In Place of a Diary: Otto von Habsburg Interviews in the HOAL Collection

A total of 133 hours of video interviews, produced over nearly three decades, have been added to the Foundation’s collection. Since Otto von Habsburg never wrote a diary or personal memoir, these informal conversations, recorded between 1977 and 2005, may be regarded among the most personal and profound surviving sources about his life and thought.

Enchanted by Mitteleuropa – In memory of Erhard Busek

Erhard Busek, former Austrian Vice-Chancellor, head of the Ministry of Education, Science and Research, former chairman of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and head of the Institut für den Danube Region und Mitteleuropa in Vienna, died on 13 March.