The effects of the Marshall Plan in Austria (1949–1953)
Signing by Austria of the agreement to participate in the Marshall Plan (Vienna, 2 July 1948)
ImageOn 2 July 1948, in Vienna, Adolf Schärf, Austrian Vice-Chancellor, Karl Gruber, Austrian Foreign Minister, and John George Erhardt, US Ambassador to Austria, sign an agreement regarding economic cooperation between Austria and the United States under the Marshall Plan.
‘Upper Austria and Marshall Plan aid' from the Linzer Volksblatt (25 August 1951)
TextOn 25 August 1951, in an interview for the Austrian daily newspaper Linzer Volksblatt, Heinrich Gleißner, Governor of Upper Austria, describes the positive impact on Austria of the US economic aid provided under the Marshall Plan.
Austrian poster depicting the Marshall Plan
ImagePoster published in Austria in the late 1940s in support of the Marshall Plan for US aid to Europe.
Poster depicting Austria and the Marshall Plan (1949)
TextPoster published in 1949 in order to inform the Austrian people of how the US economic aid provided under the Marshall Plan is being put to use in Austria.
Series of posters on Austria and the Marshall Plan (1950–1952)
TextBetween 1950 and 1952, several posters are published in order to improve knowledge about the use made in Austria of the US economic aid provided under the Marshall Plan.
OEEC report on the economic situation in Austria (1953)
TextIn 1953, the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) publishes a report on recent trends in the Austrian economy and indicates new development prospects.
Poster depicting the European train (1952)
TextIn 1948, in order to highlight the benefits of economic cooperation and of the Marshall Plan in Europe, the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) charters a train, its five carriages forming a travelling exhibition passing through no less than 18 European countries. In 1952, a poster announces the arrival of the ‘European train’ in Austria.