Early Life
Born on 6 November 1934, in Vienna, Austria, Hans Janitschek first came to the United States in 1953 as a Fulbright Program scholar at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. On his return to Austria he became Staff Correspondent of United Press International and in 1957 he joined Reuters as Senior Editor. In 1959 he became Foreign Editor of Austria’s largest daily newspaper, Kurier.
He joined the Austrian Foreign Service in 1964 and returned to the U.S. to serve as Director of the Austrian Information Service in New York for two years. In 1966 he was appointed Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Austrian Socialist Party, Bruno Kreisky.
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