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Karl Lueger was an Austrian politician,mayor of Vienna,and leader and founder of the Austrian Christian Social Party. He is credited with the transformation of the city of Vienna into a modern city. The populist and antisemitic politics of his Christian Social Party are sometimes viewed as a model for Adolf Hitler's Nazism.
Krems an der Donau is a town of 23,992 inhabitants in Austria,in the federal state of Lower Austria. It is the fifth-largest city of Lower Austria and is approximately 70 kilometres west of Vienna. Krems is a city with its own statute,and therefore it is both a municipality and a district.
Franz Josef Jonas was an Austrian politician who served as the President of Austria between 1965 and 1974.
Theodor "Teddy" Kollek was an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993,and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times,in 1969,1973,1978,1983,and 1989. After reluctantly running for a seventh term in 1993 at the age of 82,he lost to Likud candidate and future Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert.
The districts of Vienna are the 23 named city sections of Vienna,Austria,which are numbered for easy reference. They were created from 1850 onwards,when the city area was enlarged by the inclusion of surrounding communities. Although they fill a similar role,Vienna's municipal districts are not administrative districts (Bezirke) as defined by the federal constitution;Vienna is a statutory city and as such is a single administrative district in its entirety.
Michael Häupl served as mayor and governor of Vienna from 7 November 1994 until 24 May 2018. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.
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Renate Holm was a German-Austrian film actress and operatic soprano. She worked as a dentists' assistant and took private singing lessons,resulting in performances in musical films and schlager. She made her debut at the Vienna Volksoper in 1957,and moved on to the Vienna State Opera where she worked for decades. She appeared internationally and made many recordings,especially for the WDR in a series of operettas with conductor Franz Marszalek. She later worked as a voice teacher,juror at competitions,and festival manager. Her memoir was published in 2017.
Michael Ludwig is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). Since May 2018,he has been Mayor and Governor of Vienna,the capital and largest city of Austria. Since January 2018,he has also served as chairman of SPÖVienna. Prior,he was City Councillor for Housing,Construction,and Urban Renewal from January 2007 until his election as mayor. He was also Second Deputy Mayor and Governor of Vienna from March 2009 to October 2010.
In the Republic of Austria,the municipality is the administrative division encompassing a single village,town,or city. The municipality has corporate status and local self-government on the basis of parliamentary-style representative democracy:a municipal council elected through a form of party-list system enacts municipal laws,a municipal executive board and a mayor appointed by the council are in charge of municipal administration. Austria is currently partitioned into 2,095 municipalities,ranging in population from about fifty to almost two million. There is no unincorporated territory in Austria.
Feuerhalle Simmering is a crematorium with attached urn burial ground in the Simmering district of Vienna,Austria. It lies at the end of an alley,directly opposite Vienna Central Cemetery's main gate.
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