Kurt Waldheim
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Died when: 88 years 175 days (1061 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Kurt Josef Waldheim (German: [ˈkʰʊɐ̯t ˈvalthaɪm]; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat.
Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992.While he was running for the latter office in the 1986 election, the revelation of his service in Greece and Yugoslavia, as an intelligence officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II, raised international controversy.
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