Bruno Kreisky (22 January 1911 - 29 July 1990), Austrian politician, the first Jewish Chancellor of Austria (1970 - 1983), was born in Vienna, the son of a clothing manufacturer.
Kreisky was elected to the Party Executive along with BrunoPittermann, Felix Slavik, and Franz Olah, and thus became a member of the central leadership body of the party.
In 1976 the Bruno Kreisky Foundation for Outstanding Achievements in the Area of Human Rights was founded to mark Kreisky's 65th birthday.
The Bruno Kreisky Archives Foundation is established by Karl Kahane, a private friend of Krieksys, with the goal of the most comprehensive possible safeguarding, indexing, and analysis of written documentation as well as audiovisual sources related to Bruno Kreiskys activity as a politician, diplomat, and statesman from the 1930s onward.
Stella Klein-Löw: Bruno Kreisky: Ein Porträt in Worten, Wien 1983.
Gabriele Bernadette Waldner: Bruno Kreisky, Medienstar: Zur Bedeutung von Kalkül und Intuition in der politischen Kommunikation, Wien 1995.