Background
BLECHA, Karl was born on April 16, 1933 in Vienna, Austria.
BLECHA, Karl was born on April 16, 1933 in Vienna, Austria.
Grammar school (classically orientated), matriculation, 1952. University of Vienna, psychology, sociology and ethnology. Kliment Ochridki University, Sofia, Doctor of Philosophy H.C.
Federal Chairman, Association of Socialist Secondary School Students, 1952-1955. Chairman, Association of Socialist Students of Austria, 195456. Member of Executive, Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria), Lower Austria, since 1964.
Federal Chairman, Young Generation, Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria), 1970-1973. Central Secretary, Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria), 1976-1981. Federal Education Chairman, Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria), since 1977.
Vice Chairman, Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria), since 1981. Full-time deputy Chairman of Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria), 1981-1983. Vice Chairman, Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria) Lower Austria, since 1983.
Member of Nationalrat for Burgenland, Lower Austria and Vienna, 1970-1983 and 1989. Minister of the Interior, 1983-1986. Vice-chairman, Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (Socialist Party of Austria).
Career consultant, Provincial Labour Exhange, Vienna. Publicity manager, Büchergilde Gutenberg. Lecturer in social science.
Managing director. Echo Advertising. Journalist on Neue Zeit (newspaper). Director, Institute of Empirical Social Research, 1963-1975.
Sociologist; member of Austrian Association of College Students.
Lower Austrian SPO (Austrian Socialist Party). Nationalrat since 1970.