austrian National Council. As part of the ordinary federal convention of the BZÖ on April 26, 2009 Grosz was elected as one of the four deputies of Federal Chairman Josef Bucher . On October 13, 2010, he resigned from this position after discussions about the future direction of the BZÖ. After the party missed re-entry in the 2013 National Council election , Bucher resigned, and Grosz was elected alliance chairman on October 3, 2013. He resigned from this position on March 30, 2015 in order to be able to concentrate on his work as an entrepreneur, according to the announcement of his resignation.

Since 2017, Grosz has regularly published videos on YouTube and other social media in which he comments on current political developments. He also appears in discussion programs on Oe24.TV , including a. in the weekly format Fellner! Live Fussi vs. Grosz , in which he discussed with the political advisor Rudi Fußi . Recently he has been discussing in a similar format with Sebastian Bohrn Mena , a former SPÖ - and List - NOW - politician. He owns two consulting companies in Graz.

Private

Gerald Grosz is the first Third Camp politician to publicize his homosexuality . On May 10, 2013 he entered into a registered partnership with his partner in Graz . He is a knight of the Habsburg Order of St. George .

criticism

In August 2006, Grosz caused a sensation due to a press release on the death of an Austrian UN soldier during an Israeli air strike in Lebanon , in which he wrote, among other things: "This war of terror cannot be justified by any human argument." In a comment in the Salzburger Nachrichten Andreas Koller criticized him because this "subliminally defines the Jews out of the human community".

Publications (selection)

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Gerald Grosz resigns as BZÖ chairman
  2. ↑ Gerald Grosz's channel on Youtube
  3. ↑ Fußi vs. Grosz on youtube.com
  4. ^ Styrian BZÖ boss Grosz becomes a partner
  5. ^ BZÖ boss Grosz marries partner
  6. ↑ As in the emperor's time: Knights of the Order marched in the castle . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on June 22, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Alliance Future Austria: BZÖ-Grosz: Ariel Muzicant's words represent a terrible derailment . August 6, 2006
  8. ↑ Andreas Koller : Terror, the people and the Jews. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . August 7, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Grosz, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (BZÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz