Leopold Figl

Austria's interwar Christian Social Party had ended in Engelbert Dollfuss's dictatorship and a brief civil war with the socialists. Figl, a farmers' leader who survived Dachau, helped found the People's Party in 1945 to break with that past, and as chancellor governed in a grand coalition with the Socialists, the start of Austria's "social partnership" between employers and unions. As foreign minister he signed the 1955 State Treaty that ended the four-power occupation.