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2021 In Austria
Events in the year 2021 in Austria. Incumbents * President: Alexander Van der Bellen (since 26 January 2017) * Chancellor: ** Sebastian Kurz (until 11 October) ** Alexander Schallenberg (from 11 October), (until 6 December) ** Karl Nehammer (from 6 December) Governors * Burgenland: Hans Peter Doskozil * Carinthia: Peter Kaiser * Lower Austria: Johanna Mikl-Leitner * Salzburg: Wilfried Haslauer Jr. * Styria: Hermann Schützenhöfer * Tyrol: Günther Platter * Upper Austria: Thomas Stelzer * Vienna: Michael Ludwig * Vorarlberg: Markus Wallner Events October * 6 October: Agents of the (WKStA) raided the Federal Chancellery and the headquarters of the ÖVP as part of a corruption probe targeting Kurz and his "inner circle". * 9 October: Sebastian Kurz resigns from the chancellorship. * 11 October: President Alexander Van der Bellen officially removed Kurz from office and appointed then-Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg as chancellor of Austria. December * 6 Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Schützenhöfer
Hermann Schützenhöfer (; born 29 February 1952) was governor of the Austrian province Styria from 2015 until 2022 and chairman of the Styrian People's Party (STVP/ÖVP) from 2006 until 2022. Personal life Schützenhöfer grew up in Edlitz in Lower Austria. In 1966, Schützenhöfer's family moved back to Kirchbach in Styria, where Schützenhöfer completed compulsory school with the polytechnical year. He became an apprentice in a grocery store and wrote articles as a local journalist for the ''Kleine Zeitung'', the ''Sonntagspost'' and the Styrian youth magazine ''Horizont'' (= "Horizon" - a media organ of the Junge Volkspartei). He is married to Marianne, and has two grown-up children. Political activities Schützenhöfer then entered politics in 1970 and became director of the Styrian Young People's Party (JVP) and in 1976 chairman of JVP Styria. In 1978 he acted as director of the ÖAAB (= Workers Union of the People's Party) in Styria. In 2006 he succeeded former governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6 December
Events Pre-1600 *1060 – Béla I is crowned king of Hungary. *1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv, defended by Voivode Dmytro, falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan. *1492 – After exploring the island of Cuba for gold (which he had mistaken for Japan), Christopher Columbus lands on an island he names Hispaniola. *1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar. 1601–1900 *1648 – Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge". *1704 – Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army. *1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising. *1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia. *1803 – Five French warships attempti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11 October
Events Pre-1600 * 1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever. *1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars. * 1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of English kings with the Ordinances of 1311. 1601–1900 * 1614 – The New Netherland Company applies to the States General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in what is now the northeastern United States. *1634 – The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. *1649 – Cromwell's New Model Army sacks Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians. *1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed. *1776 – American Revolution: A fleet of American boats on Lake Champlain is defeated by the Royal Navy, but delays the British advance until 1777. *1797 – The Royal Navy decisively defeats the Bata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9 October
Events Pre-1600 * 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks. *1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia. *1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. * 1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea. *1594 – Troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture. 1601–1900 *1604 – Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way. *1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements. *1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook. *1708 – Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya. *1740 – Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000. *1760 – Seven Years' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chancellery (Austria)
In Austrian politics, the Federal Chancellery (german: Bundeskanzleramt, lit=federal chancellery, abbreviated ; historically also and ) is the ministry led by the chancellor. Since the establishment of the First Austrian Republic in 1918, the Chancellery building has served as the venue for the sessions of the Austrian cabinet. It is located on the Ballhausplatz in the centre of Vienna, vis-à-vis the Hofburg Imperial Palace. Like Downing Street, Quai d'Orsay or – formerly – Wilhelmstrasse, the address has become a synecdoche for governmental power. Responsibilities The chancellery's primary function is to align the policies and public relations of the Federal Government. It represents the executive on federal level in matters of the Constitution of Austria and in international courts. It is also in charge of women's rights and gender equality, civil service, public administration and management, exercised by Ines Stilling in the rank of a Federal Minister and member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 6
Events Pre-1600 * 105 BC – Cimbrian War: Defeat at the Battle of Arausio accelerates the Marian reforms of the Roman army of the mid-Republic. *69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: The military of the Roman Republic subdue Armenia. *AD 23 – Rebels decapitate Wang Mang two days after his capital was sacked during a peasant rebellion. * 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy. * 618 – Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi. * 1539 – Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters. * 1600 – '' Euridice'', the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period. 1601–1900 *1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America. *1762 – Seven Years' War: The British capture Manila from S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Wallner
Markus Wallner (born 20 July 1967) is an Austrian politician (ÖVP). Since 2011, he has been the governor of Vorarlberg. Life and work Markus Wallner was born on 20 July 1967, the son of Herwig and Theresia Wallner in the district capital of Bludenz. He graduated from his gymnasium in 1985. After graduation he began to study political science and history at the University of Innsbruck, where he was the chairman of the Student Union. In the Association of Industrialists Vorarlberg, he was then in charge of public relations in 1993. On 18 August 1995, he married his wife Sonja, and has three children. Political Beginnings In 1994, Wallner was first went into politics in contact when he formally became a member of the Austrian People's Party and was employed in the provincial office of the Vorarlberg People's Party in Bregenz. On 19 April 1995 he also had his first political office as a member of the municipal council of his home town of Frastanz. In April 1997, he became the per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Governors Of Vorarlberg ...
This is a list of governors of Vorarlberg, a state in Austria. List of officeholders {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Governors Of Vorarlberg *List Vorarlberg Vorarlberg ( , ; gsw, label=Vorarlbergisch, Vorarlbearg, , or ) is the westernmost States of Austria, state () of Austria. It has the second-smallest geographical area after Vienna and, although it also has the second-smallest population, it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ludwig
Michael Ludwig (born 3 April 1961) is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ). Since May 2018, he has been Mayor and Governor of Vienna, the capital and largest city of Austria. Since January 2018, he has also served as chairman of SPÖ Vienna. Prior, he was City Councillor for Housing, Construction, and Urban Renewal from January 2007 until his election as mayor. He was also Second Deputy Mayor and Governor of Vienna from March 2009 to October 2010. Personal life Ludwig grew up in Vienna's 21st district, Floridsdorf, living in a Gemeindebau (municipal housing estate). He grew up under the governments of SPÖ Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who he cites as his political idol. After finishing primary school, Michael Ludwig attended the lower level of a general high school in Vienna from 1971. He then attended the commercial academy all the way 1975 to 1980 and graduated from it with the ''Matura''. After serving military service from 1981 to 1982, he studied politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Vienna
This is a list of mayors and governors of Vienna since 1282. Vienna is the capital city of Austria. Since 1920, it has also been an Austrian state, with its mayor also doubling as the '' Landeshauptmann'' (governor or minister-president) of the state of Vienna. Duchy and Archduchy of Austria * Konrad Poll 1282 * Heinrich Hansgraf 1285 * Konrad von Eslarn 1287 * Konrad Poll 1288–1305 * Heinrich Chrannest 1305–1307 * Dietrich von Kahlenberg 1307 * Heinrich von d. Neisse 1308 * Niklas von Eslarn 1309 * Niklas von Eslarn 1309–1313 * Heinrich von d. Neisse 1310 * Niklas Poll 1313–1315 * Hermann von St. Pölten 1316 * Niklas von Eslarn 1316–1317 * Hermann von St. Pölten 1318 * Otto Wülfleinstorfer 1319–1323 * Stephan Chriegler 1323 * Niklas Poll 1324–1327 * Stephan Chriegler 1327–1328 * Heinrich Lang 1329–1330 * Dietrich Urbetsch 1332–1333 * Hermann Snaezl 1333–1334 * Dietrich Urbetsch 1335–1337 * Konrad von Eslarn 1337–1338 * Berthold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Stelzer (politician)
Thomas Stelzer (born February 21, 1967 in Linz) is an Austrian politician who is serving as the current Governor of Upper Austria since 2017. Stelzer studied law at the Johannes Kepler University Linz from 1985 to 1990. Before becoming Governor, Stelzer was the Deputy Governor of Upper Austria from 2015 to 2017. He was a member of the Upper Austrian Parliament from 1997 to 2015. He is Knight of Honor of the Order of St. George The Order of Saint George (russian: Орден Святого Георгия, Orden Svyatogo Georgiya) is the highest military decoration of the Russian Federation. Originally established on 26 November 1769 Julian (7 December 1769 Gregorian) a .... References Living people 1967 births Johannes Kepler University Linz alumni Governors of Upper Austria Austrian People's Party politicians Politicians from Linz {{Austria-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
