{"id":2587,"date":"2018-10-03T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/zum-geburtstag-von-dr-franz-vranitzky"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:30:53","slug":"on-the-birthday-of-dr-franz-vranitzky","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/zum-geburtstag-von-dr-franz-vranitzky","title":{"rendered":"On the birthday of Dr Franz Vranitzky"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\"Franz Vranitzky was the last Austrian Federal Chancellor who did not cause me any anxiety. He possessed a sovereignty in his actions and in his clever, well thought-out preparations for these actions, which led to many good results in a calm and purposeful manner. In every important political sector, he was characterised by minimum standards which, to my knowledge, he never fell short of.\"<\/h1>\n<p>With this \"Memory Splinter on Franz Vranitzky\" by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FanpageAndreHeller\/?__tn__=%2CdK%2AF-R&amp;eid=ARAA1G4BH4jbvqmEJGuKq_iZkOWRkb9zSfBkfDQrd7epoxxVquNqF4DROO2DlDZtL2GmxLjj7IykhwYO\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=465379326826265&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK%2AF-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARAA1G4BH4jbvqmEJGuKq_iZkOWRkb9zSfBkfDQrd7epoxxVquNqF4DROO2DlDZtL2GmxLjj7IykhwYO%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3Anull%2C%22groups_location%22%3Anull%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Andr\u00e9 Heller<\/a>\u00a0We would like to congratulate our founding and honorary president, former Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria and honorary citizen of the City of Vienna, on his birthday!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2588,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2587","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zum Geburtstag von Dr. Franz Vranitzky - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/on-the-birthday-of-dr-franz-vranitzky\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zum Geburtstag von Dr. Franz Vranitzky - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Franz Vranitzky war der letzte \u00f6sterreichische Bundeskanzler, der mir keine Bangigkeit bereitete. 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