Kurt Waldheim

Secretary-General of the United Nations

21 December 1918 Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Lower Austria, Republic of German-Austria

14 June 2007(2007-06-14) (88) Vienna, Austria

1 January 1972 – 31 December 1981

4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972–81), President of Austria (1986–92) Politics portal Kurt Josef Waldheim (German: ( listen ) ; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the fourth 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.