Franz Jonas

President of Austria from 1965 to 1974

Franz Jonas


President of Austria
In office 9 June 1965 – 24 April 1974
Chancellor	Josef Klaus Bruno Kreisky
Preceded by	Adolf Schärf
Succeeded by	Rudolf Kirchschläger
Mayor and Governor of Vienna
In office 18 June 1951 – 9 June 1965
Preceded by	Theodor Körner
Succeeded by	Bruno Marek

Personal details
Born	(1899-10-04)4 October 1899 Floridsdorf, Austria-Hungary (present-day Vienna)
Died	24 April 1974(1974-04-24) (aged 74) Vienna, Austria
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Austria
Spouse	Margarete Jonas

Franz Josef Jonas (4 October 1899 – 24 April 1974) was an Austrian politician who served as the President of Austria between 1965 and 1974.

He was a typesetter by profession and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria. After World War II, he got involved in Viennese communal politics and was mayor of Vienna from 1951 to 1965. From 1965, he was federal president and was re-elected in 1971.

Jonas was a fervent supporter of Esperanto, and starting in 1923, became a long-time instructor of the language. His address to the 1970 World Congress of Esperanto, which was held in Vienna, was delivered in Esperanto.^[1]

In 1974, he died in office, the fourth consecutive president to do so.

In Vienna, a large tram station officially called Schottentor which was built when he was mayor is colloquially named after him (Jonas-Reindl, which translates as Jonas bowl).

In 1966, Jonas was awarded the Grand Cross of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav with Collar, and in 1969 the Pierre de Coubertin medal.^[2]

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^ Eŭropa Bulteno de Ondo de Esperanto Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Europe Bulletin of Wave of Esperanto)
^ Newsletter No. 22, Comité international olympique, Château de Vidy 1007 Lausanne, p. 402

Political offices
Preceded by Theodor Körner	Mayor and Governor of Vienna 1951–1965	Succeeded by Bruno Marek
Preceded by Adolf Schärf	President of Austria 1965–1974	Succeeded by Rudolf Kirchschläger

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