Peter Gridling

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Peter Gridling (born April 9, 1957 in Lienz ) is an Austrian civil servant . Since 2008 he has been director of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism (BVT) and thus head of the highest state protection authority in the Austrian Ministry of the Interior .

Career

Gridling began his police career when he joined the Federal Gendarmerie on April 1, 1977. Subsequently, he also served in the Gendarmerie Einsatzkommando , where he held the function of a group commander. He studied part-time law and obtained in 1988 with a thesis on the right of personal freedom the degree Master of Law (Mag. Iur.).

After completing his studies, Gridling served from 1992 to 1995 in what was then Group C ( State Police Service ) of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. In November 1995 he was appointed head of the then existing task force to combat terrorism (EBT) and represented the interests of the Austrian security authorities in the European Union and at international organizations. Finally, in 2002, Gridling became the head of counter-terrorism at Europol and thus the highest person in charge of counter-terrorism in the EU.

On March 1, 2008, Interior Minister Günther Platter appointed Gridling as the successor to Gert-René Polli as director of the BVT. He is only the second head of this authority, which was founded in 2002.

Gridling became known to a broader public in the course of the Austrian reporting on the 2011 attacks in Norway .

On February 28, 2018, the premises of the BVT and various private apartments of employees were searched by officers from the Task Force to Combat Street Crime (EGS). The reason for the house searches was an investigation by the Economic and Corruption Public Prosecutor's Office (WKStA) into alleged abuse of office. In the course of the investigation, Interior Minister Herbert Kickl is said to have withheld the reappointment of the head of the authorities Peter Gridling by the Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen or later appointed him as head of the authorities and at the same time suspended him with immediate effect until further notice. This suspension was lifted by the Federal Administrative Court on May 22, 2018 . The preliminary investigation against Gridling because of the allegation of abuse of office was discontinued at the beginning of November 2018, because the Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office had not confirmed the initial suspicion.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ONB search - The right to personal freedom: New regulations by the BVG of November 29, 1988. Accessed on November 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Christoph Zotter, Moritz Gottsauner-Wolf and Lukas Wagner: We monitored a chief supervisor (and he was grateful for it). In: NZZ Austria . December 3, 2015, accessed June 27, 2017 .
  3. ^ Andreas Wetz: Peter Gridling: Der Staatsfreund No. 1 . Article on DiePresse.com of January 24, 2015, accessed on January 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ Peter Gridling takes over the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Article on DiePresse.com of February 7, 2008, accessed December 3, 2015.
  5. ^ "Round table" of the ORF ( Memento from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Many questions unanswered. orf.at, accessed on March 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ BVT affair: Sigrid Maurer is being investigated against gridling. DerStandard.at, accessed on March 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Kickl suspends BVT boss Gridling - news.ORF.at. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  9. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Gridling's suspension in BVT affair repealed by the Federal Administrative Court . In: derStandard.at . ( Online [accessed May 22, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Investigation against BVT director Gridling discontinued DiePresse.com, November 2, 2018, accessed on November 7, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gridling, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian police officer, director of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Lienz