Peter Goldgruber

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Peter Goldgruber (born October 20, 1960 in Wegscheid, municipality of Mariazell ) was General Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Austria until May 22, 2019 . He assumed this office with the inauguration of the Kurz I government and thus Interior Minister Herbert Kickl and was the first general secretary in this ministry.

Professional career

After completing an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer and radio and television technician and completing the military service, Goldgruber began his career in the Austrian administration when he joined the police service of the Federal Police Directorate in Vienna in 1980. After basic training, he served as a classified civil servant until 1986, thereafter he completed his training as a civil servant. He worked in the field until 1990, after which he switched to the school department of the BPD, where he worked as a teacher for prospective police officers until 1995. In the meantime, Goldgruber also completed a law degree , which he obtained in 1994 with his graduation as a Mag. Iur. completed. On the basis of this degree, Goldgruber was able to move to the Donaustadt District Police Department as security officer in 1995 , from where he moved to the Währing District Police Department as main security officer in 1998 . In 1999 he already held the position of Head of Unit in the Office for Legal Issues and Technical Supervision. In 2001 he became head of the special investigation office , which he led until the end of 2001. At the beginning of 2002 Goldgruber was promoted to head of the security and administrative police department of the BPD Vienna. After the security authorities were restructured in 2012 , he became head of the Office for Quality Assurance, an activity that he held until his appointment as Secretary General on December 18, 2017. Goldgruber has completed the knowledge management certificate course and the public management diploma course as further training.

After the Ibiza affair became known in May 2019, Interior Minister Herbert Kickl nominated Peter Goldgruber as Director General for Public Security . However, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen announced on May 20 that he would refuse to sign the appointment of Peter Goldgruber as Director General for Public Security in order not to prejudice a new federal government in personnel matters. With the dismissal of Federal Interior Minister Herbert Kickl on May 22, 2019, Peter Goldgruber was also stepped down from his position as Secretary General in the BM.I. dismiss.

At the beginning of January 2020 it was announced that Helmut Tomac would succeed him as Secretary General in the Ministry of the Interior under Minister Karl Nehammer .

Political career

Peter Goldgruber is a founding member of the FPÖ-related free executive union, the later Action Group for Independent and Freedom Party (AUF) and was an advisor to the Wiener Stadt-FPÖ.

BAT affair

One point of criticism is directed at Goldgruber's role in the BVT affair. The General Secretary of the Ministry of Justice Christian Pilnacek said on March 9, 2018 in the news program " Zeit im Bild " that Goldgruber was involved in the decision to use the intervention group against street crime (EGS) instead of the Cobra to support the house searches at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Use Counter Terrorism (BAT) . The EGS is headed by Goldgruber's FPÖ party colleague Wolfgang Preiszler. In October 2018 it was announced that Goldgruber wanted information about which fraternities were observed by the BVT from 2012 to 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CV Peter Goldgruber , on bmi.gv.at.
  2. ↑ www.meineabektiven.at - Mag. Peter Goldgruber
  3. ↑ Kickl-Mann Goldgruber becomes General Director for Public Security . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ BMI website: Peter Goldgruber appointed General Director for Public Security ( Memento from May 21, 2019 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Kickl upgrades Goldgruber, Van der Bellen takes a sideways position . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.
  6. ^ Tomac becomes Secretary General in the Ministry of the Interior. In: ORF.at . January 4, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ dominik.schreiber, kid.moechel: Analysis: On the way to the "blue" police . ( kurier.at [accessed on November 8, 2018]).
  8. ↑ AustriaTV: Interview with Pilnacek on the protection of the constitution | ZIB2 09.03.2018. March 9, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Street dealers , sauna affair, BVT: What does the EGS do? In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on April 25, 2018]).
  10. ↑ DerStandard: Goldgruber wanted to know how fraternities are investigated
personal data
SURNAME Goldgruber, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian police officer, Secretary General in the Federal Ministry of the Interior
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wegscheid , Styria