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]

Allied occupation zones in Austria, 1945–1955.

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	243 days	British Army
2		General Sir James Steele (1894–1975)	March 1946	October 1947	1 year, 214 days	British Army
3		Lieutenant general Sir Alexander Galloway (1895–1977)	October 1947	1 January 1950	2 years, 92 days	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 1955	5 years, 55 days	French Army
2		Jean Payart (1892–1969)	September 1950	October 1954	4 years, 30 days	none
3		Jean Chauvel (1897–1979)	October 1954	February 1955	123 days	none
4		Roger Lalouette (1904–1980)	February 1955	June 1955	120 days	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	79 days	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	298 days	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 Petrovich 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

• History of Austria#Allied occupation
• History of Vienna#Allied occupation
  • List of Commandants of Vienna Sectors

Notes

References

1. "The German Surrender Documents – WWII". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2005.
2. Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany Archived 18 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, Retrieved 14 September 2008
3. The Churchill Centre: The End of the War in Europe Archived 19 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Austrian State Treaty, 1955". 2001-2009.state.gov. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
5. "Allied Military Government of Austria". worldstatesmen.org. B. Cahoon. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
6. 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.