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
Births
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).
References
Years of the 21st century in Austria
Austria
Austria
2010s in Austria