The board of WOW-Europe elected Wolfgang Pischinger as new president of WOW-Europe. He succeeds Günther Trausznitz who had been president from 2004 until 2018. Before being elected as president of WOW-Europe he had been a board-member of WOW-Europe since January 2012.
In Austria Wolfgang has been Member of Supervisory Board (Employee Representatives) of Oberbank AG since January 28, 1993. In 2001 he became president of this Supervisory Board. Since 2010 he is president of the FCG/GPA-djp and member of the Presidium. In June 2018 he also became a member of the board of the ÖGB, the Austrian Trade union Confederation. Wolfgang is married and has two daughters. He lives in the city of Linz. Wolfang will serve as president at least until the next congress in 2021. The congress will the have the opportunity to formally elect him.
