Rudolf Kirchschläger

Rudolf Kirchschl?ger (born March 20, 1915, died March 30, 2000) was an Austrian diplomat, politician, judge and from 1974 to 1986 Austrian president.

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Kirschl?ger was orphaned at the age of 11. He graduated from High School in Horn in 1935 with distinction and started to study law at the University of Vienna. However, after the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, he had to give up his studies. Without joining the NSDAP, which he refused to do, his scholarship was revoked and Kirchschl?ger could not finance his studies any more. Kirchschl?ger worked as a bank clerk in 1938 until he was drafted to service in the infantry of the Wehrmacht in the summer of 1939. Kirchschl?ger fought as a soldier from the very beginning of the war, first during the invasion of Poland, later on the Western Front and after 1941 against Russia on the Eastern Front (WWII).

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