Werner Groiß (born 6 December 1967 in
Gars am Kamp
Gars am Kamp is a market town at the Kamp river ( Kamptal) in the district of Horn, region Waldviertel in the Austrian state Lower Austria with 3,542 inhabitants (2016).
History
Gars was between 1075 - 1095, during the reign of the House of Babe ...
) is an
Austria
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n politician who has been a Member of the
National Council for the
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) from 2013 to 2017. He also works as a
Statutory auditor
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World usage
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,
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and
Entrepreneur
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.
Career
Werner Groiß was a founding member and chairman of the young ÖVP Gars am Kamp between 1986 and 1988, and in 2000 he became the vice chairman of the ÖVP Gars am Kamp. He was active as a long-standing (managing) councilor in Gars am Kamp until 2019.
In 2013, Werner Groiß succeeded the outgoing
Günter Stummvoll as National Councilor for the
Waldviertel
The (Forest Quarter; Central Bavarian: ) is the northwestern region of the northeast Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is bounded to the south by the Danube, to the southwest by Upper Austria, to the northwest and the north by the Czech Rep ...
constituency. In 2016, he succeeded
Andreas Zakostelsky as finance spokesman for the ÖVP and chairman of parliamentary financial administration
www.parlament.gv.at
/ref> Groiß ended his parliamentary career in December 2017.
Furthermore, Groiß is the spokesman for the Economic Association and the Wirtschaftskammer Waldviertel.
Private
Andrea Scherney, a Paralympic athlete, is one of his cousin's.
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References
1967 births
Living people
Members of the National Council (Austria)
Austrian People's Party politicians
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