Engineers Dr. Karl Gruber (* 3. May 1909 in Innsbruck, "† 1 February 1995 in Innsbruck) was a Austrian politician and diplomat.

During the Second World War Gruber worked as a trained electrical engineer in Berlin in a laboratory of the armaments industry and tried by consciously wrong constructions the development there to retard. Already during the war Gruber was active in various resistance cells in Germany, led in Berlin the organization "rose garden", which was in close co-operation with the Austrian group of O5. One of its main objectives always applied for attaching contacts with the allied foreign country. Against end of war Gruber returned to Austria, where he transferred the line of the Tiroler resistance movement in the spring 1945 and it succeeded to it to release Innsbruck as only city of entire Nazi Germany before the invasion of the allied ones from the National Socialist rule to.

After the re-establishment of the Austrian state Gruber 1945 became a provisional national captain of Tirol and created there the so-called "Austrian state party", which he integrated later into the

After the conferences of Land of the Federal Republic of the yearly 1945 Gruber was appointed as a representative of the western Lands of the Federal Republic to Vienna, where he transferred the office of the minister of foreign affairs in the autumn in the government Figl I. In this position it was active until November 1953. In the first time its principal interest of the solution of the South Tyrol question applied for its activity, did not achieve in this thing not its goal, i.e. the self-determination for South Tyrol, but could it the autonomy and further other advantages for South Tyrol achieve, which were specified on 5 September 1946 in so-called digging earth the Gasperi agreement. In the further years Gruber was considerably involved in the negotiations to the convention and took a always per-American position.

Due to party-internal conflicts Gruber withdrew in November 1953 as a minister of foreign affairs and went first as an Ambassador to Washington. Apart from further Ambassador activities in Berne, Bonn and Madrid, Gruber was also a president of the international atomic energy authority and from 1966 to 1969 undersecretary of state in the Office of the Federal Chancellor.

1986 functioned Gruber as a special emissary in the forest home affair and took over also up to his death advising functions of prominent politicians.

Further he was a long-term president of the Latin American institute in Vienna.

Karl Gruber was married with Helga, born Ahlgrimm. From the marriage no children followed.

It lived up to its death on 1 February 1995 in the third Viennese municipality district.

Political career/development

• 26 September - 20 December 1945 under-secretary of State for foreign affairs
• 20 December 1945 - 26 November of 1953 ministers of foreign affairs
• from 1954 to 1966 and 1969 to 1972 Ambassadors in Washington, Madrid, Bonn and Berne.
• 19. April 1966 - 31. May 1969 undersecretary of state in the Office of the Federal Chancellor.

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