Foreign Minister of Austria
The list of Austrian Foreign Ministers includes the incumbents of the Republic of German-Austria, the First Austrian Republic, the Federal State of Austria and the Second Austrian Republic from 30 October 1918 up to today. During the time of the Anschluss to Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945, Austria had no government in its own right.
The current Foreign Minister of Austria is Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP), serving in the cabinet of Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann in this position since 16 December 2013.
List of officeholders (1918–present)
| № | Portrait | Minister (Birth–Death) |
Term of Office | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Victor Adler (1852–1918) | 30 October 1918 | 11 November 1918 | Social Democratic Workers' Party |
| 2 |  | Otto Bauer (1881–1938) | 21 November 1918 | 26 July 1919 | Social Democratic Workers' Party |
| 3 |  | Karl Renner (1870–1950) | 26 July 1919 | 21 October 1919 | Social Democratic Workers' Party |
| № | Portrait | Minister (Birth–Death) |
Term of Office | Party | |
| (3) | | Karl Renner (1870–1950) | 21 October 1919 | 22 October 1920 | Social Democratic Workers' Party |
| 4 |  | Michael Mayr (1864–1922) | 22 October 1920 | 21 June 1921 | Christian Social Party |
| 5 |  | Johann Schober (1874–1932) | 21 June 1921 | 26 January 1922 | Non-partisan (Beamter) |
| 6 |  | Walter Breisky (1871–1944) | 26 January 1922 | 27 January 1922 | Christian Social Party |
| 7 |  | Leopold Hennet (1876–1950) | 27 January 1922 | 31 May 1922 | Non-partisan (Beamter) |
| 8 | | Alfred Grünberger (1875–1935) | 31 May 1922 | 20 November 1924 | Christian Social Party |
| 9 |  | Heinrich Mataja (1877–1937) | 20 November 1924 | 15 January 1926 | Christian Social Party |
| 10 |  | Rudolf Ramek (1881–1941) | 15 January 1926 | 20 October 1926 | Christian Social Party |
| 11 |  | Ignaz Seipel (1876–1932) | 20 October 1926 | 4 May 1929 | Christian Social Party |
| 12 |  | Ernst Streeruwitz (1874–1952) | 4 May 1929 | 26 September 1929 | Christian Social Party |
| (5) | | Johann Schober (1874–1932) | 26 September 1929 | 30 September 1930 | Non-partisan (Beamter) |
| (11) | | Ignaz Seipel (1876–1932) | 30 September 1930 | 4 December 1930 | Christian Social Party |
| (5) | | Johann Schober (1874–1932) | 4 December 1930 | 29 January 1932 | Non-partisan (Beamter) |
| 13 |  | Karl Buresch (1878–1936) | 29 January 1932 | 20 May 1932 | Christian Social Party |
| 14 |  | Engelbert Dollfuss (1892–1934) | 20 May 1932 | 1 May 1934 | Christian Social Party |
| (14) | Fatherland Front | ||||
| № | Portrait | Minister (Birth–Death) |
Term of Office | Party | |
| (14) | | Engelbert Dollfuss (1892–1934) | 1 May 1934 | 10 July 1934 | Fatherland Front |
| 15 | | Stephan Tauschitz (1889–1970) | 10 July 1934 | 3 August 1934 | Landbund |
| (15) | Fatherland Front | ||||
| 16 | | Egon Berger-Waldenegg (1880–1960) | 3 August 1934 | 14 May 1936 | Fatherland Front |
| 17 |  | Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977) | 14 May 1936 | 11 July 1936 | Fatherland Front |
| 18 | | Guido Schmidt (1901–1957) | 11 July 1936 | 11 March 1938 | Fatherland Front |
| 19 | | Wilhelm Wolf (1897–1939) | 11 March 1938 | 13 March 1938 | National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| Austria annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938. Independence restored in 1945. | |||||
| № | Portrait | Minister (Birth–Death) |
Term of Office | Party | |
| 20 | .JPG) | Karl Gruber (1909–1995) | 26 September 1945 | 26 November 1953 | Austrian People's Party |
| 21 |  | Leopold Figl (1902–1965) | 26 November 1953 | 9 June 1959 | Austrian People's Party |
| 22 |  | Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990) | 9 June 1959 | 19 April 1966 | Socialist Party |
| 23 |  | Lujo Tončić-Sorinj (1915–2005) | 19 April 1966 | 19 January 1968 | Austrian People's Party |
| 24 |  | Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007) | 19 January 1968 | 21 April 1970 | Austrian People's Party |
| 25 |  | Rudolf Kirchschläger (1915–2000) | 21 April 1970 | 24 June 1974 | Non-partisan |
| 26 | | Erich Bielka (1908–1992) | 24 June 1974 | 30 September 1976 | Non-partisan |
| 27 | .jpg) | Willibald Pahr (1930–) | 30 September 1976 | 24 May 1983 | Non-partisan |
| 28 | | Erwin Lanc (1930–) | 24 May 1983 | 10 September 1984 | Socialist Party |
| 29 | .jpg) | Leopold Gratz (1929–2006) | 10 September 1984 | 16 June 1986 | Socialist Party |
| 30 | | Peter Jankowitsch (1933–) | 16 June 1986 | 21 January 1987 | Socialist Party |
| 31 |  | Alois Mock (1934–) | 21 January 1987 | 4 May 1995 | Austrian People's Party |
| 32 |  | Wolfgang Schüssel (1945–) | 4 May 1995 | 4 February 2000 | Austrian People's Party |
| 33 |  | Benita Ferrero-Waldner (1948–) | 4 February 2000 | 20 October 2004 | Austrian People's Party |
| 34 |  | Ursula Plassnik (1956–) | 20 October 2004 | 2 December 2008 | Austrian People's Party |
| 35 |  | Michael Spindelegger (1959–) | 2 December 2008 | 16 December 2013 | Austrian People's Party |
| 36 |  | Sebastian Kurz (1986–) | 16 December 2013 | Incumbent | Austrian People's Party |
See also
- Foreign relations of Austria
- List of diplomatic missions of Austria
- List of foreign ministers of Austria-Hungary
| First Austrian Republic |
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