Ernst Strasser is a former Austrian People's Party politician and Federal Minister of the Interior in Austria (2000 - 2004), and was a Member of the European Parliament (2009-2011). He resigned because of the 2011 Cash for Laws Scandal.
Strasser was Federal Minister of the Interior of Austria between 2000 and 2004.
Strasser has been the president of the Austro-Russian Friendship Society (Österreichisch-Russische Freundschaftsgesellschaft) since 2003.
Between 2005 and 2008 Strasser was Managing Partner at VCP Energy Holdings, a subsidiary of Vienna Capital Partners. He took care of "energy projects in the new EU member countries in Eastern Europe" and reportedly enjoyed a salary of 500,000 euros per year.
Like Strasser, his cabinet secretary Christoph Ulmer is also a senior member of the Austro-Russian Friendship Society and went to become Executive Director of CE-Oil Gastrading AG, an energy company owned by Vienna Capital Partners.
He led his party in the 2009 European Parliament election. He was a Member of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2011.
Oliver Weiss is a German-born, U.S.-based soccer coach, working primarily at the NCAA level. He was the head men's soccer coach at Virginia Tech from 2002 through 2009. Virginia Tech has been very successful under Weiss going 68-39-16 in six seasons. Virginia Tech made it to the national semifinals of the NCAA soccer tournament in 2007, falling 2-0 to eventual national champion Wake Forest University. Virginia Tech concluded that season with a 14-4-5 record and a number 3 national ranking.
Weiss resigned from Tech in 2009 following an NCAA infraction that resulted in eight players losing their eligibility. Weiss had loaned players money for admission fees, incorrectly believing that the loans were permissible.
Prior to coaching at Tech, Weiss was an assistant coach at North Carolina from 1999 to 2001. During that span, UNC went 54-14-1 with 3 tournament appearances. He was named the top assistant for UNC during that run. From 1996 to 1998, he served as an assistant at William & Mary, where he posted a 49-19-3 record. He also spent one year as an assistant coach at the University of New Hampshire. He played college soccer at Richmond.
Herbert Ernst Groh (27 May 1905 – 28 July 1982) was a popular Swiss tenor.
Groh was born in Lucerne and subsequently studied in Zurich and Milan. One of his teachers was Carl Beines, who also taught Richard Tauber.
He began his operatic singing career in Darmstadt in 1926, with engagements following in Frankfurt and Cologne and a successful tour of Italy in 1927, where he also began to make his first recordings using the name of Ernesto Groh. He then started to appear on German radio and devoted himself to developing a career as a recording artist - also making films, but soon giving up the stage - a career than lasted well into the LP era of the 1950s.
He died in 1982 at Norderstedt near Hamburg.
Like Marcel Wittrisch, Groh is inevitably compared to his contemporary Richard Tauber. According to Alan Blyth: "Groh . . . is fonder yet than Tauber of unwritten touches of quite exceptional delicacy, and surpasses his older coeval in sheer technical control."
A selection of Groh's recordings were released in 1990 by Pavilion Records on Pearl (GEMM CD 9419).