Scholten, Rudolf#

b. Vienna, Nov. 3, 1955, law graduate and politician (Austrian Social Democratic Party, SPOe). 1986-988 secretary to Federal Chancellor F. Vranitzky, 1988-1990 General Secretary of the Austrian Federal Theatre Association, 1990-1994 Minister of Education and the Arts, 1994-1997 Minister of Science, Research and the Arts, then Science, Transport and the Arts; since 1997 member of the board of the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank.