In commemorating the 50th anniversary of Friedrich August von Hayek’s Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded in December 1974, we seize this occasion not only to reflect on his connection with Otto von Habsburg but also to explore key aspects of our namesake’s profound involvement with the field of economics and economic scholarship.
On 28 October 2024, our Foundation, together with the Embassy of Hungary in Vienna and the Federation of Austrian Industries, held a conference on the history of the Austrian school of economics and its relevance today.
The Austrian political scientist, world traveller, publicist and writer Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909–1999), a friend and ally of Otto von Habsburg, died twenty-five years ago on 26 May.
Eiichiro Tokumoto, who had recently published a book on the life of Seigen Tanaka, an important Japanese nexus of Otto von Habsburg, visited our Foundation. The aim of his research in Budapest was to explore in more detail the links between our namesake and the decision-makers of the island country.
