Franz Kain (10 January 1922 – 27 October 1997) was an Austrian writer and politician.
At the age of 14, he was arrested for distributing leaflets for the communist youth organization and imprisoned for three weeks.
Following the Anschluss, he was arrested again in 1941 and was later pressed into service in the German 999th Light Afrika Division.
[2] When he returned to Austria, Kain began working as a journalist for the newspaper Die Neue Zeit in Linz.
[4] In 1954, his story "Die Lawine" appeared in the anthology Der Kreis hat einen Anfang.