Josef Klaus
| Josef Klaus | |
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Chancellor Klaus in 1965
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| 16th Chancellor of Austria | |
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In office 2 April 1964 – 21 April 1970 |
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| President |
Adolf Schärf Franz Jonas |
| Deputy |
Bruno Pittermann Fritz Bock Hermann Withalm |
| Preceded by | Alfons Gorbach |
| Succeeded by | Bruno Kreisky |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 August 1910 Kötschach-Mauthen, Carinthia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 26 July 2001 (aged 90) Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Political party | ÖVP |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Josef Klaus (15 August 1910 - 26 July 2001) was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP). He served as State Governor (Landeshauptmann) of Salzburg from 1949 to 1961, as Federal Minister of Finance from 1961 to 1963 and as Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1964 to 1970.
Born in Kötschach-Mauthen, Carinthia, the son of a master baker, Klaus attended the Catholic junior seminary in Klagenfurt. He studied law at the University of Vienna, where he joined the Cartellverband of Catholic male student fraternities (Studentenverbindung). He obtained his doctorate in 1934 and worked in the legal department of the Chamber of Labour which at that time was integrated into the Austrofascist unitary trade union centres by the government of the Federal State of Austria. When the Chamber organisation finally was liquidated after the 1938 Anschluss annexation by Nazi Germany, Klaus changed to the private sector.
Klaus married in 1936. During World War II he served in the German Wehrmacht, temporarily as a staff member for General Heinz Guderian, as well as in campaigns in Poland, France, Finland and Russia. He was captured in early 1945 and held in a POW camp. After the war he worked as a lawyer in Hallein; in 1948 he became chairman of the regional ÖVP section Hallein District and pursued his political career.
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