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Kreisky, Bruno (1911–90) |
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Austrian socialist politician, diplomat, and statesman. On returning to Austria from war exile in Sweden, Kreisky was sent back to serve at the Austrian legation in Stockholm, where he remained from 1947 until 1950. In 1951 he joined the Foreign Affairs Department of the Chancellery in Vienna, and remained there until elected to the National Assembly at the beginning of 1956. In 1959 he became chair of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ). In the same year he was appointed foreign minister and secured the upgrading of the Foreign Affairs Department to a cabinet ministry in its own right. He remained foreign minister until 1966. In 1967 he was elected leader of the SPÖ and in 1970 chancellor of Austria. He held both positions until his retirement in 1983. Pursuing a policy of ‘active neutrality’ abroad, Kreisky was a highly regarded mediator and without doubt one of the most gifted statesmen of the second half of the twentieth century. |
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