List of ministers-president of Austria

Minister-President
of the Austrian Empire
Last in office
Heinrich Lammasch

27 October 1918 – 11 November 1918
StatusHead of Government
SeatVienna
PrecursorState Chancellor of the Austrian Empire
Formation20 March 1848
First holderFranz Anton
Final holderHeinrich Lammasch
Abolished11 November 1918
SuccessionChancellor of Austria

The minister-president of Austria was the head of government of the Austrian Empire from 1848, when the office was created in the course of the March Revolution. Previously, executive power rested with an Austrian State Council, headed by the emperor himself, from 1821 under the chairmanship of State Chancellor Prince Klemens von Metternich. The office of minister-president was not refilled from 1852, when Emperor Franz Joseph resumed control of the government affairs, and was replaced by a coordinating chairman of the Austrian Minister's Conference.

According to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, executive powers were divided between the emperor-king, the minister of the Imperial and Royal House and of Foreign Affairs as chairman of the k. u. k. Ministers' Council for Common Affairs, and the ministers-president of the Cisleithanian (Austrian) and Hungarian halves of the Empire. After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in November 1918, the head of government in the Austrian Republic since 1920 has been the federal chancellor.


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