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After the failed republic of 1918, the post-1945 one became a success story. How Austria got out of trouble again: diligently, willing to compromise, luck and help from abroad.
Using the person Leopold Figl, the recent history of this country, the change in thought and action, can be told quite well. Born in 1902 in Austria-Hungary, in Tullnerfeld in Lower Austria. Son of Farmer, eight siblings, member of the conservative Catholic cartel association while still in school.
Senior farmer union official in the First Republic. During the Austro-fascist corporate state, member of the Federal Economic Council and Lower Austrian leader of the Ostmärkische Sturmscharen, a paramilitary organization. Since 1937 President of the Austrian Reichsbauernbund.
When soldiers from Nazi Germany entered, Leopold Figl was arrested on March 12, 1938 and taken to the Dachau concentration camp. He was beaten, tortured and taken into dark custody, not least because he had used the word “Austria” in the concentration camp.
