2011 in Austria

Events from the year 2011 in Austria

Incumbents

 * President: Heinz Fischer
 * Chancellor: Werner Faymann

Governors

 * Burgenland: Hans Niessl
 * Carinthia: Gerhard Dörfler
 * Lower Austria: Erwin Pröll
 * Salzburg: Gabi Burgstaller
 * Styria: Franz Voves
 * Tyrol: Günther Platter
 * Upper Austria: Josef Pühringer
 * Vienna: Michael Häupl
 * Vorarlberg:
 * Herbert Sausgruber (till December 7, 2011)
 * Markus Wallner (since December 7, 2011)

Events

 * July 16: The funeral of Otto von Habsburg takes place in Vienna attended by over 100,000 people

January

 * January 3: Alfred Proksch, 102, Austrian athlete and graphic designer.
 * January 6: Rudi Bass, 96, Austrian-born American graphic artist, illustrator and writer.
 * January 15: Hilde Zach, 68, Austrian politician, Mayor of Innsbruck (2002–2010).
 * January 30: Michael Herzog, 58, Austrian ice hockey player.

February

 * February 1: Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall.
 * February 7: Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.
 * February 12: Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.

March

 * March 15: Yakov Kreizberg, 51, Russian-born Austrian-American conductor.
 * March 19: Gustav Lantschner, 100, Austrian Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) alpine skier and actor.
 * March 29: Edith Klestil, 78, Austrian first lady (1992–1998), first wife of President Thomas Klestil, cancer.
 * March 31: Claudia Heill, 29, Austrian judoka, silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, suspected suicide.

April

 * April 17: Eric Gross, 84, Austrian-born Australian composer.
 * April 20: Erwin Strahl, 82, Austrian actor.

May

 * May 5: Friedrich Rückert, 90, Austrian Olympic hockey player.
 * May 30: Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.

June

 * June 6: Werner Fischer, 70, Austrian Olympic sailor.
 * June 14: Milivoj Ašner, 98, Croatian-born Austrian Nazi war criminal.
 * June 25: Dorothea Austin, 89, Austrian-born American pianist and composer.

July

 * July 4: Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP (1979–1999).
 * July 6:
 * Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident.
 * Gabriele Zeilinger, 93, Austrian Olympic fencer.
 * July 21: Franz Alt, 100, Austrian-born American mathematician.

August

 * August 11: Johann Traxler, 52, Austrian Olympic cyclist.
 * August 14: Fritz Bach, 77, Austrian-born American transplant physician and immunologist.

September

 * September 6: Archduke Felix of Austria, 95, Austrian royal, last surviving child of Charles I of Austria.
 * September 25: Sissy Löwinger, 70, Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger.

October

 * October 10: Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor.
 * October 18: Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Austria (since 1991).
 * October 28: Arnold Ruiner, 74, Austrian Olympic cyclist.

November

 * November 11: Hellmut May, 90, Austrian Olympic figure skater.
 * November 12: Evelyn Lauder, 75, Austrian-born American philanthropist (The Breast Cancer Research Foundation), creator of pink ribbon symbol, complications from ovarian cancer.
 * November 19: Peter Steinwender, 83, Austrian Olympian
 * November 22:
 * Sena Jurinac, 90, Bosnian-born Austrian opera singer.
 * Georg Kreisler, 89, Austrian-born American cabarettist, satirist, composer and author.
 * November 24: Ludwig Hirsch, 65, Austrian singer and actor, suicide by self-defenestration.

December

 * December 29: Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian coffee house owner (Café Hawelka).