The Kreisky Era - A Golden Age?
02 Kreisky

“We will master the future.” The slogan from Kreisky‘s election campaign ca. 1970

With a rare decade of one party vote, the ‘Sun Chancellor’ offered Austria security made possible by growing prosperity

01/07/2010
John Hodgshon

Full employment, a solid social state, an influential foreign policy and a ‘Sun-King’ chancellor who appeared to be an unbeatable. These are the images which are called up when you speak to Austrians about the time when Bruno Kreisky was Chancellor of Austria (1970-1983).

Even the FPÖ, a party not well-known for their love of socialists, claimed once in a manifesto to want to continue Kreisky’s policy of full employment. Clearly, people from across the whole political spectrum look back on the Kreisky Era as a ‘golden age’.

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