Austrian politician and diplomat, president 198692. He was secretary general of the United Nations 197281, having been Austria's representative there 196468 and 197071.
He was elected president in spite of revelations that during World War II he had been an intelligence officer in an army unit responsible for transporting Jews to death camps. His election therefore led to some diplomatic isolation of Austria, and in 1991 he announced that he would not run for re-election.
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