List of Austrians - Politicians

Politicians

  • Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, statesman and diplomat
  • Count Leopold von Berchtold, foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War
  • Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, politician and writer
  • Engelbert Dollfuß, Chancellor 1932–1934 (First Republic), established Austrofascism
  • Leopold Figl, Chancellor 1945–1953, foreign minister 1953–1959
  • Heinz Fischer, current President (elected 2004)
  • Werner Faymann, current Chancellor (since 2008), chairman of the Austrian Socialdemocrats
  • Jörg Haider, politician, governour of Carinthia until his death in 2008
  • Adolf Hitler, head of state in the Third Reich 1933–1945, gained German citizenship in 1932, and became German dictator 1938, annexed Austria through the Anschluß
  • Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, statesman and historian
  • Theodor Innitzer, cardinal archbishop of Vienna 1932–1955, minister of social affairs 1929–1930
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner, NSDAP politician
  • Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, statesman
  • Rudolf Kirchschläger, judge, diplomat and President 1974–1986
  • Thomas Klestil, diplomat, President 1992–2004
  • Teddy Kollek, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
  • Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, diplomat and statesman
  • Julius Raab, Chancellor 1953–1961
  • Karl Renner, Chancellor 1918–1920 and 1945, first President of the Second Republic 1945–1950
  • Adolf Schärf, President 1957–1965
  • Anton von Schmerling, statesman (liberal movement of the 19th century)
  • Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor 1934–1938
  • Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor 2000–2007
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California
  • Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929
  • Arthur Seyß-Inquart, NSDAP politician, last Chancellor before the Anschluss in 1938
  • Johann Philipp von Stadion, statesman, foreign minister and diplomat 1763- 1824
  • Alexander van der Bellen, former chairman of the Austrian Green Party
  • Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1972–1982, President of Austria 1986–1992

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