Albrecht Gaiswinkler (October 29, 1905 – May 11, 1979) was an Austrian civil servant, social democrat (SPÖ) politician and resistance fighter, who, some believe, saved the Mona Lisa from destruction in an Austrian salt mine towards the end of World War II. The administrators of the Louvre have stated that the Mona Lisa was kept in France during the second world war, but that it is possible that a 15th or 16th century copy of the Mona Lisa was held in Austria. After the war, Gaiswinkler was a SPÖ member of the Austrian Parliament from 1945-1949. He died in Bad Aussee in 1979.