Josef Klaus (August 15 1910 Kötschach-Mauthen Carinthia – July 26 2001 Vienna) was an Austrian Christian/Conservative politician of the Peoples Party (ÖVP) and the Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzler) from 1964 to 1970. In 1934 graduated from law school. He married in 1936. During World War II he served in the German army in campaigns in Poland France Finland and Russia; he was captured in early 1945 and held in a POW camp.
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