Federal capital as a center of power? Even the Chancellor is no longer a Viennese – Diepresse.com
In the SPÖ, the red Vienna was the measure of all things for a long time – but that has changed. The situation in the other parties is similar to ambivalent.
L’utriche, c’est ce qui remains, ”said French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau after the peace negotiations in St. Germain. Austria is what is left. The purely German -language part of the Habsburg monarchy. With the capital of Vienna, the metropolis of a multinated state, in relation too large for the now small country. The“ water head ”was born.
Politically, Vienna shaped the country from now on like before. The red Vienna of the interwar period became style -building for social democracy in the country. Karl Lueger, the Viennese mayor, founded the Christian Social Party, which later opened in the ÖVP. With Cajetan Felder, the liberal or freedom -based camp also provided an important mayor of the city of Vienna. For the Greens created 100 years later, Vienna became her biotope par excellence. They also ruled for ten years. And with the Neos, her Vice Mayor, Christoph Return, has just moved to federal politics as Minister of Education.
However: Vienna was also more relevant to federal politics. Even the Chancellor is no longer a Viennese. But Wiener Neustädter. In front of Christian Stocker, all Chancellors were up to Fred Sinowatz from Vienna or lived here.
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