!!!Blecha, Karl

b. Vienna, April 16, 1933, sociologist and politician (Austrian Social 
Democratic Party, SPOe). Chairman of Socialist youth and student 
organisations (VSStOe, JG), 1963-1975 head of the Institute of 
Empirical Social Research (IFES). 1976-1981 SPOe party secretary. 
1970-1983 and 1989 member of the Nationalrat, 1983-1989 Minister of 
the Interior; resigned all offices in 1989 following accusations of 
involvement in illegal arms trading ("Noricum Scandal"), acquitted in 
1993. Since 1999 president of the Pensioners' Association of the 
Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPOe).


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