Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Austria na farko da aka yi na mulkin jamhuriya bayan faduwar masarautar a shekarar 1918 ya sha wahala sosai saboda matsalar tattalin arzikin da aka samu na biyan diyyar yaƙi da Allies masu nasara suka buƙata. Jamhuriyar Austriya ta Farko (1918<unk>1938) ta yi wasu gyare-gyare na farko a cikin 1920s, musamman a Vienna, wanda ya zama abin koyi ga jihohin jin daɗin zamantakewar Turai bayan yakin duniya na farko. Koyaya, Jamhuriyar sannu a hankali ta zama mulkin kama karya na Austrofascist tsakanin 1933 da 1934 a ƙarƙashin Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, wanda wakilan jam'iyyar Nazi suka kashe a 1934. Jamhuriyar Farko ta ƙare tare da "Anschluss" (haɗewa) zuwa Nazi Jamus a 1938. Bayan da aka ci Jamus a 1945
Ostiryia ta sake dawo da gwamnatinta na jamhuriya, bayan da ta sake samun 'yancin kai daga ikon mallakar Allied Powers. Tsarin siyasa na Austriya bayan sake kafa dimokiradiyya da yanke hukunci ana kiransa Jamhuriyar ta Biyu.