1975 in Austria

← 1974 1973 1972 1975 in Austria → 1976 1977 1978
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See also:	Other events of 1975 List of years in Austria

Events from the year 1975 in Austria .

Incumbents

• President – Rudolf Kirchschläger ^[1]
• Chancellor – Bruno Kreisky ^[2]

Governors

• Burgenland: Theodor Kery
• Carinthia: Leopold Wagner
• Lower Austria: Andreas Maurer
• Salzburg: Hans Lechner
• Styria: Friedrich Niederl
• Tyrol: Eduard Wallnöfer
• Upper Austria: Erwin Wenzl
• Vienna: Leopold Gratz
• Vorarlberg: Herbert Keßler

Events

• 14-16 March – The FIS Ski Flying World Championships 1975 take place in Bad Mitterndorf. ^[3]
• 5 October – The 1975 Austrian legislative election is won by the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). ^[4]
• 21 December – OPEC siege ^[5]

Births

• 3 March – Patric Chiha, film director and screenwriter ^[6]

Deaths

• 7 March – Erika Abels d'Albert, painter and designer (b. 1896) ^[7]
• 24 April – Sophie Schulz, politician (b. 1905) ^[8]
• 27 June – Robert Stolz, composer, songwriter and conductor (b. 1880) ^[9]
• 20 August – Karl Schwanzer, architect (b. 1918) ^[10]

References

1. "President Franz Jonas of Austria Dies". The New York Times . Retrieved 20 November 2022.
2. "Bruno Kreisky | chancellor of Austria | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
3. "FIS Ski flying World Championships 1975 results". FIS. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
4. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p196 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
5. Blumenau, Bernhard (2014). The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 55–59. ISBN   978-1-137-39196-4.
6. "Patric Chiha". AlloCiné (in French). Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
7. Ilse Korotin, ed. (2016). biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen Vol 1: A–H (in German). Böhlau. ISBN   978-3-205-79590-2.
8. "Sophie Schulz". Landtag of Lower Austria (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2024-04-30.
9. "Robert Stolz, 94, Composer, is Dead". New York Times. June 28, 1975. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
10. 1975 in Austria in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU)