Seminar on Philosophy and Politics, University of Innsbruck, academic year 1971/72 -- Inaugural session with former Federal Chancellor Josef Klaus

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Philosophy and Politics

under the patronage of Austrian President Franz Jonas

Philosophie und Politik – Denken und Handeln

Inaugural session with Dr. Josef Klaus, former Federal Chancellor of Austria

University of Innsbruck, Emperor Leopold Hall, 19 October 1970

Hans Köchler, Acting Chairman of Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Wissenschaft und Politik (Working Group for Sciences and Politics), delivers the welcoming address.

Dr. Josef Klaus, Federal Chancellor (Prime Minister) of Austria (1964-1970), front row, right, listens to the welcoming speech of the Rector of the University of Innsbruck, Prof. Emerich Coreth, SJ. At his right: Dr. Simon Moser, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany), co-founder of the European Forum Alpbach (Austrian College Society); left: Hans Köchler, Acting Chairman of Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Wissenschaft und Politik, organizer of the Seminar; second row, left: Dr. Franz Hetzenauer, President of the Higher Regional Court for Tyrol and Vorarlberg, former Minister of Interior; center: Monsignor Josef Hammerl, Archdeacon of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck.