Viktor Klima

Viktor Klima (born 4 June 1947), a Social Democratic Austrian politician, was Federal Chancellor of Austria (Bundeskanzler) from 1997 till his resignation in 2000. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... The Chancellor of Austria (in German: Bundeskanzler) is the head of government in Austria. ... Bundeskanzler (Federal Chancellor) is the formal title in German for: The head of the German federal government: Chancellor of Germany The head of the Austrian federal government: Chancellor of Austria A Swiss federal government official: List of Federal Chancellors of Switzerland The female version of the title is Bundeskanzlerin. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Born in Schwechat, Lower Austria, Klima started working for the OMV oil company in 1969 and remained with the company up to the beginning of his political career in 1992, in his later years serving as a member of their management board. Although Klima was then unknown to the majority of Austrians, in 1992 Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky made him Minister of Transportation and Nationalised Industry, a position Klima held till 1996, when he became Minister of Finance for a year. Schwechat is a city on the south-eastern outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna. ... Map of Lower Austria showing districts and the four quarters (Waldviertel in green, Weinviertel in red, Mostviertel in yellow and Industrieviertel in blue) Lower Austria (de: Niederösterreich) is one of the nine states or Bundesländer in Austria. ... // History OMV is Austrias largest oil-producing, refining and gas-station operating company. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Franz Vranitzky ~1990, Austrian Chancellor 1986-96. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

In 1997, upon Vranitzky's resignation, Klima was sworn in as Federal Chancellor of Austria, having renewed the grand coalition between his own party (SPÖ) and the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), with Wolfgang Schüssel serving as his Vice-Chancellor. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ) is a political party in Austria. ... The Austrian Peoples Party (de:Österreichische Volkspartei, or ÖVP) is an Austrian political party. ... The Austrian Peoples Party or Österreichische Volkspartei is an Austrian political party. ... Wolfgang Schüssel Wolfgang Schüssel (born on June 7, 1945 in Vienna, Austria) is a Christian Democratic Austrian politician. ...

Probably influenced by other European leaders such as Tony Blair, under Klima's premiership the Austrian Social Democrats altogether renounced their allegiance to Marxism and thus to their own political roots and very clearly continued their move from the political left towards the centre. For example, further privatisations took place, and several public services that had been subsumed under the policies of the welfare state were tentatively reduced. As a consequence, a high percentage of the party's traditional working class clientèle, dissatisfied with Klima and his party, left to support Jörg Haider's right-wing Freedom Party. However, just as his predecessor Vranitzky, Klima repeatedly and publicly announced that under no circumstances was he prepared to enter into a coalition with Haider's party. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1], known as Tony Blair, is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament for the constituency of Sedgefield in North... Marxism refers to the philosophy and social theory based on Karl Marxs work on one hand, and to the political practice based on Marxist theory on the other hand (namely, parts of the First International during Marxs time, communist parties and later states). ... Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or — especially in India — disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership. ... It has been suggested that Welfare capitalism be merged into this article or section. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... Jörg Haider in Carinthia (promotional photo) Jörg Haider (born 26 January 1950) is an Austrian politician. ... The Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, abbreviated to FPÖ) is an Austrian political party usually associated with the name of Jörg Haider. ...

Following the elections of 1999, Viktor Klima stepped down in February 2000 and was succeeded by Schüssel, who formed a coalition government with the Freedom Party. A few weeks later Klima took up a senior management position with Volkswagen in Argentina. He at the same time gave up his post as party chairman of the SPÖ, which he had also held since 1997, and was succeeded in this capacity by Alfred Gusenbauer, the new leader of the opposition. In Austria, the legislative election of October 3, 1999 (elections for the National Council of Austria) caused a major upheaval in the political landscape. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Wolfgang Schüssel Wolfgang Schüssel (born on June 7, 1945 in Vienna, Austria) is a Christian Democratic Austrian politician. ... Volkswagen (Ger. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alfred Gusenbauer (born February 8, 1960) has been the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) since 2000. ...

Klima has been married twice. He has a grown-up son by his first marriage. His second wife, from whom he is separated, is primary school teacher-turned-socialite Sonja Klima. With his new girl-friend he has another child. Klima used to be a heavy smoker and was probably one of the last politicians who smoked in public. During his premiership he was even hospitalized due to a nicotine-related illness. The cigarette is the most common method of smoking tobacco. ... Nicotine is an alkaloid found in the nightshade family of plants (Solanaceae), predominantly in tobacco, and in lower quantities in tomato, potato, eggplant (aubergine), and green pepper. ...