Gabriela Moser

Gabriela Moser (28 July 1954 – 12 March 2019) was an Austrian politician who was a member of the National Council for more than 20 years.

Moser in 2013

Politics

Moser, an early member of The Greens – The Green Alternative, was first elected to the city council of Linz in the 1980s.[1]

She won a seat on the National Council of Austria in the 1994 Austrian legislative election, vacated her seat briefly, and then rejoined parliament in 1997.[2] She remained a member until the Greens lost all their seats in the 2017 election.[3]

Moser was best known for her work fighting corruption. A parliamentary committee led by her investigated the Telekom affair involving Telekom Austria, and the Tetron affair which concerned the creation of a radio system for emergency services. Moser helped uncover the BUWOG affair which former finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser was involved in. Moser also investigated the Skylink scandal surrounding the construction of Vienna International Airport's Terminal 3, and allegations of corruption at the Austrian Federal Railways.[4]

In 2018 Moser worked for the party academy of JETZT, a party that had split from the Greens in 2017.[2]

Personal life

Moser was born in 1954 in Linz, where she later taught German and history at a gymnasium. For environmental reasons, she did not own a car.[4] She was married to a German physicist and had no children.[1]

In 2005 she received the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria.[5]

Moser died on 12 March 2019, at the age of 64, due to an illness she had been battling for two years.[1]

References
  1. Rohrhofer, Markus (12 March 2019). "Ehemalige Grünen-Politikerin Gabriela Moser gestorben". Der Standard (in German). Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  2. "Gabriela Moser: Ex-Grünen-Politikerin ist tot". NEWS (in German). 12 March 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  3. Weißsensteiner, Nina (10 November 2017). "Mandate futsch: Wo sich die Grünen nun betätigen". Der Standard (in German). Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  4. "Grünen-Politikerin Gabriela Moser verstorben". Die Presse (in German). 12 March 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  5. "Anfragebeantwortung" [List of recipients of Austrian medals and decorations (1952–2012)] (PDF) (in German). p. 1686. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
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