List of governors of Carinthia

The list of Governors of Carinthia lists all state of Carinthia, as well as for the period of non - independence as a country was then assigned to the respective governors of the country, the Carinthia. The Office of the Governor is busy in Carinthia with quite similar features as today since the 13th century.

• 8.1 Notes and references

Governors until 1848

Here are the documented traditional tenure is cited. At times, such as in the second half of the 15th century, rather than a provincial governor merely a locum tenens worked, the country was under in these cases the immediate sovereignty of the king or emperor in his capacity as Duke of Carinthia.

• Ulrich Graf von Heunburg 1270
• Ulrich von Dürrholz 1271-1273
• Heinrich Graf von Pfannberg 1275-1276
• Meinhard Count of Gorizia - Tyrol 1276-1279
• Cholo balances Mayrhofen 1284
• Konrad von Aufenstein 1294-1335
• Ulrich Graf von Pfannberg 1335-1354
• Johann Graf von Pfannberg 1357-1360
• Friedrich von Aufenstein 1360-1362
• John, Bishop of Gurk 1363
• Conrad I Kraiger of Kraigk 1365-1367
• Meinhard Count of Gorizia - Tirol 1370
• Ulrich von Liechtenstein 1381-1384
• Conrad II Kraiger of Kraigk 1385-1398
• Otto von Ehrenfels 1399-1401
• Rudolf Graf von Sulz 1404-1405
• Rudolf von Liechtenstein in 1407
• Rudolf Graf von Sulz 1408-1409
• Conrad III. Kraiger of Kraigk 1412-1446
• Conrad IV of Kraiger Kraigk 1475-1488
• Jacob Székely 1493
• Ulrich von Weißpriach 1500-1503
• Veit Welzer 1520-1537
• Christoph Freiherr von Khevenhüller 1540-1557
• Christoph Freiherr von Thannhausen 1557-1565
• Georg Freiherr von Khevenhüller 1565-1587
• Johann Graf von Ortenbourg 1587-1601
• Georg Graf von Nogarol 1602-1609
• David Christoph Graf von Urschenbeck 1610-1636
• Georg Sigmund Freiherr von tomatoes 1636-1648
• Georg Freiherr von Andre and Kronegg 1649-1665
• Johann Karl Prince of Porcia 1666-1667
• Helfried Sigmund Graf von Dietrich Stein 1668-1686
• Franz Andrae Count Orsini -Rosenberg 1686-1698
• Sigmund Friedrich Graf von Khevenhüller 1698-1711
• Johann Peter Graf von Goëss 1712-1716
• Hannibal Alphons Prince of Porcia 1716-1724
• Sigmund Rudolf Graf von Wagensberg 1726-1728
• Wolf Sigmund Count Orsini -Rosenberg 1728-1734
• Johann Anton Graf von Goëss 1734-1747
• Johann Gottfried Graf von Heister 1763-1773
• Franz Anton Graf von Khevenhüller -Metsch 1773-1774
• Vincent, Count Orsini -Rosenberg 1774-1782
• Philipp Graf von Wels Mountain 1791
• Joseph Graf von O'Donnell 1792-1794
• Franz Joseph Graf von Wurmbrand 1794-1801
• Johann Graf and Mr. Brandis to 1801-1803
• Peter Graf of Goëss 1804-1806
• Ferdinand Freiherr von Ulm 1807-1818
• Camillo Joseph Freiherr von Schmidburg 1819-1822
• Joseph Freiherr von Krufft 1822-1825
• Maria Hieronymus Count of space 1826-1833
• Joseph Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein 1834-1848

Governors and governors in Graz

The governors or governor in Graz were 1763-1791, 1804-1825 and 1860/1861 also responsible for Carinthia, that was not an independent Crown land at that time.

• Johann Maximilian Graf von Wildenstein 1763-1773
• Alois Graf von Podstatzky Lichtenstein 1773-1782
• Franz Anton Graf von Khevenhüller 1782-1791
• Franz Anton Graf von Stürgkh 1791
• Philipp Graf von Wels mountain Reitenau 1792-1806
• Franz Graf von Saurau 1806-1808
• Peter Graf of Goëss 1808-1810
• Ferdinand Graf von Bissingen - Nippenburg 1810-1815
• Christian Graf von Aicholt 1815-1822
• Franz Graf von Hartig 1824 (?) -1830
• Michael Earl of Strassoldo 1853-1865

Governors in Ljubljana

The governors were in Ljubljana from 1809 to 1849 for the district of Villach, 1825-1849 also responsible for the district of Klagenfurt.

• Count Louis d' Hilliers Baraguey July-October 1809
• Marshal Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, Duke of Ragusa 1809-1811
• General Count Bertrand 1811-1813
• Marshal Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes March 1813
• Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto July-August 1813
• Freiherr von Lattermann 1813
• Julius, Count of Strassoldo 1816-1817
• Karl Graf von Inzaghy 1818-1819
• Joseph Graf von Sweerts Spork 1819-1822
• Camillo Joseph Freiherr von Schmidburg 1822-1840
• Joseph Freiherr von Weingarten 1841-1848
• Leopold Graf von Welsersheimb 1848-1849

Governors and state president from 1849 to 1918

Governor

• Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von Schloissnigg 1849-1860

Governors

( The Governor was by the Prince of certain chairman of the parliament and its Executive Committee, the National Committee. )

• Adalbert Freiherr von Buol -Bernburg 1860-1861
• Georg Graf von Thurn - Valsassina 1861
• Johann Anton Graf von Goëss 1861-1876
• Johann Stieger 1876-1884
• Joseph Erwein 1884-1897
• Zeno Count of Goëss 1897-1909
• Leopold Freiherr von Aichelburg - Labia 1909-1918

Country's president

(National President was in some crown lands of the title of the imperial governor, the representative of the Prince and his government in Vienna. )

• Franz Freiherr von Schluga 1861-1867
• Karl Sigmund Graf von Hohenwart 1867-1868
• Guido Count of Kübeck 1868-1870
• Kaspar Lodron - Laterano 1870
• Alois Freiherr von Ceschi a Santa Croce 1870-1872
• Kaspar Lodron - Laterano 1873-1880
• Franz Freiherr von Schmidt- Zabierow 1880-1897
• Otto Ritter Fraydt of Fraydenegg 1897-1903
• Robert Freiherr von Hein 1903-1912
• Alfred Freiherr von Fries- Skene 1912-1915
• Karl Graf von Lodrona Lateran 1915-1918

Governors 1918-1938

• Arthur Lemisch, Landesverweser ( Independent) 1918-1921
• Florian Groeger ( SDAPÖ ) 1921-1923
• Vincent Schumy ( Landbund ) 1923-1927
• Arthur Lemisch ( Independent) 1927-1931
• Ferdinand core Maier ( Landbund ) 1931-1934
• Ludwig Hülgerth (VF ) from 1934 to 1936; not democratically elected
• Arnold viewfinder ( VF) from 1936 to 1938; not democratically elected

Governors and imperial governor from 1938 to 1945

• Vladimir von Pawlowski, Governor from March to May 1938
• Hubert Klausner, Governor 1938-1939
• Vladimir von Pawlowski, Executive Governor 1939-1940
• Friedrich Rainer, Reichsstatthalter 1941-1945

Provincial Governors since 1945

• Hans Piesch ( SPÖ) 1945-1947
• Ferdinand Wedenig ( SPÖ) 1947-1965
• Hans Sima ( SPÖ) 1965-1974
• Leopold Wagner ( SPÖ) 1974-1988
• Peter Ambrose ( SPÖ) 1988-1989
• Jörg Haider (FPÖ ) 1989-1991
• Christof Zernatto (ÖVP ) 1991-1999
• Jörg Haider (FPÖ / AAF ) 1999-2008
• Gerhard Dörfler ( AAF / FPK ) 2008-2013
• Peter Kaiser ( SPÖ) since 2013

Documents

The article is based on the following documents:

• Evelyne Webernig: The Governor of Carinthia. A historical and political overview. Publisher of the Carinthian Provincial Archives, Klagenfurt, 1987, ISBN 3-900531-18-8