Julius Raab

Julius Raab
Raab in 1961
Chancellor of Austria
In office
2 April 1953  11 April 1961
PresidentTheodor Körner
Adolf Schärf
Vice-ChancellorAdolf Schärf
Bruno Pittermann
Preceded byLeopold Figl
Succeeded byAlfons Gorbach
President of the Federal Chamber of Commerce
In office
26 May 1961  8 January 1964
Preceded byFranz Dworak
Succeeded byRudolf Sallinger
In office
10 December 1946  18 April 1953
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byFranz Dworak
Minister for Public Buildings, Economic Transition and Reconstruction
In office
27 April 1945  20 December 1945
ChancellorKarl Renner
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Minister of Commerce and Transport
In office
16 February 1938  11 March 1938
ChancellorKurt Schuschnigg
Preceded byWilhelm Taucher
Succeeded byHans Fischböck
Personal details
Born(1891-11-29)29 November 1891
Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary
Died8 January 1964(1964-01-08) (aged 72)
Vienna, Austria
Political partyPeople's Party (1945–1964)
Other political
affiliations
Christian Social Party (1927–1934)
Fatherland Front (1934–1938)
Alma materVienna University of Technology
ProfessionCivil engineer

Julius Raab (29 November 1891 – 8 January 1964) was a conservative Austrian politician who served as Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961. Raab steered Allied-occupied Austria to independence, when he negotiated and signed the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. In internal politics Raab stood for a pragmatic "social partnership" and the "Grand coalition" of Austrian Conservatives and Social Democrats.