List of Austrian Foreign Ministers

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Austrian Foreign Minister since 1918

See also : List of Foreign Ministers of the Habsburg Monarchy (1727–1918)

• Heads of Austrian foreign policy marked with *) were Chancellors who also ran the State Office for Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Ministry.
• Marked with **) from 1923 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1959 were Federal Chancellors who headed the Foreign Office section in the Federal Chancellery itself. Foreign ministers in the Chancellery ran these agendas in other federal governments of the time.
• The first state secretaries of the first as well as the first of the second republic were not state secretaries in today's sense (high officials under a minister), but it was the name of the ministerial post. Minister and Secretary of State only existed during the politically sensitive occupation. The agency was the Foreign Office, an independent Foreign Ministry existed from 1918 to 1923 and has existed since 1959.

First Republic (1918–1938)

Surname	image	Taking office	End of office	Political party	annotation
Victor Adler		Oct. 30, 1918	Nov. 11, 1918 (†)	SDAPDÖ	State Secretary (= Minister) for Foreign Affairs
Otto Bauer		Nov 21, 1918	July 26, 1919	SDAPDÖ	State Secretary (= Minister) for Foreign Affairs
Karl Renner		July 26, 1919	Oct 22, 1920	SDAPDÖ	*) State Chancellor and State Secretary (= Minister) for Foreign Affairs
Michael Mayr		Oct 22, 1920	June 21, 1921	CS	*) State Chancellor and State Secretary (= Minister) for Foreign Affairs until November 10, 1920, then Federal Chancellor entrusted with the management of the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Johann Schober		June 21, 1921	Jan. 26, 1922	official	*)
Walter Breisky		Jan. 26, 1922	Jan. 27, 1922	official	*)
Leopold Hennet		Jan. 27, 1922	May 31, 1922	official
Alfred Grünberger		May 31, 1922	Nov 20, 1924	CS	Minister at the Federal Chancellery , entrusted with the management of foreign affairs
Heinrich Mataja		Nov 20, 1924	Jan 15, 1926	CS	Minister at the Federal Chancellery
Rudolf Ramek		Jan 15, 1926	Oct. 20, 1926	CS	**)
Ignaz Seipel		Oct. 20, 1926	0May 4, 1929	CS	**)
Ernst Streeruwitz		0May 4, 1929	26 Sep 1929	CS	**)
Johann Schober		26 Sep 1929	Sep 30 1930	official	2. term of office; **)
Ignaz Seipel		Sep 30 1930	0Dec. 4, 1930	CS	2. term of office; Minister at the Federal Chancellery (entrusted with the technical management of foreign affairs until November 29)
Johann Schober		0Dec. 4, 1930	Jan. 29, 1932	official	3. Term of office
Karl Buresch		Jan. 29, 1932	May 20, 1932	CS	**)
Engelbert Dollfuss		May 20, 1932	July 10, 1934	CS / VF	**)
Stephan Tauschitz		July 10, 1934	0Aug 3, 1934	Landbund / VF	Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Egon Berger-Waldenegg		0Aug 3, 1934	May 14, 1936	VF	Minister at the Federal Chancellery ; 17.-29. Exposed Nov. 1935
Kurt Schuschnigg		May 14, 1936	July 11, 1936	VF	**)
Guido Schmidt		July 11, 1936	11th Mar 1938	VF	Chancellery of State , on February 16, 1938 Minister at the Federal Chancellery
Wilhelm Wolf		11th Mar 1938	13 Mar 1938	NSDAP

Second Republic (since 1945)

No	Surname	image	Taking office	End of office	Political party	annotation
1	Karl Gruber		26 Sep 1945	Nov 26, 1953	ÖVP	Undersecretary of State (= Minister) for Foreign Affairs until December 20, 1945 , then Minister at the Federal Chancellery
2	Leopold Figl		Nov 26, 1953	0June 9, 1959	ÖVP	Minister at the Federal Chancellery ( State Secretary for Foreign Affairs: April 2, 1953 - July 16, 1959 Bruno Kreisky; June 29, 1956 - July 31, 1959: Franz Gschnitzer )
2	Julius Raab		June 10, 1959	July 16, 1959	ÖVP	**)
3	Bruno Kreisky		July 16, 1959	Apr 19, 1966	SPÖ	July 16 - 31, 1959 Minister at the Federal Chancellery , then at the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (BMaA) (was previously State Secretary)
4th	Lujo Tončić-Sorinj		Apr 19, 1966	Jan. 19, 1968	ÖVP	( State Secretary for Foreign Affairs: April 19, 1966 - May 13, 1969 Karl Gruber, 2nd term)
5	Kurt Waldheim		Jan. 19, 1968	Apr 21, 1970	independent
6th	Rudolf Kirchschläger		Apr 21, 1970	June 23, 1974	independent
7th	Erich Bielka		June 23, 1974	Sep 30 1976	independent
8th	Willibald Pahr		0Oct. 1, 1976	May 24, 1983	independent
9	Erwin Lanc		May 24, 1983	Sep 10 1984	SPÖ
10	Leopold Gratz		Sep 10 1984	June 16, 1986	SPÖ
11	Peter Jankowitsch 1		June 16, 1986	Jan. 21, 1987	SPÖ
12	Alois Mock		Jan. 21, 1987	0May 4, 1995	ÖVP
13	Wolfgang bowl		0May 4, 1995	0Feb. 4, 2000	ÖVP
14th	Benita Ferrero-Waldner		0Feb. 4, 2000	Oct 20, 2004	ÖVP
15th	Ursula Plassnik		Oct 20, 2004	0Dec 2, 2008	ÖVP
16	Michael Spindelegger		0Dec 2, 2008	Dec 16, 2013	ÖVP
17th	Sebastian Kurz		Dec 16, 2013	Dec 18, 2017	ÖVP
18th	Karin Kneissl		Dec 18, 2017	03rd June 2019	independent	nominated by the FPÖ
19th	Alexander Schallenberg		03rd June 2019	officiating	independent	nominated by the ÖVP since January 7, 2020

 ÖVP  Austrian People's Party

 SPÖ  Socialist Party of Austria

Timeline ministers and governments since 1945