Peter Goldgruber

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Peter Goldgruber
General Secretary of the Interior
In office
18 December 2017 – 21 May 2019
MinisterHerbert Kickl
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byVacant
Personal details
Born (1960-10-20) 20 October 1960 (age 63)
Austria
Political partyIndependent

Peter Goldgruber (born 20 October 1960) is Austrian functionary who served as the first General Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior. He assumed his office after the first Kurz government was sworn in. Following the Ibiza affair, Interior Minister Kickl appointed Goldgruber acting Director General for the Public Security.[1]

Goldgruber is the suspected leak in warning alt right activist Martin Sellner before Austrian police raided his home in March 2019,[2] so he had enough time to delete his friendly emails with terrorist Brenton Tarrant, perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings, 40 minutes before the raid; unusually, police waited 12 minutes for him to open the door. Sellner apparently had been warned and managed to delete all emails .[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Generalsekretär". www.bmi.gv.at.
  2. ^ "Justiz ermittelt, ob Identitären-Chef Sellner vor Razzia gewarnt wurde". Der Standard (in Austrian German). 2019-07-17. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
  3. ^ "Polizisten warteten bei Razzia zwölf Minuten, bis Sellner Tür öffnete". Der Standard (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2024-04-26. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)