List of Ministers-President of Austria

Coat of arms of the Austrian Empire (1867)

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 offices 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 and 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.

Austrian Empire (1848–67)

Ministers-President (1848–52)

Count Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (20 March – 19 April 1848)
Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont (19 April – 19 May 1848) (acting)
Baron Franz von Pillersdorf (19 May – 8 July 1848) (acting)
Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier (8 July – 18 July 1848) (caretaker government)
Baron Johann von Wessenberg-Ampringen (18 July – 21 November 1848)
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg (21 November 1848 – 5 April 1852)

Chairmen of the Ministers' Conference (1852–67)

Count Karl Ferdinand von Buol (11 April 1852 – 21 August 1859) (informal)
Count Johann Bernhard von Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (21 August 1859 – 4 February 1861)
Archduke Rainer Ferdinand (4 February 1861 – 26 June 1865)
Count Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly (26 June – 27 July 1865)
Count Richard Belcredi (27 July 1865 – 7 February 1867)
Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (7 February – 30 December 1867)

Austria–Hungary (1867–1918)

Medium coat of arms of Austria-Hungary (1916),
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Foreign Ministers as Chairmen of the Ministers' Council for Common Affairs

Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust (30 December 1867 – 8 November 1871)
Count Gyula Andrássy (14 November 1871 – 2 October 1879)
Baron Heinrich Karl von Haymerle (8 October 1879 – 10 October 1881)
Count Gustav Kálnoky (20 November 1881 – 2 May 1895)
Count Agenor Maria Gołuchowski (16 May 1895 – 24 October 1906)
Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (24 October 1906 – 17 February 1912)
Count Leopold Berchtold (17 February 1912 – 13 January 1915)
Count Stephan Burián von Rajecz (13 January 1915 – 22 December 1916)
Count Ottokar von Czernin (22 December 1916 – 14 April 1918)
Count Stephan Burián von Rajecz, again (16 April 1918 – 24 October 1918)
Count Gyula Andrássy (the younger): (24 October 1918 – 1 November 1918)
Baron Ludwig von Flotow (2 November 1918 – 11 November 1918)

Medium coat of arms of the Austrian Lands (1915),
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Ministers-President of Cisleithania

Prince Karl of Auersperg (30 December 1867 – 24 September 1868)
Count Eduard Taaffe (24 September 1868 – 15 January 1870)
Baron Ignaz von Plener (15 January – 1 February 1870)
Leopold Hasner von Artha (1 February – 12 April 1870)
Count Alfred Józef Potocki (12 April 1870 – 6 February 1871)
Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart (6 February – 30 October 1871)
Baron Ludwig von Holzgethan (30 October – 25 November 1871)
Prince Adolf von Auersperg (28 November 1871 – 15 February 1879)
Knight Karl von Stremayr (15 February – 12 August 1879)
Count Eduard Taaffe, again (12 August 1879 – 11 November 1893)
Prince Alfred of Windisch-Grätz (11 November 1893 – 19 June 1895)
Count Erich Kielmansegg (19 June – 30 September 1895) (caretaker government)
Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (30 September 1895 – 30 November 1897)
Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn (30 November 1897 – 5 March 1898)
Prince Franz of Thun and Hohenstein (5 March 1898 – 2 October 1899)
Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen (2 October – 21 December 1899)
Knight Heinrich von Wittek (21 December 1899 – 18 January 1900) (caretaker government)
Ernest von Koerber (19 January 1900 – 31 December 1904)
Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn, again (31 December 1904 – 2 May 1906)
Prince Konrad of Hohenlohe (2 May – 2 June 1906)
Baron Max Wladimir von Beck (2 June 1906 – 15 November 1908)
Count Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling (15 November 1908 – 28 June 1911)
Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn, third term (28 June – 3 November 1911)
Count Karl von Stürgkh (3 November 1911 – 21 October 1916)
Ernest von Koerber, again (29 October – 20 December 1916)
Count Heinrich Clam-Martinic (20 December 1916 – 23 June 1917)
Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg (23 June 1917 – 27 July 1918)
Baron Max Hussarek von Heinlein (27 July – 27 October 1918)
Heinrich Lammasch (27 October – 11 November 1918)

Medium coat of arms of the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen (1915), H. G. Ströhl

Ministers-President of Transleithania

Gyula Andrássy (17 February 1867 – 14 November 1871)
Menyhért Lónyay (14 November 1871 – 4 December 1872)
József Szlávy (4 December 1872 -1 March 1874)
István Bittó (1 March 1874 – 2 March 1875)
Béla Wenckheim (2 March 1875 – 20 October 1875)
Kálmán Tisza (20 October 1875 – 13 March 1890)
Gyula Szapáry (13 March 1890 – 17 November 1892)
Sándor Wekerle (17 November 1892 – 14 January 1895)
Dezső Bánffy (14 January 1895 – 26 February 1899)
Kálmán Széll (26 February 1899 – 27 June 1903)
Károly Khuen-Héderváry (27 June 1903 – 3 November 1903)
István Tisza (3 November 1903 – 18 June 1905)
Géza Fejérváry (18 June 1905 – 8 April 1906)
Sándor Wekerle, again (8 April 1906 – 17 January 1910)
Károly Khuen-Héderváry, again (17 January 1910 – 22 April 1912)
László Lukács (22 April 1912 – 10 June 1913)
István Tisza, again (10 June 1913 – 15 June 1917)
Móric Esterházy (15 June 1917 – 20 August 1917)
Sándor Wekerle, again (20 August 1917 – 31 October 1918)
János Hadik (31 October 1918 – 1 November 1918)