List of mayors of Linz

This list includes all mayors of the Upper Austrian capital Linz from 1821 onwards. The city leaders who were previously in this office are only given incomplete.

Habsburg monarchy before 1804

• 1718–1734: Johann Adam Pruner
• 1765–1778: Johann Michael Scheibenpogen

Mayor in the Austrian Empire

The mayors were not elected until the March Revolution of 1848. In 1848 parts of the population were given the right to vote, depending on income and property. Large parts of the population, such as women, were excluded from the right to vote. The first mayor, elected by a citizens' committee, was the democratically minded Reinhold Körner . When, from 1850 onwards, the achievements of the revolution were largely reversed by the emergence of neo-absolutism , Linz received a municipal code that severely restricted the right to vote to the property and educated bourgeoisie. Of the 27,000 inhabitants, only around 1,600, or six percent, were eligible to vote in the first municipal council elections in 1850. Women were completely excluded. The mayor was elected by the 30 municipal councilors elected every three years. Reinhold Körner emerged as mayor again in the first municipal council election.

When neo-absolutism developed fully from the New Year's Eve patent of 1851, the liberal bourgeoisie was pushed out of political life. As the most prominent representative of this section of the population, the avowed democrat Karl Wiser resigned from his political post in 1854 . Mayor Reinhold Körner followed in 1854. New elections were postponed indefinitely, so that by 1861 three provisional mayors who were not elected by the people were put into office: Johann Heinrich Jungwirth for only two days (March 21-23 , 1854), Joseph Dierzer von Traunthal and Vinzenz Fink .

• 1821–1848: Joseph Bischoff
• 1848–1854: Reinhold Körner , liberal
• 1854–1854: Johann Heinrich Jungwirth , liberal
• 1854–1856: Josef Dierzer von Traunthal , liberal
• 1856–1861: Vinzenz Fink , liberal
• 1861–1867: Reinhold Körner, liberal

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  Reinhold Koerner

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  Josef Dierzer from Traunthal

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  Vincent Fink

Mayor of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy

• 1867–1873 Viktor Drouot , liberal
• 1873–1885 Karl Wiser , liberal
• 1885–1894 Johann Evangelist Wimhölzel , liberal
• 1894–1900 Franz Poche , liberal
• 1900–1907 Gustav Eder , German national
• 1907–1918 Franz Dinghofer , German national

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  Viktor Drouot

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  Karl Wiser

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  Johann Evangelist Wimhölzel

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  Franz Poche

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  Gustav Eder

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  Franz Dinghofer

Mayor of the First Republic

• 1918–1919 Karl Sadleder , German Freedom and Order Party
• 1919–1927 Josef Dametz , SDAP
• 1927–1929 Robert Mehr , SDAP
• 1929–1930 Eduard Euller , SDAP
• 1930–1934 Josef Gruber , SDAP
• 1934–1938 Wilhelm Bock , CS

Mayor during National Socialism

• 1938–1940 Sepp Wolkerstorfer , NSDAP
• 1940–1944 Leopold Sturma , NSDAP
• 1944–1945 Franz Langoth , NSDAP

Mayor of the Second Republic

• 1945–1962 Ernst Koref , SPÖ
• 1962–1968 Edmund Aigner , SPÖ
• 1968–1969 Theodor Grill , SPÖ
• 1969–1984 Franz Hillinger , SPÖ
• 1984–1988 Hugo Schanovsky , SPÖ
• 1988–2013 Franz Dobusch , SPÖ
• from 2013 Klaus Luger , SPÖ

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  Franz Dobusch

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  Klaus Luger

literature

• Georg Grüll : The Linz mayor's book (= special publications on the history of the city of Linz. 1953). Published by the City of Linz, City Archives , 2nd expanded edition, Linz 1959, 181 pages and 38 plates.