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Dr. Alois Mock (born June 10, 1934) is a christian-conservative Austrian politician. He was Vice-Chancellor of Austria (german: Vizekanzler) 1991-1995. As Foreign minister he lead Austria into the EU.
Born in Euratsfeld, Lower Austria, Mock went on to study the laws at the University of Vienna (laws and later international laws in Bologna and Brüssel.
From 1961-1966 Alois Mock assisted the Bundeskanzler Josef Klaus in EWG and EFTA policy and for the OECD in Paris. In 1966 he became secretary of Klaus and 1969-1970 the youngest minister Austria ever had.
After the Nationalrat elections of 1970/71 - where the Socialists under Bruno Kreisky won a majority - he became member of the parliament (ÖVP) and Mayor of Euratsfeld. 1971-78 "Lois" chaired the ÖAAB, the most important group of the People's Party, and 1978-1987 the whole party (his later successors were Josef Riegler, Erhard Busek and Wolfgang Schüssel).
In 1979 Mock became the President of the European EDU, and 1983-1987 also of the international christian democrats union IDU.
At the elections of 1987 the ÖVP got almost the same percentage as Kreisky's SPÖ, who therefore retired.
From 1987-1989 Alois Mock was Austrian Vice-Chancellor of the governments of Fred Sinowatz (1983-1986) and of Franz Vranitzky (both SPÖ). He hold the position of an Foreign minister from 1987-1995; leading Austria into the European Union, he became one of the most popular politicians of his country.
In July 1989 he cut the Iron Curtain (in German: "Eiserner Vorhang"), the strong border of the communist countries, together with his hungarian colleague Gyula Horn. During the next months thousands of DDR people therefore could emigrate to Austria and West Germany which was the beginning of the communist break down.
Together with Hans-Dietrich Genscher of Germany he decided to acknowledge the new countries Slovenia and Croatia, but Europe nevertheless could not avoid the Yugoslavian wars. In November 1989 Alois Mock was one of the founders of the Central European Cooperative called Pentagonale, which was later supplemented from 5 countries to 16 countries of the CEI.
In 1999 he retired as a member of parliament because of Parkinson's disease. Nevertheless he is intensively interested in Austrian politics, esp. those aspects which concern the eastern neighbours of Austria.
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