Herwig van Staa

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Herwig van Staa
Herwig van Staa (2014)
Governor of Tyrol
In office 26 October 2002 – 1 July 2008
Preceded by	Wendelin Weingartner
Succeeded by	Günther Platter
Personal details
Born	(1942-06-10) 10 June 1942 (age 82) Linz, Reichsgau Oberdonau, Nazi Germany (now Upper Austria, Austria)
Political party	ÖVP

Herwig van Staa (born 10 June 1942) was the governor of Tyrol from 2002 to 2008.

Van Staa was born in Linz, Upper Austria. His father, who came from the Rhine area, worked as a technician in the steelworks in Linz and died in a sick bay in 1943 after military action on the Eastern Front. His mother came from an Austrian family and worked as a midwife. Van Staa attended primary school in Bad Leonfelden (Mühlviertel) and completed his secondary school studies in Wels, where he passed his 'A' levels in 1960.