!!!Figl, Leopold

Figl, Leopold, b. Rust im Tullnerfeld (Lower Austria), Oct. 2, 1902, 
d. Vienna, May 9, 1965, agricultural engineer and politician (Austrian 
People's Party, OeVP), 1934-1938 director of the Lower Austrian 
Farmers' Federation, 1938-1943 detention in the Dachau concentration 
camp, 1944/45 detention in the Mauthausen concentration camp, 1945 
co-founder of the Austrian People's Party (OeVP), 1945-1952 federal 
chairman of the  Oesterreichische Volkspartei (OeVP), 1945 
Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria and Staatssekretaer during the 
provisional government under Renner, 1945-1953 Federal Chancellor, 
1953-1959 Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1959-1962 First 
President of the Nationalrat, 1962-1965 Landeshauptmann of Lower 
Austria. popular politician highly esteemed for his successful efforts 
after 1945 to achieve national unity, economic reconstruction and 
Austria's independence. Although he advocated a policy of political 
co-operation among all parties, he had to resign as Federal Chancellor 
in 1953 after criticism within his own party for his readiness to make 
compromises with the coalition partner (Austrian Social Democratic 
Party, SPOe). As Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs he signed the  
State Treaty in 1955.

!Literature
E. Trost, Figl von Oesterreich, %%sup 6/%1992; S. 
Seltenreich, L. F., Dokumentation einer Erinnerung, 3 vols., 
1985-1987; P. Pelinka, Oe. Kanzler. Von L. F. bis W. Schuessel, 2000.



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