2011 in Austria
# 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

## Deaths

### 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).
