Karl Renner
Anti-Semitism was widespread even in the highest government offices. As with Karl Renner. The politician whom Emperor Karl I rejected as prime minister, who became chancellor after 1918, welcomed Austria's annexation to the German Reich in 1938 and was again at the head of the state after 1945, stood out before and after the war due to anti-Semitism. Even after the Nazi terror regarding Jewish returnees and concentration camp survivors. Marko Feingold, survivor of the concentration camp and president of the Salzburg Jewish Community, stated in 2013: "Karl Renner, after all the first Federal President of the Second Republic, had long been known in the party as an anti-Semite. He didn't want us concentration campers in Vienna after the war and he also frankly said that Austria would not give anything back to them." Even today in a united Europe and after a precise scientific analysis of the Nazi crimes, there are still countless streets in Austria named after Dr. Karl Renner, and Karl Renner is defended in large numbers. Even today the state awards a Karl Renner Prize.