List of governors, presidents and governors in Upper Austria

State coat of arms of Upper Austria

The list of governors, presidents and governors gives an overview of the highest politicians and officials of the province of Upper Austria (initially Austria ob der Enns ).

During this time, the rulers were the reigning Archdukes of Austria (the only woman in this position was Maria Theresa from 1740–1780), 1804–1918 in personal union as Emperor of Austria . Supreme liege lord of the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns was the German king until 1806, but since the 16th century at the latest he has always been a Habsburg in personal union.

Since 1920, the formal head of state has been the incumbent Austrian Federal President , and the provincial head the incumbent governor.

Governors in Austria above the Enns (1204 to 1783)

Manager of the area above the Enns (from 1204)

In the genealogical description of the lords' estates it is noted that both Margrave Leopold and Duke Heinrich as well as Duke Leopold VI. and Duke Friedrich VI. did not record who they administered the land before 1204. At that time, a large part of Upper Austria belonged to the Duchy of Styria for a long time , so that the governors in the Duchy of Styria were also responsible for the Upper Austrian Traungau .

• Ortolph von Volckenstorff
  from 1204 to 1217: administrator of the Traungau
• Erchinger II von Wesen
  from 1230 to 1231: Administrator of the Traungau
• Albero II of Polheim
  around 1236 to 1246 (with interruptions)

Since Duke Friedrich was expelled from his lands and these were taken by Emperor Friedrich II , initially Burgrave Friedrich von Nürnberg, then Bishop Eckbert von Bamberg and after his death in 1237 Count Otto von Eberstain as governor administered the land above the Enns. After the reconciliation with Emperor Friedrich, Albero von Polheim again took over the state administration until the death of Duke Friedrich in 1246. After that there was a nine-year interregnum.

District judges and governors in the court above the Enns (1254/1261 to 1490/93)

Key data 1250s – 1493

April 3, 1254 Peace of Oven / 31. March 1261 Peace of Vienna : Traungau separated from Styria and the Duchy of Austria taken 1262/63 Austria superior ("Upper Austria") or supra anasum ("ob der Enns") documented 1276–1279: Land leased to Duke Heinrich (I) of Lower Bavaria . 1281: Court mentioned above the Enns around 1390: State coat of arms 1408: First state parliament in Enns 1458–1462 Archduchy of Austria independent of the Enns ( Albrecht VI. ) 1478: Landesviertel

King Ottokar II. Premysl , the Bohemian, designed the land above the Enns from 1252 to 1261 . Ottokar Přemysl separated Traungau , which belonged to Styria, in 1254 in the Peace of Oven and in 1261 in the Peace of Vienna , and turned the country into a principality above the Enns . This led to the curious situation that the previous capital, Steyr, came to lie outside of its territory, Styria. Upper Austria, initially a province with a judge (iudex provincialis), then a regional court , increasingly developed into an independent territory.

After Ottokar's death in 1278, the Habsburgs consolidated their territory in the Eastern Alps and on the southern Bohemian border for two centuries. In 1281 Duke Albrecht I established the court above the Enns . Around 1390, the area received its own territorial coat of arms , the origin of which is not entirely clear.

Archduke Albrecht VI ruled as early as 1458–62 / 63 . the generous the Archduchy of Austria whether the Enns independently from his brother Friedrich V (the III. Emperor) in Vienna. After he had inherited his brother, the latter resided in Linz 1484–1493 (Vienna was conquered by Corvinus), and speaks for the first time of a principality of Austria above the Enns . As a result, the part of the country nominally gains the status of a duchy within Habsburg Lower Austria , because Frederick had affirmed the title of Archduke in 1453 for the whole of Austria .

From 1282 a Land Marshal was in office in Austria, to whom the Governor of the Enns was subordinate. A supreme deputy is appointed in the Obderennsischen areas, initially partly as a district judge , partly as a captain (capitaneus) , more in the sense of a military commander-in-chief. A provincial governor of his own is documented for the first time in 1275 , and becomes permanent in the 15th century (although the post is in phases occupied by the Marshal of Austria or Captain under the Enns ). From 1452/54 the state sets up its own state parliament, with which the highest official finally becomes governor .

The district judge / captain is appointed and sworn in by the sovereign, acts in his command and name, and is both the highest official of the administration and the highest judge . He and an installation commissioner are introduced to the state estates , who promise to obey him with due "due obedience". If the main team is vacant, an administrator is appointed, from the 16th century usually the lawyer (deputy, in the 16th century also briefly named as administrator ). If the Beige were Landschreiber (office manager), the Vizedom (financial institution) and the district administrators , the college , which includes the Banc presented (assessors). The seat was initially the Ennsburg , from 1330 Castle Linz (connected with the rule of the castle).

At the end of the 13th century the office also acquired hereditary character, from 1288 to 1478 the Walseeers , loyal followers of the Habsburgs, occupied the office for 190 years.

In 1478 the Landesviertel were also created as military units, the Mühl and Machlandviertel north of the Danube and the Hausruck and Traunviertel to the south (the Innviertel did not come to the state until 1779, with which the Machlandviertel was abolished).

(the following list is incomplete)

• Witiko von Prčice and Blankenberg
  1254 / 55–1256 Landschreiber ( Scriba Anasi ) and first administrator of the new land above the Enns
• Wok von Rosenberg
  1256 to 1260 at the latest, Captain ob der Enns, then 1260–1262 Governor of Styria
• Konrad von Summerau
  term of office: 1264 District Judge of the Province of Upper Austria (iudex Austriae superioris)
  1276 Castle Captain of Enns (Upper Austrian Governor)
• Burkhard von Klingenberg , Marshal of the Kingdom of Böheim, 1270/1271 Governor of Styria Term of
  office: 1274–1275 / 76 Captain ob der Enns
• Heinrich II., Margrave of Hachberg (* before 1231; † around 1297/98) Term of
  office (in exercise): probably after 1278 captain of Upper Austria
• Ulrich II. Von Kapellen († after 1295)
  term of office: 1279/81/83 - 1288 initially captain , under Albrecht I (after 1282) chief district judge on the Enns
• Eberhard IV./II. of Walsee († 1325)
  Term of office: 1288-1322 Landrichter the Enns , from 1300 as captain of the Enns referred
• Eberhard V./III. von Walsee († 1371)
  First term of office: 1322–1361 District judge whether the Enns alias captain whether the Enns
• Hans von Traun ( Jans von Traun ; between 1328 and 1378)
  Term of office: 1361–1369 Captain ob der Enns
• Eberhard V./III. von Walsee († 1371)
  Second term of office: 1369–1371 Captain ob der Enns , together with
• Ulrich von Schaunberg († 1373)
  Term of office: 1369–1373 Captain ob der Enns
• Wernhard von Maissau
  term of office (interim): 1373/74
• Henry VI. von Walsee († 1398)
  Term of office: 1374–1379 Governor above the Enns
• Reinprecht II von Walsee († 1422)
  term of office: 1379–1422 captain ob der Enns
• Reinprecht IV./III. von Walsee († 1450)
  Term of office: 1423–1450 Captain von Enns (also Oberstmarschall in Austria from 1440)
• Johann von Schaunberg
  term of office: 1450–1452
• Wolfgang V. von Walsee († 1466)
  term of office: 1452–1466 (also Supreme Marshal of Austria); 1454/55 Supreme Captain in Austria below and above the Enns
• Johann IV. Von Starhemberg (* 1412; † 1474)
  Term of office: 1460
• Reinprecht V./IV. von Walsee († May 1483, last of the Walsee )
  term of office: 1467–1478 governor ob der Enns (also Oberstmarschall in Austria)
• Bernhard von Scherffenberg († 1513)
  term of office: 1478–1484
• Ulrich von Starhemberg († 1486 in Linz )
  Term of office: from 1485–1486
• Gotthard von Starhemberg († 1493 in Linz , brother of Ulrich von Starhemberg)
  Term of office: 1486–1493
• Michael von Traun Term of
  office: 1493–1494 administrator of the main team

Governors in the country (principality) of Austria ob der Enns (1490/93 to 1620)

Key data 1490–1620
1490 Principality of Austria above the Enns ( Friedrich V. ) 1525: 1st (German) peasant uprising 1595–1597: 2nd peasant uprising

After 1493 at the latest, the part of Austria above the Enns gained a certain degree of independence in the Holy Roman Empire. Since then, the state's estates have regularly held their own state parliaments in Linz, which was elevated to the state capital by Friedrich V (III.) In 1490 (the first Upper Austrian state parliament was held in Wels as early as 1452, and one at Linz Castle in 1457, the first common ob- and under-the-ennsische Landtag had already been held in Enns in 1407/08, where the Obderennser also met independently).

The estates were increasingly Protestant and the country was soon completely reformed . During the time of the Peasant Wars and the Counter-Reformation , there were several exceptional states.

(the following list is incomplete)

• Georg von Losenstein
  term of office: from 1494 - 1501
• Sigmund von Pollheim and Wolfgang von Pollheim Term of
  office: 1501 administrators of the main team
• Wolfgang von Polheim , Freiherr zu Wartenburg Term of
  office: 1502–1512
• Wolfgang Jörger
  term of office: 1513–1521
• Georg Sigharter zu Leombach Term of
  office: 1521 administrator of the main team
• Cyriak von Polheim
  term of office: around 1524/25 (lawyer / administrator Sigmund Jagenreutter )
• Helfrich von Meggau (* 1510; † 1539)
  term of office: 1533–1539
• Julius zu Hardeck
  term of office: 1539–1544
• Balthasar von Prösing († May 28, 1559 in Linz )
  Term of office: 1544–1559
• Georg Neuhauser von Rueting zu Stadlkirchen Term of
  office: 1559 Administrator of the main team
• Georg von Manning († July 24, 1570)
  Term of office: 1559–1570
• Dietmar von Losenstein († January 20, 1577)
  Term of office: around 1573–1577
• Hans Jörg Auer
  term of office: 1577 administrator of the main team
• Leonhard von Harrach , Freiherr zu Rorau and Pührenstein
  term of office: 1577–1581
• Hans Jörg Auer
  term of office: 1581 administrator of the main team
• Ferdinand Helfrich von Meggau (* 1539; † July 10, 1585 in Linz )
  Term of office: around 1584, 1582–1585
• Wilhelm Seemann von Mangern Term of
  office: 1585 Administrator of the main team
• Jörg von Hoheneck zu Hagenberg Term of
  office: 1585 - 1587 administrator of the main team
• Wilhelm Seemann von Mangern Term of
  office: 1587 - 1590 administrator of the main team
• Sigmund Freiherr von Lamberg-Orteneck-Ottenstein (* 1536; † 1616)
  Term of office: 1590–1592,
  later Land Marshal of Austria
• Hans Jakob Löbl Freiherr von Greinburg († October 11, 1602)
  Term of office: 1592–1602
  First Catholic governor of the Counter Reformation Lawyers: Veit Spindler, Hans Ruprecht Hegenmüller
• Johann [Hans] Ruprecht Hegenmüller von Tubenweiler / Dubenweiler (* 1572 in Vienna; † 1633 in Vienna) Term of
  office: 1602–1603 as attorney in practice (attorney since 1601),
  later secret councilor and government chancellor of the three emperors Rudolf II, Mathias and Ferdinand II.
• Hans Haim Freiherr von Reichenstein Term of
  office: 1603–1605 administrator of the governorate
• Georg Sigmund Freiherr von Lamberg Term of
  office: 1605–1606
• Veith Spindler von Hofegg Term of
  office: 1606 Administrator of the main team
• Jakob von Mollart (* 1565)
  term of office: 1606–1610
• Sigmund Ludwig von Polheim Term of
  office: 1608 Administrator of the main team
• Wolf Wilhelm II von Volkenstorf (* 1567; † September 12, 1616)
  term of office: 1610–1616
• Johann Babtist Spindler von Hofegg († before 1647)
  Term of office: 1616–1619 administrator of the governorate
• Sigmund Ludwig von Pollheim († 1622)
  Term of office: from 1619 (was captured in 1621)

Lieutenants during the kurbayer. Lien (1620 to 1628)

Key data 1620–1628
October 8, 1619: Treaty of Munich on compensation for war expenses August 20, 1620: Handover of the land to Bavaria 1626: 3rd peasant uprising

Ferdinand II pledged Upper Austria to Bavaria for eight years in order to cover the costs of the Thirty Years War , which were incurred for the imperial Counter-Reformation : Austria over the Enns, which was conquered from the Protestant estates by Duke and Elector Maximilian I , is considered to be Given deposit. From May 1625, they rebelled against Catholic rule ( Upper Austrian Peasants' War ). An Austrian officer officiated as the Bavarian governor .

• Adam Graf von Herberstorff (* 1585 at Kalsdorf Castle near Ilz, † 1629 at Ort Castle on the Traunsee)
  Term of office: August 20, 1620 - May 5, 1628

Governors in the state (Archduchy) Austria ob der Enns (1628 to 1748)

Key dates 1628–1748
August 30, 1628: solemn assumption of office by the Austrian administration

In 1628, the country was released from the pledge again and re-incorporated into the Archduchy of Austria, at the time called Austria above and below the Enns . First imperial commissioners are appointed as governors , then the previous Bavarian governor is appointed as governor .

Commissioners (governors)

Hans Heinrich von Sa [a] lburg Freiherr zu Falkenstein († 1633 in Vienna) emperor. Chamberlain and councilor, then Lower Austrian regimental councilor

Anton Franz Wolfradt (* 1582 in Cologne, † 1639 in Vienna) Privy Councilor, President of the Court Chamber, Abbot of Kremsmünster

Johann Baptist Spindler von Hofegg (see above) Hofkammerrat

Term of office: May 5, 1628 - August 30, 1628

Governor

(the following list is incomplete)

1. Adam Graf von Herberstorff (see above)
   Term of office: August 30, 1628 - September 11, 1629
2. Trio of eldest district administrator, lawyer and vice cathedral
   tenure: 1629 - 1630
   a) Dietmayr Schifer zu Freyling and Daxberg , oldest district councilor
   b) Martin Hafner , lawyer
   c) Constantin Grundemann von Falckenberg , vice cathedral
3. Hans Ludwig Graf von Kuefstein
   term of office: from 1629 until his death in 1656

• Johann Paul Spindler von Hofegg
  term of office: around 1632
• David Ungnad Count von Weissenwolff Term of
  office: around 1656/1657 - 1671
• Heinrich Wilhelm von Starhemberg (* 1592, † April 2, 1675)
  Term of office: from 1672/1671 - 1675
• Helmhart Christoph Graf von Weissenwolff Term of
  office: around 1675 - 1686
• Franz Joseph Prince von Lamberg (* 1637; † 1712)
  term of office: 1686–1712
• Christoph Wilhelm Graf von Thürheim (* 1661; † 1738)
  Term of office: 1713–1738
• Ferdinand Bonaventura Count von Weissenwolff (* 1693 - † December 30, 1781)
  Term of office: 1739 - September 1741

Country management of the kurbayr. Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns (1741/42)

Key dates 1628–1748
September 11, 1741: invasion of Bavarian and French troops; September 15, 1741: Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria enters Linz; October 2, 1741: The Upper Austrian estates pay homage to the new sovereign; Count Weissenwolff fled to Vienna

In 1741/42 there was a (Austrian) War of Succession . Karl Albert, Elector in Bavaria, did not recognize Maria Theresa, made himself Emperor Karl VII, acquired the title of Archduke of Austria and laid claim to Upper and Southern Lower Austria. Linz (and also Prague) was taken in a campaign. A French general acted as governor in Linz, as vice-governor to one of the electoral treasurers, as president and as state syndic (recorder) of the Bavarian-friendly politicians of Linz.

(Military) governor Henri François de Ségur (* 1689; † 1751 in Metz)

Deputy Governor Karl Count of Taufkirchen

president Christoph Wilhelm Graf von Thürheim (see above) (remains formally in office on the part of the estates until December 1742)

Landscape Syndic Dyonysius Adam Frideli

Term of office: October 2 - January 13, 1742

Presidents and Governors (1742 to 1783)

Key dates 1742–1783

January 13, 1742: Recapture of Linz April 16, 1742: Convocation of a state parliament December 18, 1742: Election of a president by the estates June 25, 1743: Hereditary homage to Prague (Ob-der-Hennsian estates have been summoned) April 22nd 1745 Peace of Füssen : Maximilian III. Joseph of Bavaria recognizes the Habsburgs' claim May 13, 1779 Peace of Teschen (War of the Bavarian Succession): Innviertel to Austria

During the takeover, an administrator and president were first appointed and then the previous governor reinstated. From 1748, Maria Theresa implemented fundamental reforms to push back the estates by setting up a rectification deputation and then installing the state government as a representation and chamber (separation of administration and justice, the creation and creation of district offices ) a president as head, the governor was only head of the judiciary. In 1754 one returned to the system of the state governance.

Administrator and [Provisional] President

• Johann Georg Leo Freiherr von Hoheneck Term of
  office: January 24, 1742 - December 18, 1742

Governor

• Ferdinand Bonaventura Count von Weissenwolff (* 1693; † 1781, see above )
  second term of office: December 18, 1742 - September 26, 1748
  Colonel Erb-Land Hofmeister

President of the Court Deputation

1. Franz Reinhold Graf von Andlern and Witten Term of
   office: September 26, 1748 - May 18, 1749 as President of the Court Deputation in militari mixta contributionali et camerali

President of the Representation and Chamber

1. Franz Reinhold Graf von Andlern and Witten
   continued term of office: May 18, 1749 - March 30, 1754

Governor:

1. Franz Reinhold Graf von Andlern and Witten
   continued term of office: March 30, 1754 - 1765
2. Christian Wilhelm II. Count von Thürheim Term of
   office: 1765 - November 1, 1783

Provincial President and Governor of the Crown Land of Austria ob der Enns (1783 to 1918)

After the Innviertel was acquired in the Treaty of Teschen in 1779/80 , the state of Austria ob der Enns was raised to an independent crown land by Emperor Joseph II in 1783/84 (although the constitutional position in relation to the Archduchy of Austria remained unclear until 1861). The provincial governing body and the council of estates were abolished, their business was taken over by a government with a president .

President of the State Government (1783 to 1848)

Key dates 1783–1848
1783/84: Crown land of Austria above the Enns May 3, 1809 Battle of Ebelsberg (near Linz) , Upper Austria occupied by the French October 14, 1809 Treaty of Schönbrunn , Innviertel to Bavaria June 9, 1815 Vienna Congress Act (restoration of the pre-war state)

In the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars , Franz II declared the Austrian Empire in 1804 (and was then Francis I of Austria) and in 1806 the Holy Roman Empire and German Kingship finished. This only affected the province of Upper Austria insofar as the subordination to the German king was no longer formally and the Emperor of Austria was now the sovereign head of the state, with which the Austrian archduchy (which only covers Upper and Lower Austria with Vienna, as well as the others in a broader sense) Hereditary lands , was related) increasingly lost their legal significance.

After the Bavarian interlude between 1809 and 15/16, the Salzburg district was also part of the crown land above the Enns until 1850 .

1. Christian Wilhelm II. Count von Thürheim Term of
   office: November 1, 1783 - 1786
2. Heinrich Franz Graf von Rottenhan (* 1738; † 1809)
   Term of office: 1787–1791
3. August Graf von Auersperg († 1827)
   term of office: 1791–1805
4. Johann Freiherr von Hackelberg zu Landau Term of
   office: 1806–1810
5. Christian Graf von Aicholt (* 1754; † 1838)
   term of office: 1810–1815
   1810–1812 provisional head of the state administration after the 4th Napoleonic War (was subordinate to the governor of Lower Austria under and above the Enns ); President at the end of 1812(independent again)
6. Bernhard Gottlieb Baron von Hingenau (* 1759; † 1833)
   Term of office: 1815–1827
7. Alois Graf von Ugarte (* 1784; † 1845)
   term of office: 1827–1834
8. Rudolph Fürst Kinsky von Wchnitz und Tettau (* 1802 in Prague, † 1836 in Linz)
   Term of office: 1834–27. January 1836
9. Anton Philipp von Skrbensky von Hrzistie (* 1789; † 1876) Term of
   office: July 13, 1836 - 1848

Governor (1849 to 1861)

Key dates 1849–1861
March 4, 1849: October constitution (absolutist constitution) November 30, 1849: State constitution (including state parliament election regulations) December 31, 1851: New Year's Eve patent (restoration of pre-revolutionary ministerialism)

Administrative reform in 1849 after the revolution : abolition of the manors, end of the estates constitution, reorganization of the political administration and the courts (46  mixed district offices without separation of administration and judiciary, during this time also the establishment of the local parishes ).

1. Alois Fischer (* 1796; † 1883)
   Term of office: January 1, 1849 - May 4, 1851
2. Eduard Freiherr von Bach (* 1814; † 1884)
   Term of office: from May 4, 1851 (continued until May 1851)

Heads of State, Governors (1861 to 1918)

Key dates 1861–1918

October 20, 1860: October diploma (constitution for the empire in the form of a constitutional monarchy, and for some crown lands) March 21, 1861: Land ordinance March 26, 1861: February patent (constitution for the other Cisleithan countries, including Austria above the Enns) December 21, 1867: December constitution ( constitution for the Cisleithan countries in Austria-Hungary) January 29, 1909: Landtag election regulations

In 1861, the crown land of Austria ob der Enns was finally confirmed as a separate archduchy within the framework of the new constitution . The first (still far from popular) elected Landtag was elected at the end of March 1861 and was constituted on April 6th.

In 1867 the Austrian Empire was converted into the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy after the equalization . This only played a role in regional history, as Upper Austria now belonged to the state of Cisleithanien , the kingdoms and states represented in the Imperial Council, and from 1915 to the Austrian states .

The constitution stipulated that the emperor should appoint a head of state for each crown land , in most crown lands, including Austria ob der Enns, still with the title imperial  governor , and that he would act as the emperor's representative as sovereign and the imperial government in Vienna. Furthermore, the emperor appointed a member of the state parliament as governor with the function of chairman of the state parliament and chairman of the executive committee of the state parliament called the state committee .

Governor (head of state) Eduard Freiherr von Bach (see above) continued term of office: until May 22, 1862 Franz Freiherr von Spiegelfeld (* 1802 - † 1885) Term of office: April 28, 1863 - January 8, 1867 Eduard Graf Taaffe (* 1833 - † 1895) Term of office: January 8, 1867 - March 6, 1867 Ignaz Freiherr von Schurda (* 1822 - † 1879) Term of office: March 7, 1867 - July 24, 1868 Karl Sigmund Graf von Hohenwart zu Gerlachstein (* 1824 - † 1899) Term of office: July 24, 1868 - February 6, 1871 Sigmund Freiherr Conrad von Eybesfeld (* 1821; † 1898) Term of office: May 19, 1871 - October 9, 1872 Otto Freiherr von Wiedenfeld (* 1816 - † 1877) Term of office: October 9, 1872 - August 5, 1877 Bohuslav Ritter von Widmann (* 1836 - † 1911) Term of office: December 9, 1877 - August 12, 1879 Felix Freiherr Pino von Friedenthal (* 1825 - † 1906) Term of office: August 13, 1879 - January 14, 1881 Lothar Metternich-Winneburg (* 1837; † 1901) Term of office (exercising): January 14, 1881 - September 5, 1881 Philip Freiherr Weber von Ebenhof (* 1818; † 1900) Term of office: September 5, 1881 - July 8, 1889 Franz Carl Graf Merveldt (* 1844 - † 1916) Term of office: July 9, 1889 - June 24, 1890 Viktor Freiherr von Puthon (* 1842 - † 1919) Term of office: June 24, 1890 - February 13, 1902 Arthur Graf Bylandt-Rheidt (* 1854 - † 1915) Term of office: December 13, 1902 - January 1, 1905 Erasmus Freiherr von Handel (* 1860 - † 1928) First term: January 20, 1905 - August 27, 1916 vacant August 27, 1916 - January 31, 1917 Rudolf von Meran (* 1872 in Graz; † 1959 in Salzburg) Term of office: January 31, 1917 - October 30, 1917 Erasmus Freiherr von Handel Second term: October 20, 1917 - November 2, 1918

Governor Dominik Lebschy (* 1799; † 1884) Term of office: March 31, 1861 - May 15, 1868 Karl Wiser (* 1800 in Vienna; † 1889 in Linz) Term of office (exercising): May 15, 1868 - June 24, 1868 Moritz Eigner (* 1822; † 1900) First term: June 24, 1868 - September 13, 1871 Julius Graf von Falkenhayn (* 1829 in Vienna; † 1899 ibid) Term of office: September 13, 1871 - December 17, 1871 Moritz Eigner Second term of office: December 18, 1871 - September 9, 1884 Karl Grienberger (* 1824; † 1909) Term of office (exercising): September 9, 1884 - September 14, 1884 Leonard Achleuthner , Abbot of Kremsmünster (* 1826 - † 1905) Term of office: September 14, 1884 - January 26, 1897 Michael Freiherr von Kast (* 1859 - † 1932) Term of office: January 26, 1897 - May 6, 1898 Alfred Ebenhoch (* 1855 - † 1912) Term of office: May 6, 1898 - December 30, 1907 Ernst Jäger , CS (* 1847 - † 1929) Term of office (exercising): December 30, 1907 - May 4, 1908 Johann Nepomuk Hauser , CS (* 1866; † 1927) Term of office: May 4, 1908 - November 12, 1918 Continuation of office in the republic

Governors in the federal state of Upper Austria (1918/19 until today)

Key dates 1919–1938

November 2, 1918: The Imperial and Royal Governor transfers his business to the provisional state government in Upper Austria. November 11, 1918: Emperor Charles I resigns from the government, end of state rule November 14, 1918: (State) law regarding the assumption of state power in the federal states November 18, 1918: The provisional provincial assembly of Upper Austria is constituted March 18, 1919: Law on the main features of state representation (and state election regulations) May 15, 1919: The Upper Austria. Landtag is constituted June 17, 1930: State Constitutional Law ( and the rules of procedure of the state parliament, state election regulations March 5, 1931) February 27, 1934: State Constitutional Law ( Rules of Procedure of the State Parliament October 29, 1934) May 1, 1934: May constitution (dictatorial constitution for Austria) July 9, 1935: State Constitution 1935

On October 30, 1918, the state of German Austria was founded as a republic. In connection with the peace treaty, he changed his name to the Republic of Austria on October 21, 1919 .

The country leadership and administration, which was divided in the monarchy, was abolished in Austria, which was organized federally from 1920 :

The term governor in its current scope has existed since November 10, 1920. The Austrian Federal Constitution grants the governor a special position: as chairman of the state government elected by the state parliament and formal head of the state within the federal constitution - and at the same time as a federal body in the indirect federal administration responsible to the respective federal minister and therefore sworn by the federal president . Accordingly, he is the most important representative of state power at the state level.

It was not until 1930 that the federal state received its fully developed constitution, which is still in force today ( constitution of October 11, 1930 in the re-published version of October 9, 1991 , L-VG 1991).

Governors of Upper Austria (First Republic and Corporate State, 1919 to 1938)

The time until annexation to Nazi Germany is referred to in Austria as the First Republic ; some authors do not include the corporate state dictatorship 1934–1938, when the rulers avoided the word republic.

The state was now finally called Upper Austria and one of the nine federal states of the new republic from 1921 onwards . The republic was transformed into the Dollfuss-Schuschnigg federal state of Austria (the corporate state) in 1934 . The state regulations remained largely unaffected, but no democratic elections were held until 1945. In 1936 all parties (social democracy and communists had long since been banned) were united in the Fatherland Front .

1. Johann Nepomuk Hauser , CS
   (continued) term of office: November 18, 1918 - February 8, 1927
   previously since May 4, 1908 governor according to the constitution of 1861 (see above)
2. Josef Schlegel , CS Term of
   office: February 23, 1927 - February 17, 1934
3. Heinrich Gleißner , VF
   term of office: March 1, 1934 - March 12, 1938

Reich governor of the Reichsgau Upper Danube (German Empire, 1938 to 1945)

Key dates 1938–1945
March 13, 1938: Hitler in Linz (March 12, German troops march in, connection formally completed on March 13) April 14, 1939: (Reich) law on the establishment of the administration in the Ostmark

From 1938 to 1945 Upper Austria was part of the Ostmark (from 1939 Reichsgau ) and from 1942 the Danube and Alpenreichsgaue . During the state's membership of the German Reich , the Reichsstatthalter was the highest representative of the Berlin Reich Government in the Reichsgau Upper Danube (from 1939 on the name Upper Austria, with the then German areas in South Bohemia, as they had been sought in 1918/19 as part of German Austria, and with the Styrian Salzkammergut). The Reichsstatthalter was also the Gauleiter of the NSDAP party organization and was therefore usually referred to as such in his official government function.

1. August Eigruber , NSDAP
   term of office: March 14, 1938 - May 5, 1945

Governors of Upper Austria (Second Republic, since 1945) and High Commissioners (1945–1955)

Key data 1945 – today

May 5, 1945: Handover of the city of Linz to the Americans without a fight (May 8, 1945: surrender on all fronts) May 17, 1945: provisional state government November 25, 1945: first post-war state election (also election to the National Council) March 20, 1946: re-enactment of the 1930 state constitution (amendments 1954, 1971, 1991; state parliament election regulations July 23, 1949) May 15, 1955: State Treaty (entered into force on July 27, 1955) October 25, 1955: End of the 90-day period for the withdrawal of the occupation troops January 1, 1995: Austria joins the EU

Since the restoration of the republic in April / May 1945 one speaks of the Second Republic .

The borders of the Austrian federal states were also restored before the Nazi dictatorship and were each subordinate to a high commissioner of the Allied Control Commission for Austria . Upper Austria south of the Danube belonged to the US occupation zone , the Mühlviertel to the Soviet zone , whose high commissioners also set up a civil administration Mühlviertel .

Initially installed as a provisional government by agreement between the SPÖ , ÖVP and KPÖ with the consent of the Soviet Union, the Renner cabinet prepared free elections for the fall of 1945 for the state parliaments as well, through which elected parliaments at federal and state level were established. The occupation ended in 1955.

In 1995 Austria joined the European Union , which means that there are now two levels in the hierarchy of the legal system above the state legislation: federal legislation and EU legislation, which must be observed when making state decisions.

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Governor Adolf Eigl , non-party term of office: May 16, 1945 - October 25, 1945 Heinrich Gleißner , ÖVP Second term: October 26, 1945 - May 2, 1971 Erwin Wenzl , ÖVP term of office: May 3, 1971 - October 19, 1977 Josef Ratzenböck , ÖVP term of office: October 19, 1977 - March 2, 1995 Josef Pühringer , ÖVP term of office: since March 2, 1995 - April 5, 2017 Thomas Stelzer , ÖVP term of office: since April 6, 2017

US High Commissioner: Mark W. Clark 1945-1947 Geoffrey Keyes 1947-1950 Walter J. Donnelly 1950-1952 Llewellyn E. Thompson 1950-1955

Soviet High Commissioner: Iwan S. Konew 1945-1946 Vladimir W. Kurasov 1946–1949 Vladimir P. Sviridov 1949–1953 Ivan I. Ilyichev 1953–1955

See also

• List of Austrian provincial governors (Republic of Austria, detailed)

literature

Middle Ages:

• Max Weltlin: Contributions to the history of the main team above the Enns in the 13th and 14th centuries. Phil. Dissertation, typewritten, Vienna 1970, 99 pages.
• Alois Zauner : Results of fifty years of research on the medieval history of Upper Austria . In: Society for regional studies - Upper Austrian Museum Association (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . 128a. Linz 1983, p. 45–83 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Early modern age:

• Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : The laudable gentlemen gentlemen estates deß Ertz-Hertzogthumb Austria on the Ennß . 1st chapter. Gabriel Mangold, Hoch-Fürstliche Hof-Buchdruckerei, Passau 1727 ( Google Book ).
• Gerhard Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries . In: Communications from the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives . tape 9 . Linz 1968, p. 265–290 ( 1st part, pp. 265–277 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, 2nd part, pp. 278–290 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
• Johann Schwerdling: History of the ancient and for centuries the sovereign and fatherland most deserved, partly princely, partly count dynasty Starhemberg . Jos. Feichtinger , Linz 1830 ( landesbibliothek.at ; Google Book in the Google book search).

Web links

• Ben Cahoon: Austrian Lands before 1918: Österreich ob der Enns (Austria above the Enns) . In: worldstatesmen.org, 2000, accessed August 4, 2019.
• Province of Upper Austria: Events from 1740 to 1918. Timeline on land-oberoesterreich.gv.at.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Johann Georg Adam Freiherr von Hoheneck: The laudable gentlemen gentlemen estates deß Ertz-Hertzogthumb Austria on the Ennß. As: prelates, lords, knights and cities . tape 1 . Gabriel Mangold, Hoch-Fürstliche Hof-Buchdruckerei, Passau 1727, p. 4 ( Google Book ).
2. ↑ King Rudolf I von Habsburg leased the area in 1276 as a future dowry from his daughter, to the Wittelbacher Duke Heinrich (I) von Niederbayern , whose son she was promised. At the time Heinrich was also employed as governor (vicar) throughout Austria, but in 1278 he passed over to Ottokar. After the battle of Dürnkrut, Rudolf Heinrich forgives, but does not want to let the ob-der-ennsischen lands fall to Bavaria and moves it back in.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Zauner: Results of fifty years of research on the medieval history of Upper Austria. 1983, p. 56 , PDF, p. 12 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Events from the 10th century to 1493 . land-oberoesterreich.gv.at> Our country> State history> From the Stone Age to the present> Otakare and Babenberger; accessed November 16, 2014.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Habsburgs . land-oberoesterreich.gv.at> Our country> State history> From the Stone Age to the present, there 2nd paragraph; accessed November 16, 2014.
6. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 265 , 1st PDF, p. 4 .
7. ↑ Zibermeier: Noricum. P. 444. Quoted in Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 266 , 1st PDF, p. 5 .
8. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 268 ff .
9. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 267 .
10. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 275 .
11. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 274 , 1st PDF, p. 13 .
12. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 271 ff .
13. ^ ^{A b} Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 283 , 2nd PDF, p. 9 .
14. ↑ ^{a b c} In contrast to Styria, where a complete row of the capitanei is assured, Wok von Rosenberg held this position only from 1256 to 1260 at the latest and Konrad von Summerau is only attested as chief district judge in 1264. The captain Burkhard von Klingenberg did not appear until December 1274; according to Alois Zauner: Ottokar II. Premysl and Upper Austria. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. 1979, p. 72, PDF on ZOBODAT
15. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries . 1968, p. 266 , 1st PDF, p. 5 .
16. ^ ^{A b c d} Zauner: Results of fifty years of research on the medieval history of Upper Austria. 1983, p. 59 , PDF, p. 15 .
17. ↑ cf. Family articles Abensperg and Traun: Important family members
18. ^ Franz von Krones:  Walsee, Eberhard v . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 5-16. (Family item).
19. ^ Haider: History of Upper Austria . P. 112.
20. ^ Zauner: Results of fifty years of research on the medieval history of Upper Austria. 1983, p. 62 , PDF, p. 18 .
21. ↑ Schwerdling 1830, p. 63 (digitized version).
22. ^ ^{A b} Zauner: Results of fifty years of research on the medieval history of Upper Austria. 1983, p. 63 , PDF, p. 19 .
23. ↑ ^{a b c} Schwerdling 1830, p. 139 (digitized version).
24. ^ Hermann Wiesflecker: Austria in the age of Maximilian I. The unification of the countries to the early modern state. The rise to world power . Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7028-0363-7 , p. 70.
25. ^ Haider: History of Upper Austria . P. 113.
26. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 284 , 2nd PDF, p. 10 .
27. ^ ^{A b} Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 267 , 1st PDF, p. 6 .
28. ^ ^{A b} Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, footnote 127, p. 287 , 2nd PDF, p. 13 .
29. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, footnote 74, p. 276/277 , 1st PDF, pp. 14/15 .
30. ^ ^{A b} Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 286 , 2nd PDF, p. 12 . As well as footnote 121, ibid.
31. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 267 , 1st PDF, p. 6 . As well as footnote 86 p. 779 (2nd PDF, p. 5).
32. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, footnote 89, p. 279/280 , 2nd PDF, p. 5/6 .
33. ^ Anton Rolleder: Genealogy of the Lamberg family. Steyr 1912, [typewriter] manuscript in Upper Austria. State Archives. Quoted in Lamberg . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
34. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 285 , 2nd PDF, p. 11 .
35. ↑ cf. Luther and Upper Austria . OÖNachrichten, 30 | 08 | 2008
36. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, footnote 87, p. 279 , 2nd PDF, p. 5 .
37. ^ Rudolf Schierer: The Barons Hegenmüller von Dubenweiler zu Albrechtsberg (near Melk - Loosdorf). Your rise and fall . A contribution to the history of the homeland. Self-published, St. Pölten, OCLC 23909601 , Johann Ruprecht Hegenmüller , p. 3–7 (no year specified).
38. ^ ^{A b} Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 276 ff., 289 , 1. PDF, p. 154 ff; 2. PDF, p. 4 f .
39. ↑ ^{a b} named in: Thomas Winkelbauer: Prince and Prince Servant: Gundaker von Liechtenstein, an Austrian aristocrat of the confessional age. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-486-64837-9 (= volume 34 of communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research: supplementary volume ), p. 42 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
40. ↑ Schwerdling 1830, p. 200 (digitized version).
41. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, footnote 121, p. 286 , 2nd PDF, p. 12 .
42. ↑ Schwerdling 1830, p. 218 f (digitized version).
43. ↑ ^{a b} Schwerdling 1830, p. 267 f (Chapter 239. Mrs. Anna Dorothea ; digitized version ). ; Google Book in Google Book Search.
44. ↑ named in: Jakob Christoph Beck , August Johann Burtorff, Jakob Christoph Iselin : Neu- Vermehrtes Historisch- und Geographisches Allgemeine Lexicon. Brandmüller Verlag, 1744, Volume 1, entry Salburg II. (A), p. 83 ( Google Book in Google Book Search).
45. ^ ^{A b} Court registers : Court of Emperor Ferdinand II 1627 . In: Patronage and Lientel systems at the Viennese court. ( Home ). University of Vienna - Institute for History.
46. ↑ from July 6th (decree of July 1st) with Constantin Grundemann von Falkenberg also imperial commissioner for the takeover of the Salzkammergut . Mentioned in: Franz Hufnagl: The toll to Gmunden: History of the development of the Salzkammergut . Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77762-5 .
47. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, p. 287 , 2nd PDF, p. 13 .
48. ^ Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, footnote 95, p. 282 , 2nd PDF, p. 8 .
49. ^ ^{A b} Putschögl: Governor and State Attorney in Austria on the Enns in the 16th and 17th centuries. 1968, footnote 25, p. 276 , 1st PDF, p. 7 .
50. ↑ Schwerdling 1830, p. 253 ff (digitized version).
51. ↑ Especially on the War of Succession in Upper Austria:
    • Maria Theresa. Reforms of Maria Theresa and acquisition of the Innviertel . In: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at.
    • Gustav Otruba : The Hereditary Tributes of the Upper Austrian Estates 1732 - 1741 - 1743. A study on the history of the loyal behavior of the clergy, nobility and bourgeoisie towards Charles VI, Karl Albert and Maria Theresa. In: Communications from the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives. Volume 16, Linz 1990, pp. 135–301, entry with 8 PDF files for download in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, esp. The following chapters:
      III. The death of Charles VI, the Pragmatic Sanction, the Wittelsbachers' inheritance claims and the hereditary homage (1741). Pp. 161-191;
      IV. The reconquest of the country Ob der Enns by Khevenhüller's royal troops and the punishment of the faithless. Pp. 191-204;
      V. From the files of the investigative commission: Appeals for clemency and letters of justification. Pp. 204-191.
    contemporary sources:
    • Churbairisches Manifest. Munich, 1741.
    • Oesterr. War of Succession, thorough execution and clear evidence of the succession and other rights to ... Austria, Bohemia, etc. , fol., Munich 1741.
    • War of Succession 1742 to 1743, Diary vnd respective awkward - Written as briefly as possible - Truthful reasons, memorable description of the Bavarian- and French unfair-hostile incursion into all-around Archduchess Austria above the Ennss. In the year 1741. Dan What happened in the following two years 1742 and 1743 before In- and after, besieged by the Royal Hungarian and Austrian Army and against the conquered city of Lintz. In: Mscr. des Museum No. 181, anthology.
    • GA Hoheneck: that wars dermal but, after villas endured war Trangsallen, again famous Archduchy of Austria on the Enns. (1740 to 1745.) In: Mscr. of the Museum No. 88 / c and No. 142 ( book title in the forum OoeGeschichte.at).
52. ↑ Mentioned in Hoheneck: that Bekriegte ... , listing Den from the first to the twenty-third January but in the said bloqued and finally besieged city with disrupted nobility was the following , last entry; OÖLA: Schlüsselberg Volume 18, p. 206 ff (229 f, 268); cited in Otruba 1990, p. 199 (4th PDF, p. 4).
53. ↑ Hoheneck. OÖLA: Schluesselberg Volume 18, pp 207, 208; in: Otruba 1990, p. 199 (4th PDF, p. 4).
54. ↑ ^{a b} Otruba 1990, p. 200 (4th PDF, p. 5).
55. ↑ cf. Country = Syndic . In: Johann Georg Krünitz: Economic Encyclopedia . 1773-1858, 63, p. 502 (online kruenitz1.uni-trier.de). Country Counsel. high country official . German legal dictionary (online Uni Heidelberg).
56. ↑ Gottlieb Schumann: Annual genealogical handbook. Verlag Gleditsch, 1747, p. 175 ( Google Book in the Google book search).
57. ↑ Election by the Herrenstand, OÖLA: Schlüsselberg Volume 18, p. 235. Quoted in Otruba 1990, p. 214 (4th PDF, p. 19).
58. ↑ Hand ticket from Schönbrunn dd 1749 on May 1st
59. ^ Son of the genealogist and historian Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck.
60. ↑ Joseph II . Province of Upper Austria: land-oberoesterreich.gv.at> Our country> State history .
61. ↑ Wurzbach: Ugarte, Alois Graf . In: Biographical Lexicon. 48th part. Vienna 1883, pp. 230–232 ( digitized version ) .; Árpád Győry from Nádudvar:  Ugarte, Alois Graf von und zu . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 137-139.
62. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} Constitution of Upper Austria / Austria ^above the Enns . on verfassungen.de.
63. ^ Franz Satzinger: "Vöcklabruck" City History - From the Beginnings to 1850 . The princely city of Vöcklabruck in Attergau in the field of tension between Bavaria and Austria from the beginnings to 1850. Kilian Verlagsges.mbH, Vöcklabruck 2006, ISBN 3-901745-16-5 , Chapter 12 The revolution of 1848 and its effects on the end of the city magistrates and Patrimonial rule , section Administrative reform under the sign of neo-absolutism ( voecklabruck.at [PDF; accessed on September 8, 2011]).
64. ^ Führer and Chancellor Hitler in Linz. In: Neue Freie Presse of March 13, 1938; Original article reproduced in DiePresse.com , March 13, 2008.