(1918-12-21)21 December 1918 Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Lower Austria, Republic of German-Austria
Died
14 June 2007(2007-06-14) (aged 88) Vienna, Austria
Political party
ÖVP
Spouse
Elisabeth Ritschel
(m. 1944)
Children
3
Alma mater
Vienna Consular Academy
University of Vienna
Profession
Lawyer
diplomat
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Federal State of Austria
(1936–1937)
Nazi Germany (1941–1945)
Branch/service
Austrian Armed Forces German Army
Rank
Oberleutnant
Unit
5 Alpine Division Pusteria
Kampfgruppe West
9th Army
11th Italian Army
Army Group E
Battles/wars
World War II
Awards
Iron Cross 2nd Class
Medal of the Crown of King Zvonimir
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Kurt Josef Waldheim (German:[ˈkʰʊɐ̯tˈvalthaɪm]ⓘ; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia, and participation in Nazi atrocities, as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II, raised international controversy.[1]
^Klein, David Ian (4 June 2021). "75 years after Nuremberg, America's top Nazi-hunter looks back". The Forward. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
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Elisabeth "Sissy" Waldheim (née Ritschel; 13 April 1922 – 28 February 2017) was an Austrian political figure and the wife of KurtWaldheim, the UN Secretary-General...
Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg (German: [ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the...
were held in Austria on 4 May 1986 with a second round on 8 June 1986. KurtWaldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, endorsed by the Austrian...
conservative Austrian People's Party to run for president, he succeeded KurtWaldheim on 8 July 1992. However, in the course of his two terms of office, Klestil's...
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three-years term in office, Sinowatz resigned as Chancellor after KurtWaldheim's victory in the 1986 presidential election. Born in Neufeld an der Leitha...
Thant's term. After every candidate was vetoed in the second round, KurtWaldheim accidentally won in the third round when the United States, United Kingdom...
former Nazis regained prestige and held high posts in the new republics. KurtWaldheim, an Austrian Nazi, even held the highest post as Secretary-General of...
Secretary-General KurtWaldheim. The first audio section contains a spoken greeting in English from then-Secretary-General of the United Nations KurtWaldheim. The...
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In 1986, the election of a former Wehrmacht intelligence officer, KurtWaldheim, as federal president put Austria on the verge of international isolation...
past of former United Nations Secretary-General and Austrian President KurtWaldheim. He wrote initially for the news weekly Wochenpresse. In 1984 he was...
was signed on January 1, 1979, by United Nations Secretary General KurtWaldheim. A follow-up to the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the...
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