Biography
Helmut Zilk was born in Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna as a son of the Bohemia-born newspaper worker.
Zilk was Mayor of Vienna from 1984 to 1994. In December 1993 he was severely injured when he opened a letter bomb which had been sent to his home in Innere Stadt by Franz Fuchs.
Zilk died on October 24, 2008 of heart failure, after arriving home sick from a vacation in Portugal. He was married to Austrian musical star, Dagmar Koller.
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