Austria
Archduchy of Austria:
- Monarch - Maria Theresia of Austria - 1740
First Republic of Austria:
- Member of Parliament - Anna Boschek - 1919
- President of the Bundesrat - Olga Ruder-Zeynek - 1927
Second Republic of Austria:
- Government Minister - Grete Rehor - 1966
- Minister of Social Affairs - Grete Rehor - 1966
- Minister for Foreign Affairs - Benita Ferrero-Waldner - 2000
- Mayor of Innsbruck - Hilde Zach - 2002–2011
- Minister for Justice - Karin Gastinger - 2004
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“All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)