This is a list of governors of the Austrian state of Lower Austria:
No. | Portrait | Name | Term | Party | Period | ||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | |||||
1 | Leopold Steiner | 5 November 1918 | 20 May 1919 | Christian Social |
First Republic (1918–1934) | ||
2 | Albert Sever | 20 May 1919 | 10 November 1920 | Social Democrat | |||
3 | Johann Mayer | 10 November 1920 | 9 June 1922 | Christian Social | |||
4 | Karl Buresch | 9 June 1922 | 31 July 1931 | Christian Social | |||
5 | Josef Reither | 31 July 1931 | 19 May 1932 | Christian Social | |||
(4) | Karl Buresch | 19 May 1932 | 18 May 1933 | Christian Social | |||
(5) | Josef Reither | 18 May 1933 | 30 July 1934 | Christian Social Fatherland's Front | |||
6 | Eduard Baar-Baarenfels | 30 July 1934 | 17 October 1935 | Fatherland's Front |
Austrofascism (1934–1938) | ||
(5) | Josef Reither | 17 October 1935 | 12 March 1938 | Fatherland's Front | |||
(Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of the Reichsgau of Lower Danube) |
Nazi Germany (1938–1945) | ||||||
7 | Roman Jäger | 12 March 1938 | 24 May 1938 | NSDAP | |||
8 | Hugo Jury | 24 May 1938 | 8 May 1945 | NSDAP | |||
9 | Leopold Figl | 25 May 1945 | 15 October 1945 | ÖVP |
Second Republic (1945–present) | ||
(5) | Josef Reither | 15 October 1945 | 4 May 1949 | ÖVP | |||
10 | Johann Steinböck | 4 May 1949 | 14 January 1962 | ÖVP | |||
(9) | Leopold Figl | 14 January 1962 | 9 May 1965 | ÖVP | |||
11 | Eduard Hartmann | 16 June 1965 | 14 October 1966 | ÖVP | |||
12 | Andreas Maurer | 24 November 1966 | 22 January 1981 | ÖVP | |||
13 | Siegfried Ludwig | 22 January 1981 | 20 October 1992 | ÖVP | |||
14 | Erwin Pröll | 20 October 1992 | 19 April 2017 | ÖVP | |||
15 | Johanna Mikl-Leitner | 19 April 2017 | Incumbent | ÖVP |