Bruno Kreisky

Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian Social Democratic politician who served as chancellor from 1970 to 1983. His governments expanded social reforms and pursued an active policy of neutrality and international mediation.

Austrian welfare state: Austria’s system of social insurance, public services, and income protections developed through legislation and social partnership. Kreisky’s governments expanded welfare provision, including family benefits and protections for workers.
Kreisky II government: Austria’s Social Democratic government led by Bruno Kreisky from 1971 to 1975. Its single-party parliamentary majority enabled a broad program of legislative reform.
February Uprising: The brief Austrian civil conflict of February 1934 between government forces and the Social Democratic Schutzbund. Its defeat preceded the political repression that shaped Kreisky’s early years.
Olof Palme: Swedish Social Democratic politician who served as prime minister from 1969 to 1976 and from 1982 to 1986. Palme and Kreisky were prominent European Social Democrats who pursued active international diplomacy.
Kurt Schuschnigg: Austrian politician who served as chancellor from 1934 until the Anschluss in 1938. Schuschnigg led an authoritarian regime that suppressed the Social Democrats Kreisky represented.
Austrian Social Democratic Party: Austria’s center-left political party, founded in 1889 and known today as the Social Democratic Party of Austria. Kreisky led the party through its first postwar period of single-party government.
Kreisky III government: Austria’s Social Democratic government led by Bruno Kreisky from 1975 to 1979. It continued reforms after the Social Democrats won another absolute majority.
Austrofascism: The authoritarian regime that ruled Austria from 1933 to 1938 and suppressed democratic political parties. Kreisky’s Social Democratic activism took place against this regime’s repression.
Willy Brandt: German Social Democratic politician who served as West German chancellor from 1969 to 1974. Brandt and Kreisky shared a generation of reformist Social Democratic leadership.
Leopold Figl: Austrian conservative politician who served as chancellor from 1945 to 1953 and helped negotiate the State Treaty. Figl’s conservative postwar leadership preceded Kreisky’s Social Democratic governments.

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