SOCIALIST DETERMINATION TO REPLACE RAUSEHER

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• Document Release Date: December 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 3, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INT. EW WGENCE REPORT
CC, U TRY Austria
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i The Austrian Socialists are determined to replace ;tats Secretary Frans
Iauscher beeause of his failure to keep Peter Kraui.and, Minister for Pro- 25X1 A6a
party Control. and 0monomie Planning, from over-conservatism. Ce vet:
Nauscher is regardbd as no match for the dyzandic Zrando However.. 4au:src6er
25X1A6a received iwdoquata support from his party, whist: tolerated Krauiand's policies
in order to preserve a snoothlly operating coalitioug Co at: Accord-
ing to a report of 29 August 1946, .Itauseher was ousted from the part' Bader-.
ship because of his failure to malice the nationalization law a success, but was
to be givear another chance to prove himself before being ra ,uested to resign
the Socialists.)
2. Karl 1aldbrunmer, recently replaced as Minister to 1:"oscow, is the fide who
has been mentioned most frequently as a repl ace u:rt for Rauschsr; but, since
~ aldbruriner was elected party secretary and economic spokesman, the Social-
ists feel he. now is too b for the jobs At the n.onent, Karl `antler, max-
ber of the w4eerat for der Austria and President of the. Vieraaa Chz er
of labor, is the la-:idinr candidate. He is also being considered as the 25X1A6a
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antler has long been active in the trade union movement. 25X1A6a
mat: Atantler was Secretary of the Free Trade Union of Austrian Foo workers
px .Or to 1934 and has been Chairn of the union since the liberation.) He
was iaprisoned by the Sch chnigg governsent in 1937. and again b
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in 19390 He remained in Buchenwald until 1945. He is generally regarded
as quiet, serious, r of consider Wole ability and is remenberod for his
intelligent handling of the left--tding Trade Unionists last year, when he
diverted their clast:oring for strikes.
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