Editing Kurt Waldheim (section)

==Diplomatic career==
After finishing his studies in law at the [[University of Vienna]] Waldheim joined the [[foreign relations of Austria|Austrian diplomatic service]] in 1945. Waldheim escaped a denazification proceedings, as Austrian governmental forces quashed it, though it would have been required because of Waldheim's memberships in the SA's  equestrian unit and in the [[National Socialist German Students' League|NSDSB]] — Nazi Student Association.<ref>Rathkolb, Oliver. 2020. Waldheim, Kurt. '''Stolberg-Wernigerode, Otto zu, 1893-1984: Neue deutsche Biographie''', Bd.: 27. Band, Vockerodt-Wettiner, Berlin, 306.</ref> Thereafter, his diplomatic career could commence.

Waldheim served as First Secretary of the Legation in Paris from 1948, and in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna from 1951 to 1956. In 1956 he was made Ambassador to Canada, returning to the Ministry in 1960, after which he became the [[Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations]] in 1964. For two years beginning in 1968, he was the [[Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs in Austria|Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs]] for the [[Austrian People's Party]], before going back in 1970 as Permanent Representative to the UN. Shortly afterward he ran in the [[1971 Austrian presidential election]], and was defeated.