Chairman
The first FPO party leader is Anton Reinthaller, a former Nazi Minister of Agriculture and SS officer, he had been asked by OVP Chancellor Julius Raab to take over the movement rather than let it be led by a more socialist-leaning group
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1956 in Austria
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Chairman
The FPO is founded as the successor to the short-lived Federation of Independents (VdU), which had been founded seven years earlier. The first FPO party leader is Anton Reinthaller, a former Nazi Minister of Agriculture and SS officer, he had been asked by OVP Chancellor Julius Raab to take over the movement rather than let it be led by a more socialist-leaning group. Appointed Chairman of the FPO
Election
Kreisky is elected to the Austrian Parliament, the Nationalrat as a Socialist
Return to Vienna Professorship
Returns to Vienna to take an honoured university position and resume teaching in the city where his scientific career began.
The Legend of the Baal-Shem
Publication of "The Legend of the Baal-Shem"
Vienna Quantum Mechanics Lectures
Resumes university teaching in Vienna and presents lectures on quantum mechanics, statistical physics and the conceptual foundations of modern physics.
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