Buchinger, Rudolf#
b. Staasdorf (in the municipality of Tulln an der Donau in the province of Lower Austria), March 3, 1879, d. Tulln an der Donau, Feb. 20, 1950, farmer and politician (Christian Socialist, OeVP). Pioneered agricultural cooperatives; 1931-1938 chairman of the Austrian Raiffeisenverband; 1922-1926 Minister and 1945 Staatssekretaer of Agriculture and Forestry, then senior official at the Austrian National Bank.