Between 1945 and 1959 Afritsch was a member of the Vienna City Council and a member of the Vienna Regional Legislature ( '' Landtag '' ) . In 1946 he was formally elected to the City Office for General Administrative Matters , an office to which he had been appointed the previous year under the conditions of military occupation . He continued in this position for a long time , acquiring a deep knowledge of various aspects of city administration , and taking care of the naturalisation of tens of thousands of ethnic Germans displaced by the ethnic cleansing that was a feature of the postwar settlement
postwar settlement
Potsdam Conference
Josef Afritsch