List of administrators of Allied-occupied Austria
This article lists the administrators of Allied-occupied Austria, which represented the Allies of World War II in Allied-occupied Austria (German: Alliierten-besetztes Österreich) from the end of World War II in Europe in 1945[1][2][3] until the re-establishment of Austrian independence in 1955, in accordance with the Austrian State Treaty.[4]
Officeholders
Source:[5]
American zone
- High Commissioners
| No. | Portrait | High Commissioner[6] | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Mark W. Clark (1896–1984) | 5 July 1945 | 16 May 1947 | 1 year, 315 days |  United States Army | |
| 2 | Lieutenant general Geoffrey Keyes (1888–1967) | 17 May 1947 | 19 September 1950 | 3 years, 125 days | United States Army | |
| 3 | Walter J. Donnelly (1896–1970) | 20 September 1950 | 17 July 1952 | 1 year, 301 days | none | |
| 4 | Llewellyn Thompson (1904–1972) | 17 July 1952 | 27 July 1955 | 3 years, 10 days | none |
British zone
- High Commissioners
| No. | Portrait | High Commissioner | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Sir Richard McCreery (1898–1967) | July 1945 | March 1946 | 8 months |  British Army | |
| 2 | General Sir James Steele (1894–1975) | March 1946 | October 1947 | 1 year, 7 months | British Army | |
| 3 | Lieutenant general Sir Alexander Galloway (1895–1977) | October 1947 | 1 January 1950 | 2 years, 3 months | British Army | |
| 4 | Major general Sir John Winterton (1898–1987) | 1 January 1950 | 1 August 1950 | 212 days | British Army | |
| 5 | Sir Harold Caccia (1905–1990) | 1 August 1950 | 5 February 1954 | 3 years, 188 days | none | |
| 6 | Sir Geoffrey Wallinger (1903–1979) | 5 February 1954 | 27 July 1955 | 1 year, 172 days | none |
French zone
- High Commissioners
| No. | Portrait | High Commissioner | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Army general Antoine Béthouart (1889–1982) | 8 July 1945 | September 1950 | 5 years, 1 month |  French Army | |
| 2 | Jean Payart (1892–1969) | September 1950 | October 1954 | 4 years, 1 month | none | |
| 3 | Jean Chauvel (1897–1979) | October 1954 | February 1955 | 4 months | none | |
| 4 | Roger Lalouette (1904–1980) | February 1955 | June 1955 | 4 months | none | |
| 5 | François Seydoux de Clausonne (1905–1981) | 3 June 1955 | 27 July 1955 | 54 days | none |
Soviet zone
- Military commander
| No. | Portrait | Commander | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | Marshal of the Soviet Union Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894–1949) Commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front (in Vienna) | 13 April 1945 | July 1945 | 2 months |  Soviet Army |
- High Commissioners
| No. | Portrait | High Commissioner | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev (1897–1973) | July 1945 | 25 April 1946 | 9 months | Soviet Army | |
| 2 | Army general Vladimir Kurasov (1897–1973) | 10 May 1946 | 2 April 1949 | 2 years, 327 days | Soviet Army | |
| 3 | Lieutenant general Vladimir Sviridov (1897–1963) | 4 May 1949 | 7 June 1953 | 4 years, 34 days | Soviet Army | |
| 4 | Lieutenant general (Ret'd) Ivan Ilyichev (1905–1983) | 7 June 1953 | 27 July 1955 | 2 years, 50 days | Soviet Army (Ret'd) |
See also
References
- ^ "The German Surrender Documents – WWII". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2005.
- ^ Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany Archived 18 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, Retrieved 14 September 2008
- ^ The Churchill Centre: The End of the War in Europe Archived 19 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Austrian State Treaty, 1955". 2001-2009.state.gov. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "Allied Military Government of Austria". worldstatesmen.org. B. Cahoon. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ^ Olsen, Matthew (2003). "Records of the German External Assets Branch of the U.S. Allied Commission for Austria (USACA) Section, 1945–1950" (PDF). National Archives. M1928. Retrieved May 10, 2018.