Karl Renner | |
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![]() Renner about 1905
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4th President of Austria | |
In office 20 December 1945 – 31 December 1950 |
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Chancellor | Leopold Figl |
Preceded by | Wilhelm Miklas (1938) |
Succeeded by | Theodor Körner |
1st Chancellor of Austria | |
In office 27 April 1945 – 20 December 1945 |
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Deputy |
Leopold Figl Johann Koplenig Adolf Schärf |
Preceded by | Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1938) |
Succeeded by | Leopold Figl |
In office 21 October 1919 – 7 July 1920 |
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President | Karl Seitz |
Deputy | Jodok Fink |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Michael Mayr |
Chancellor of German-Austria | |
In office 30 October 1918 – 21 October 1919 |
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President | Karl Seitz |
Deputy | Jodok Fink |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 December 1870 Dolní Dunajovice, Austria-Hungary (Now Czech Republic) |
Died | 31 December 1950 (aged 80) Vienna, Austria |
Political party | Socialist Party |
Spouse(s) | Luise |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
*State Chancellor **State Secretary for Foreign Affairs. |
Karl Renner (14 December 1870 – 31 December 1950) was an Austrian politician of the Socialist Party. He is called the Father of the Republic because he headed the first government in German Austria and the First Austrian Republic in 1918/19, and was once again decisive in establishing the present Second Republic after the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, becoming its first President.
Renner was born the 18th child of a German family of poor wine-growers in Unter-Tannowitz (present-day Dolní Dunajovice in the Czech Republic), then part of the Margraviate of Moravia, a crown land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because of his intelligence, he was allowed to attend a selective gymnasium in nearby Nikolsburg (Mikulov), where one of his teachers was Wilhelm Jerusalem. From 1890 to 1896 he studied law at the University of Vienna. In 1895 he was one of the founding members of the Friends of Nature (German: Naturfreunde) organisation and created their logo.