List of governors of Tyrol

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This is a list of governors of the Austrian state of Tyrol :

PortraitNameTermPartyPeriod
Took officeLeft officeDuration
1Josef Schraffl30 October 19186 June 1921 Christian Social Austria Bundesadler 1919-1934.svg

First Republic

(1918–1934)

2Franz Stumpf7 June 192128 February 1935 Christian Social
Fatherland's Front
3Josef Schumacher21 March 193512 March 1938 Fatherland's Front Osterreich-Wappen (1934-1938).svg

Austrofascism

(1934–1938)

(Governor and Gauleiter) Reichsadler Deutsches Reich (1935-1945).svg

Nazi Germany

(1938–1945)

4Edmund Christoph13 March 193824 May 1938 NSDAP
5 Franz Hofer 24 May 19383 May 1945 NSDAP
6 Karl Gruber 4 May 194520 October 1945 ÖVP Austria Bundesadler.svg

Second Republic

(1945–present)

7Alfons Weißgatterer20 October 194531 January 1951 ÖVP
8Alois Grauß27 February 195112 November 1957 ÖVP
9Hans Tschiggfrey12 November 195730 June 1963 ÖVP
10 Eduard Wallnöfer 30 June 19632 March 1987 ÖVP
11 Alois Partl 5 March 198724 September 1993 ÖVP
12 Wendelin Weingartner 24 September 199326 October 2002 ÖVP
13 Herwig van Staa 26 October 20021 July 2008 ÖVP
14 Günther Platter 1 July 200825 October 2022 ÖVP
15 Anton Mattle 25 October 2022incumbent ÖVP

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