Politicians & Manager Herbert Alois Kraus (1911-2008): 2 Letters Wien 1964 &

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About Herbert Alois Kraus (Source: wikipedia):

Herbert Alois Kraus (*18. November 1911 in Zagreb; † 3. September 2008 in Vienna) was an Austrian journalist, politician, manager and non-fiction author.

Life and work: Herbert Alois Kraus grew up in Tyrol, attended elementary school in Hall in Tirol, then high school in Brixen for three years and graduated from Stella Matutina in Feldkirch in 1930. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of World Trade in Vienna in 1934. He then worked as a court master and tutor in Czechoslovakia and Poland. In 1936 he founded a small chemical business in Vienna and in 1938 he worked as a business journalist. He was an editor at the Neue Wiener Journal until 1939, then a correspondent for the Südost-Echos until 1941. He did his military service from 1941 to 1945, first at the Wehrmacht High Command, evaluating economic intelligence coming in from the Soviet Union, and then in the South Economic Inspectorate in Ukraine. Because of critical reports, court-martial proceedings were initiated against him, which ended with an acquittal in October 1944. In the spring of 1945 he fled west from the Caucasus region and saw the end of the war in Mondsee. He then found quarters with his brother-in-law in the city of Salzburg and tried in vain to found a newspaper with the US military command in Salzburg. He then worked for the Austrian Kurier, which was absorbed into the Salzburger Nachrichten in June 1945. At the beginning of 1946 he founded the Austrian Research Institute for Economics and Politics and acted as editor of the magazine Reports and Information, which primarily dealt with political and economic issues and from 1947 took a very critical stance on the Austrian National Socialist Law (Prohibition Law 1947).

In 1949, together with Viktor Reimann, he founded the Association of Independents (VdU), of which he was federal chairman until 1952. The VdU ran for the first time in the second free National Council elections in 1949 and won 11.7% of the vote. Kraus entered parliament with 15 other VdU representatives and became club chairman. When the Freedom Party of Austria was founded in 1955 as a successor organization to the VdU, Kraus did not join the new party and left parliament after the 1956 National Council election. After that, he did not appear politically for a long time until he became president (until 1993) of the “Liberal Club” in Vienna in 1978.

After leaving politics, Kraus went into the private sector and founded Donau-Finanz GesmbH & Co. KG in 1957 together with Hans Priebsch and Hans von Behr, of which he became managing partner in 1959.

In his 1990 book “Greater Europe”. A confederation from the Atlantic to Vladivostok, Kraus represents the vision of a Greater Europe with the inclusion of Russia, a “confederation of European states from the Atlantic to Vladivostok.” He argues that the integration of Russia would free Western Europe from the fear of a war with Russia, and that the connection this large Russian market would bring with it a decades-long boom.

In his 2003 book Europe United with Russia. A vision for the 21st century Century, Kraus is of the opinion that in the 21st In the 19th century, the era of nation states would be replaced by a period of continental unification. He advocates the creation of a Greater European Confederation, which should consist of the 27 EU members, Allen the successor states of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union as well as Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. The purpose of this confederation of states is to make Western Europe an equal partner of the USA and thus to “bring the world to an orderly diversity of power positions and thus the generally desired multipolarity.” The association is intended to guarantee peace between the member states and a constitutional and military one Union that is designed according to the principle of subsidiarity. The national armed forces are to be replaced by a greater European continental army.

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Russia 1941. People, culture and economy. Southeast Echo, Vienna 1942

Austria between 1945 and 1955. Series of publications by the Freedom Educational Organization, Vienna 1979

“Intolerable objectivity.” Political memories 1917 to 1987. Amalthea, Vienna, Munich 1988

“Greater Europe”. A confederation from the Atlantic to Vladivostok. Langen Müller, Munich 1990

Together with Gergana Schulak: Europe united with Russia. A vision for the 21st century Century. Molden, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85485-091-3