The kidnapping of Margarethe Ottillinger, who was arrested by KGB agents from a minister’s car in 1948, was spectacular. Many questions remained unanswered for decades. Until the Carinthian historian Stefan Karner opened the case – and is now giving a lecture in Weißenstein about the first director of the OMV – leader ÖMV.
November 5, 1948. 28-year-old section leader Margarethe Ottillinger is on her way to Vienna with Peter Krauland, the Minister of Asset Protection. You had previously had a secret meeting with Chancellor Leopold Figl. Stoi! At the border of the Allied zone in Steyr, on the Enns Bridge, heavily armed Russian soldiers stop the company car. The Soviets arrest the economist with a PhD.
Source: Krone
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