Kurt Josef Waldheim ( zvuk [ˈkʊɐ̯t ˈvaldhaɪm]; 21. prosince 1918 Sankt Andrä-Wördern – 14. června 2007 Vídeň) [1 ] byl rakouský právník, konzervativní diplomat, čtvrtý generální tajemník OSN a devátý prezident Rakouska (v letech 1986–1992).
Kurt Waldheim, Austrian diplomat and statesman who served as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations (1972–81). He later was president of Austria from 1986 to 1992, and his term was marred by a scandal involving his work with…
Last week, former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim died at the age of 88. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure.
Kurt Waldheim, who died yesterday aged 88, was Secretary-General of the United Nations for 10 years; later he was elected President of Austria, even though details of his wartime participation in the barbarous Nazi occupation of the Balkans…
Former U.N. chief and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, whose career was tainted by disclosures of his Nazi past, was buried in a state funeral on Saturday.
Vynikající diplomat, který se vypracoval na generálního tajemníka OSN – a také člověk, na kterém ulpělo podezření, že se podílel na nacistických zločinech na Balkánu. To byl Kurt Waldheim.
14. 6. 2008Vídeň - Kurt Waldheim byl na počátku kariéry obratným diplomatem a dotáhl to až na ministra zahraničí Rakouska nebo šéfa OSN. V roce 1986 se stal prezidentem, ale jeho nástup do úřadu poznamenala aféra vyvolaná odhalením, že za druhé…