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 Babenb ...

) is an

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n politician who has been a Member of the National Council for the

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(ÖVP) from 2013 to 2017. He also works as a

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and

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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 ''Waldviertel'' (; ; Central Bavarian: ; ) is the northwestern region of the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is bounded to the south by the river Danube, to the southwest by Upper Austria, to the northwest and to the north by the Czech ...

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.

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Andrea Scherney, a Paralympic athlete, is one of his cousin's.

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1967 births Living people Members of the 25th National Council (Austria) Austrian People's Party politicians {{Austria-politician-stub

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