Karl Renner

Karl Renner
Renner about 1905
4th President of Austria
In office 20 December 1945 – 31 December 1950
Chancellor	Leopold Figl
Preceded by	Wilhelm Miklas (1938)
Succeeded by	Theodor Körner
1st Chancellor of Austria
In office 27 April 1945 – 20 December 1945
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
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
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.