Biography

Gerald Grosz is an Austrian columnist, author and former 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. He is considering a non-party candidacy in the 2022 federal presidential election.

Gerald Grosz attended elementary and secondary school as well as the commercial academy in Deutschlandsberg in western Styria. In 1992, he joined Jörg Haider's FPÖ and the Ring Freiheitlicher Jugend (RFJ). From 1993 to 1996, he was the district chairman of the RFJ in his home district of Deutschlandsberg. Subsequently, he acted as managing 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 to the then National Council members Beate Hartinger and Herbert Haupt. From October 2000 to January 2005, Grosz was press spokesman in the cabinet of Social Affairs Minister and then Vice-Chancellor Herbert Haupt; after Haupt's departure, he worked in the same capacity for then State Secretary Sigisbert Dolinschek until early 2007. Between 2004 and 2005, Grosz was once again FPÖ city party chairman in his home municipality of Deutschlandsberg.
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