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Julius Raab: Original autograph on real photo ( Foto Proell Wien 19 ). Signed with blue ink.
3,6 x 5,6 inches. Very fine condition. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Julius Raab (1891 - 1964) was a Conservative Austrian politician. He was Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961.
He was member of the Austrian Parliament from 1927 to 1934 for the Christlichsoziale Partei, nevertheless he took the Korneuburger Eid as a member of the Heimwehr in 1930 which was a manifesto against "western democratic parliamentarism". He also revealed his anti-semitism as a parliament member in 1931 when Raab famously branded the Socialist leader Otto Bauer an "insolent Jewish pig."
He was ousted after Anschluss but unlike many other political leaders escaped death or imprisonment through the help of the Lower Austrian Nazi Gauleiter, who he knew personally.
After World War II, he was one of the co-founders of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the party chairman from 1951 to 1960. Raab was the third Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961. During that time he was able to get the agreement of the Soviet Union to sign the Staatsvertrag. In 1955 Austria and the four allied powers Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States and France signed the contract. This was the guarantee for Austria's independence and the union between the individual Bundeslaender. Moreover, all the states of this confederation were obliged to remain strictly neutral.
( biography after wikipedia, many thanks ).
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