List of Ministers-President of Austria

Coat of arms of the Austrian Empire (1867)

The Minister-President of Austria was the head of government of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1821, when the office of a State Chancellor was created by Emperor Francis for Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, until the abolition of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in November 1918. The office of an Austrian Minister-President comparable to that of a Prime Minister of an executive monarchy was officially established in the course of the Revolutions of 1848.

After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the office was divided between the Foreign Minister as head of the common k. u. k. Ministers' Council, and the Ministers-President of the Cisleithanian (Austrian) and Transleithanian (Hungarian) parts.

The head of government in Austria since 1918/1920 has been the Federal Chancellor, except for the seven years following the Anschluss in 1938.

Austrian Empire (1804–67)

State Chancellor (1821–48)

• Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich (25 May 1821 – 13 March 1848)

Ministers-President (1848–52)

• Count Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (20 March – 19 April 1848)
• Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont (19 April – 19 May 1848) (acting)
• Baron Franz von Pillersdorf (19 May – 8 July 1848) (acting)
• Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier (8 July – 18 July 1848) (caretaker government)
• Baron Johann von Wessenberg-Ampringen (18 July – 21 November 1848)
• Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (21 November 1848 – 5 April 1852)

Chairmen of the Ministers' Conference (1852–67)

• Count Karl Ferdinand von Buol (11 April 1852 – 21 August 1859) (informal)
• Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (21 August 1859 – 4 February 1861)
• Archduke Rainer Ferdinand (4 February 1861 – 26 June 1865)
• Count Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly (26 June – 27 July 1865)
• Count Richard Belcredi (27 July 1865 – 7 February 1867)
• Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (7 February – 30 December 1867)

Austria–Hungary (1867–1918)

Medium coat of arms of Austria-Hungary (1916),
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Foreign Ministers as Chairmen of the Ministers' Council for Common Affairs

• Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (30 December 1867 – 8 November 1871)
• Count Gyula Andrássy (14 November 1871 – 2 October 1879)
• Baron Heinrich Karl von Haymerle (8 October 1879 – 10 October 1881)
• Count Gustav Kálnoky (20 November 1881 – 2 May 1895)
• Count Agenor Maria Gołuchowski (16 May 1895 – 24 October 1906)
• Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (24 October 1906 – 17 February 1912)
• Count Leopold Berchtold (17 February 1912 – 13 January 1915)
• Count Stephan Burián von Rajecz (13 January 1915 – 22 December 1916)
• Count Ottokar von Czernin (22 December 1916 – 14 April 1918)
• Count Stephan Burián von Rajecz, again (16 April 1918 – 24 October 1918)
• Count Gyula Andrássy (the younger): (24 October 1918 – 1 November 1918)
• Baron Ludwig von Flotow (2 November 1918 – 11 November 1918)

Medium coat of arms of the Austrian Lands (1915),
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Ministers-President of Cisleithania

• Prince Karl of Auersperg (30 December 1867 – 24 September 1868)
• Count Eduard Taaffe (24 September 1868 – 15 January 1870)
• Baron Ignaz von Plener (15 January – 1 February 1870)
• Leopold Hasner von Artha (1 February – 12 April 1870)
• Count Alfred Józef Potocki (12 April 1870 – 6 February 1871)
• Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart (6 February – 30 October 1871)
• Baron Ludwig von Holzgethan (30 October – 25 November 1871)
• Prince Adolf von Auersperg (28 November 1871 – 15 February 1879)
• Knight Karl von Stremayr (15 February – 12 August 1879)
• Count Eduard Taaffe, again (12 August 1879 – 11 November 1893)
• Prince Alfred of Windisch-Grätz (11 November 1893 – 19 June 1895)
• Count Erich Kielmansegg (19 June – 30 September 1895) (caretaker government)
• Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (30 September 1895 – 30 November 1897)
• Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn (30 November 1897 – 5 March 1898)
• Prince Franz of Thun and Hohenstein (5 March 1898 – 2 October 1899)
• Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen (2 October – 21 December 1899)
• Knight Heinrich von Wittek (21 December 1899 – 18 January 1900) (caretaker government)
• Ernest von Koerber (19 January 1900 – 31 December 1904)
• Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn, again (31 December 1904 – 2 May 1906)
• Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe (2 May – 2 June 1906)
• Baron Max Wladimir von Beck (2 June 1906 – 15 November 1908)
• Count Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling (15 November 1908 – 28 June 1911)
• Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn, third term (28 June – 3 November 1911)
• Count Karl von Stürgkh (3 November 1911 – 21 October 1916)
• Ernest von Koerber, again (29 October – 20 December 1916)
• Count Heinrich Clam-Martinic (20 December 1916 – 23 June 1917)
• Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg (23 June 1917 – 27 July 1918)
• Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (27 July – 27 October 1918)
• Heinrich Lammasch (27 October – 11 November 1918)

Medium coat of arms of the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen (1915), H. G. Ströhl

Ministers-President of Transleithania

• Gyula Andrássy (17 February 1867 – 14 November 1871)
• Menyhért Lónyay (14 November 1871 – 4 December 1872)
• József Szlávy (4 December 1872 -1 March 1874)
• István Bittó (1 March 1874 – 2 March 1875)
• Béla Wenckheim (2 March 1875 – 20 October 1875)
• Kálmán Tisza (20 October 1875 – 13 March 1890)
• Gyula Szapáry (13 March 1890 – 17 November 1892)
• Sándor Wekerle (17 November 1892 – 14 January 1895)
• Dezső Bánffy (14 January 1895 – 26 February 1899)
• Kálmán Széll (26 February 1899 – 27 June 1903)
• Károly Khuen-Héderváry (27 June 1903 – 3 November 1903)
• István Tisza (3 November 1903 – 18 June 1905)
• Géza Fejérváry (18 June 1905 – 8 April 1906)
• Sándor Wekerle, again (8 April 1906 – 17 January 1910)
• Károly Khuen-Héderváry, again (17 January 1910 – 22 April 1912)
• László Lukács (22 April 1912 – 10 June 1913)
• István Tisza, again (10 June 1913 – 15 June 1917)
• Móric Esterházy (15 June 1917 – 20 August 1917)
• Sándor Wekerle, again (20 August 1917 – 31 October 1918)
• János Hadik (31 October 1918 – 1 November 1918)

See also

• Chancellor of Austria
• Minister-President