Encyclopedia on Austrian Contemporary History

1848: Austria’s First Basic Law: The Pillersdorf Constitution

Dieter A. Binder

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1924: Radio Communication Company Ltd. (RAVAG)

Andrea Strutz

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1943: The Moscow Declaration

Call for resistance and basis of the "victim thesis"

Helmut Konrad

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1945: Reconstruction

Monika Stromberger

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1945: “Denazification”

Short phase of measures against former NSDAP members

Herwig Czech

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1945–1955: The Red-White-Red Broadcaster

Béla Rásky

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1947: The Prohibition Act (“Verbotsgesetz“)

Sebastian M. Spitra

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1948: The Marshall Plan

Hans Petschar

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1949: Tour d‘Autriche (Tour of Austria)

Matthias Marschik

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1952: “1. April 2000” (Sci-Fi Film)

Eva Blimlinger

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1959: The Ybbs-Persenbeug Power Plant

Béla Rásky

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1954: The Era of Heimatfilme (Homeland Films)

Monika Stromberger

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1955: Storage Power Plant Kaprun

Béla Rásky

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1956: The Hungarian Revolution

Béla Rásky

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1959: Startup Financing of the Kronenzeitung (Newspaper)

Opaque Methods surrounding the founding of a newspaper

Helmut Konrad

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1971: The Homebuilder Boom

Monika Stromberger

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1961: Social Partnership (The Raab-Olah Agreement)

Helmut Konrad

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1964: Labour Migration / “Guest Workers”

The idea of "guest workers" emerges

Dirk Rupnow

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1970ies: The Guest Worker Route

Controversial holiday route

Manfred Pfaffenthaler

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1967: The Creation of Ö1, Ö2 and Ö3

New radio stations are created

Andrea Strutz

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1975: Introduction of Civil Service

An alternative to military service

Wolfgang Schellenbacher

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1975: The University Organisation Act

Richard Lein

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1974–1978: Protests and Referendum Against the Zwentendorf Nuclear Power Plant

Austria votes against nuclear power

Oliver Rathkolb

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1983: Occupation of the Hainburger Au

Sophie Gerber

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1995: Austria’s Entry to the EU

After intensive debates and many years of membership negotiations

Michael Gehler

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1995: Antenne Steiermark – The First Commercial Radio Station

Andrea Strutz

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2011: Road Sign Agreement

Helmut Konrad

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The Cathedral of St. Stephans and its “Pummerin” Bell: Career of two National Icons

How to reconstruct a roof and which coat of arms to chose

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