Dr. Rudolf Leopold

Rudolf Leopold graduated from the High School in Melk and was then convened to the Landwehrinfanterieregiment No. 49 on 1917. It is used on the Russian front as well as on the Isonzo (last degree of service Lieutenant of the Reserve). After the war, in Vienna, he studies agriculture (Dr. rer. agr. 1923), where he joined the student association Kürnberg.

After completing his studies, Rudolf Leopold is at first a short time at the Tyrolean Cultural Council and then from 1923 to 1927 plant engineering inspector of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture. In 1927, he was appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture and in 1931 head of Division 6 (including plant construction, viticulture).

In 1936 Rudolf Leopold became Head of the Section for Agriculture, the appointment as Head of Section takes place at 31. January 1938. In March 1938, he is placed out of service and was forced to board with a three-quarter of the resting pleasure. It then operates in various farms and in the food industry.

After the war, Rudolf Leopold is rehabilitated and headed the Department of Trade Policy, which is directly assigned to the Secretary of State, in the State Office for Agriculture and Forestry of the Provisional State Government. After reorganization of the Federal Government at the end of 1945, he changes to the Federal Chancellery and leads the United Nations (UNRRA, Marshall Plan). As of 1947, this Austrian aid is managed as an ERP department within the framework of the Federal Chancellery's Foreign Affairs. From 1951 to his retirement in 1963, he is head of the section Agriculture in the Ministry of Agriculture.

His son Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010) is one of the most important collectors of contemporary art (Museum Leopold Wien).