List of personalities of the city of Lienz
This list of the personalities of the city of Lienz lists all the personalities who are important for Lienz and its history, that is, who have played a decisive role here or whose person is closely associated with the name »Lienz«. The list also includes people who were born or died in Lienz without having played a significant role here.
Sons and daughters
- Raimund Abraham (1933–2010), Austrian-American architect and professor of architecture
- Johann Dominicus Aigner (1761–1848), Lienz mayor from 1805 to 1809
- Peter Birker (* 1970), historian and political scientist
- Maria Brunner (* 1962), Austrian painter
- Theodor Danegger (1891–1959), Austrian opera singer and actor
- Bernhard Eisendle (* 1939), Austrian painter
- Eberhard Forcher (* 1954), Austrian musician, band leader, teacher, presenter and DJ
- Michael Forcher (* 1941), Austrian publisher and publicist
- Josef Gasser (1873–1957), Austrian composer and church musician
- Peter Gridling (* 1957), Director of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism
- Werner Grißmann (* 1952), Austrian ski racer, inventor of the Dolomite Man
- Franz Xaver Gruber (* 1968), politician and executive city councilor of the state capital Innsbruck
- Siegfried Hafner (1925–2013), sculptor
- Ulfried Haselsteiner (* 1970), Austrian opera singer (tenor)
- Dominic Hassler (* 1981), Austrian soccer player
- Karl Hofmann (1852–1926), landscape painter
- Andy Holzer (* 1966), mountaineer, extreme athlete and lecture traveler
- Gerhard Huber (* 1965), entrepreneur and politician
- Uwe Ladstädter (* 1942), Austrian writer
- Egon Leitner (* 1965), biathlete
- Ekard Lind (* 1945), musician and dog educator
- Sandi Lovrić (* 1998), football player
- Alexander Lugger (* 1968), ski mountaineer and national trainer
- Helga Machne (* 1938), politician
- Gerald Mair (* 1988), Austrian conductor
- Wolfgang Mair (* 1980), Austrian soccer player
- Wolfgang Mitterer (* 1958), musician (organ, keyboards) and composer
- Albert Muchar (1786–1849), historian and Austrian writer
- Rudolf Niklas (1906–1972), farmer and politician
- Hannes Oberwalder (* 1967), music producer, keyboard player and pianist
- Peter Ortner (* 1983), mountaineer and climber
- Hermann Pedit (1933–2014), Austrian painter and sculptor
- Meinrad Pizzinini (* 1943), historian and author
- Thomas Reider (* 1980), screenwriter and director
- Verena Remler (* 1972), politician
- Maximilian Ritscher (* 1994), soccer player
- Andreas Rohracher (1892–1976), Archbishop of Salzburg
- Hubert Rohracher (1903–1972), Austrian psychologist
- Georg Rösch von Geroldshausen (1501–1565), office secretary and poet
- Michael Rotschopf (* 1969), Austrian actor
- Martin Scharnagl (* 1988), musician and composer
- Karl E. Schedl (1898–1979), entomologist and forest scientist
- Mario Scheiber (* 1983), ski racer
- Roland Schwarzl (* 1980), Austrian athlete
- Harald Stadler (* 1959), archaeologist
- Anton Steiner (* 1958), former Austrian ski racer
- Lisi Steurer (* 1979), Austrian mountaineer and climber
- Josef Stiegler (* 1937), Olympic gold medalist 1964 in Innsbruck (slalom)
- Heinrich Stremitzer (1936–2016), business economist, university lecturer in Vienna
- Fritz Strobl (* 1972), former ski racer
- Josef Teichmann (* 1972), financial mathematician
- Brigitte Tegischer (* 1960), social worker and politician
- Anton Thuswaldner (* 1956), literary critic
- Valérie von Martens (actually Valérie Pajér Edle von Mayersperg, 1894–1986), Austrian-German actress
- Franz Walchegger (1913–1965), a pioneer of modern painting in Tyrol
- Edmund Wallensteiner (* 1962), guitarist of the pop band " Nockalm Quintett "
- Beda Weber , actually Johann Chrysanth Weber, (1798–1858), writer, theologian and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49
- Fanny Wibmer-Pedit (1890–1967), writer
- Hermann Wiesflecker (1913–2009), historian
- Christoph Zanon (1951–1997), teacher and writer
Mayor of the City of Lienz
The office of mayor was introduced in Lienz in 1638 by Count Hans Wolkenstein-Rodenegg (noble family).
Unfortunately, nothing is known of the first mayors. The first documented mayor comes from an old Lienz bourgeois family:
- Josef Oberhueber, 1797–1805
- Johann Dominicus Aigner, 1805-1809
- Johann Franz Röck, 1809–1811
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From 1866, the mayors were from the town and council elected
- Josef Albert Kranz, 1866–1869
- Alois Röck, 1869–1872
- Carl Sartori, 1872–1881
- Otto Carli, 1881-1883
- Johann Capistran Oberhueber, 1883–1886
- Franz Rohracher, 1886–1891
- Johann Sigwart, 1891–1894
- Willibald Hofmann, 1894–1900
- Josef Anton Rohracher, 1900–1913, 1919–1922
- Johann Oberhueber, 1913–1919, 1922–1928
- Theodor von Hibler, 1928–1931
- Franz Henggi, 1931-1938
- Emil Winkler, 1938–1945
- Johann Ignaz Oberhueber, 1945–1947, honorary citizen of the city of Lienz
- Alois Pichler, 1947-1950
- Michael Meirer, 1950–1962
- Hubert Huber , 1962–1994, honorary citizen of the city of Lienz
- Helga Machne , 1994-2003
- Johannes Hibler, 2003–2011
- Elisabeth Blanik , since 2011
Other personalities
- Franz von Defregger , painter, born in Stronach in the district of Iselsberg-Stronach in 1835 , died in Munich in 1921
- Albin Egger-Lienz , painter, in 1868 Stribach born in 1926 in St. Justina (Bolzano) died
- Johann Paterer , sculptor, born in Hopfgarten in Defereggen in 1712, died in Lienz in 1785; worked in Lienz from 1738