100 Notable Alumni of the University of Graz [Sorted List]

Peter Handke

Born in: Austria
Years: 1942-.. (age 84)
Occupations: playwrightfilm directorwritertranslatorprose writer
Biography: Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.

Ivo Andrić

Born in: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Years: 1892-1975 (aged 83)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: In 1924 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy
Occupations: poetwriternovelistessayistshort story writer
Biography: Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1836-1895 (aged 59)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: In 1854 graduated with doctorate
Occupations: historianjournalistuniversity teacherwriter
Biography: Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Masoch did not approve of this use of his name.

Karel Schwarzenberg

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1937-2023 (aged 86)
Occupations: entrepreneurdiplomatforeign ministerpolitician
Biography: Karel Schwarzenberg was a Czech politician, diplomat and statesman who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from 2007 to 2009 and then again between 2010 and 2013. Schwarzenberg was leader and co-founder of the TOP 09 party and its candidate for president of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 2010 to 2021 and in the Senate from 2004 until 2010.

Luis Trenker

Born in: Italy
Years: 1892-1990 (aged 98)
Occupations: film directorwriterfilm editorarchitectfilm producer
Biography: Luis Trenker was an Italian, South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, alpinist, and bobsledder.

Clemens Arvay

Born in: Austria
Years: 1980-2023 (aged 43)
Occupations: YouTuberwriternon-fiction writerbiologistvlogger
Biography: Clemens Georg Arvay was an Austrian author of nonfiction books with an emphasis on health ecology. In particular, his controversial conclusions about the relationship between the benefit and risk of the COVID-19 vaccine attracted media attention.

Karl Böhm

Born in: Austria
Years: 1894-1981 (aged 87)
Occupations: music directorconductorcomposer
Biography: Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Wagner, and Richard Strauss.

Werner Kogler

Born in: Austria
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Werner Kogler is an Austrian politician of the Green Party who served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 2020 to 2024 and as minister for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in the governments of chancellors Sebastian Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg, and Karl Nehammer from 2020 to 2025.

Otto Gross

Born in: Austria
Years: 1877-1920 (aged 43)
Occupations: writerpsychiatristphysicianpsychoanalyst
Biography: Otto Hans Adolf Gross was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Sigmund Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community.

Walther Nernst

Born in: Poland
Years: 1864-1941 (aged 77)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: Studied in 1886
Occupations: university teacherchemistphysicist
Biography: Walther Hermann Nernst ForMemRS was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for developing the Nernst equation in 1887.

Peter Rosegger

Born in: Austria
Years: 1843-1918 (aged 75)
Occupations: poetwriter
Biography: Peter Rosegger was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria. He was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl. Rosegger (or Rossegger) went on to become a most prolific poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary.

Valentin Inzko

Born in: Austria
Years: 1949-.. (age 77)
Occupations: translatordiplomatlinguistpolitician
Biography: Valentin Inzko is an Austrian diplomat who served as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009 to 2021. He also served as the European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009 to 2011.

Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek

Born in: Austria
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: 1988-1993 graduated with Magister Juris in legal science; 1994-1998 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science
Occupations: politician
Biography: Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek is an Austrian politician of the Austrian Green Party, and its federal spokeswoman from 2008 until 2017. She was the plaintiff in the landmark case Eva Glawishnig-Piesczek v. Facebook Ireland, in which she sued Facebook for defamation to compel the social media company to globally censor the "defamatory and all equivalent" posts.

Archbishop Ieronimos II of Athens

Born in: Greece
Years: 1938-.. (age 88)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: Graduated with postgraduate education in theology
Occupations: historianEastern Orthodox bishop
Biography: Ieronymos II is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.

Raphael M. Bonelli

Born in: Austria
Years: 1968-.. (age 58)
Occupations: YouTuberpsychotherapistuniversity teacherpsychiatristpsychologist
Biography: Raphael M. Bonelli is an Austrian neuroscientist and psychiatrist.

Peter Struve

Born in: Russia
Years: 1870-1944 (aged 74)
Occupations: writereconomistjournalistpolitician
Biography: Peter Berngardovich Struve (Russian: Пётр Бернга́рдович Стру́ве, IPA: [pʲɵtr bʲɪrnˈɡardəvʲɪtɕˈstruvʲɪ]; 7 February [O.S. 26 January] 1870 – 22 February 1944) was a Russian political economist, philosopher, historian and editor. He started his career as a Marxist, later became a liberal and after the Bolshevik Revolution, joined the White movement. From 1920, he lived in exile in Paris, where he was a prominent critic of Russian communism.

Monika Martin

Born in: Austria
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: singer
Biography: Monika Martin is an Austrian singer of pop and folk music. Between 1999 and 2021, several of her singles have charted on the Ö3 Austria Top 40, the Swiss Hitparade, and the Deutsche Albumcharts. She was the recipient of the Goldene Stimmgabel prize in September 2006.

Karl von Terzaghi

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1883-1963 (aged 80)
Occupations: university teachergeologistinventor
Biography: Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering".

Otto Loewi

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936
Born in: Germany
Years: 1873-1961 (aged 88)
Occupations: pharmacologistuniversity teacherphysiologistpharmacistneuroscientist
Biography: Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936, which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, who was a lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's laboratory at University College, London.

Irmgard Griss

Born in: Austria
Years: 1946-.. (age 80)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: 1965-1970 graduated with Doctor of Laws in legal science and political science and government
Occupations: juristjudgepolitician
Biography: Irmgard Griss, also known as Irmgard Griss-Reiterer, is an Austrian politician, lawyer and judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of Justice from 2007 to 2011. She registered as an independent candidate at the 2016 presidential election and came in third position.

Lasgush Poradeci

Born in: Albania
Years: 1899-1987 (aged 88)
Occupations: translator of Adam Mickiewiczwriterlinguisttranslatorpoet
Biography: Llazar Sotir Gusho, commonly known by the pen name Lasgush Poradeci, was an Albanian philologist, poet, translator, writer and pioneer of modern Albanian literature. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century whose works are directly connected with Romanticism and Realism.

Gerhard Liebmann

Born in: Austria
Years: 1970-.. (age 56)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Gerhard Liebmann is an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1998.

Christina Pluhar

Born in: Austria
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
Occupations: choir directorconductortheorbistclassical guitaristharpist
Biography: Christina Pluhar is a theorbist, harpist, conductor, and the founder of the early music ensemble L'Arpeggiata.

Clemens J. Setz

Born in: Austria
Years: 1982-.. (age 44)
Occupations: translatorpoetnovelistwriter
Biography: Clemens J. Setz is an Austrian writer and translator.

Anton Korošec

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1872-1940 (aged 68)
Occupations: Catholic priesttheologianpoliticianwriter
Biography: Anton Korošec was a Slovene Yugoslav politician, a prominent member of the conservative People's Party, a Roman Catholic priest and a noted orator.

Victor Francis Hess

Born in: Austria
Years: 1883-1964 (aged 81)
Occupations: university teacherresearcherphysicist
Biography: Victor Franz Hess was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.

Gordon Gollob

Born in: Austria
Years: 1912-1987 (aged 75)
Occupations: military personnelsoldieraircraft pilot
Biography: Gordon Gollob was an Austrian fighter pilot during World War II. A fighter ace, he was credited with 150 enemy aircraft shot down in over 340 combat missions. Gollob claimed the majority of his victories over the Eastern Front, and six over the Western Front.

Hermann Heller

Born in: Poland
Years: 1891-1933 (aged 42)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: Graduated with doctorate
Occupations: juristphilosopheruniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Hermann Heller was a German legal scholar and philosopher of Jewish descent. He was active in the non-Marxist wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. He attempted to formulate the theoretical foundations of the social-democratic relations to the state, and nationalism. He was politically active in the relatively conservative Hofgeismarer Kreis of the SPD and is believed to have authored the group's statement of principles.

Georg Friedrich Haas

Born in: Austria
Years: 1953-.. (age 73)
Occupations: composerclassical pianistuniversity teacheracademic musician
Biography: Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, pieces by Haas received the most votes (49), and his composition in vain (2000) topped the list.

Beate Hartinger-Klein

Born in: Austria
Years: 1959-.. (age 67)
Occupations: businesspersonpolitician
Biography: Beate Hartinger-Klein is an Austrian healthcare and insurance manager, educator and politician. A member of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), she was a member of the National Council from October 1999 to December 2002. From December 2017 to May 2019, Hartinger-Klein served as minister of social affairs in the first government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

Eduard von Keyserling

Born in: Latvia
Years: 1855-1918 (aged 63)
Occupations: writerplaywright
Biography: Johann Heinrich Eduard Nicolaus Graf von Keyserling was a Baltic German fiction writer and dramatist, an exponent of literary impressionism and associated with the historic region of Courland.

Michael Fleischhacker

Born in: Austria
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Occupations: journalisttelevision presenter
Biography: Michael Fleischhacker is an Austrian journalist. He was director and editor-in-chief of Austrian daily Die Presse from 2004 until 2012.

Fritz Pregl

Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923
Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1869-1930 (aged 61)
Occupations: physicistprofessorchemistpharmacistphysician
Biography: Fritz Pregl, was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.

John Ogilvie

Born in: United Kingdom
Years: 1579-1615 (aged 36)
Occupations: Catholic priest
Biography: John Ogilvie, SJ was a Scottish Jesuit priest. For his work in service to a persecuted Catholic community in 17th century Scotland, and in being hanged for his faith, he became the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.

Martin Kušej

Born in: Austria
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: directortheatrical director
Biography: Martin Kušej is an Austrian theatre and opera director, and is director of the Burgtheater Vienna. According to German news magazine Focus, Kušej belongs to the ten most important theatre directors who have emerged in the German-speaking world since the millennium. He is considered one of the most important directors working today, acclaimed for his dark and incisive productions.

Christian Wehrschütz

Born in: Austria
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: television presenterjuristjournalist
Biography: Christian Ferdinand Wehrschütz, born October 9, 1961, in Graz, is an Austrian journalist. He speaks German, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian/Croatian, French, Slovenian, Macedonian and Albanian and is a military interpreter of Russian and Ukrainian. He is married and has two daughters.

Andreas Mölzer

Born in: Austria
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Occupations: politicianwriterjournalist
Biography: Andreas Mölzer is an Austrian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria.

John Sarkander

Born in: Poland
Years: 1576-1620 (aged 44)
Occupations: Catholic priestChristian minister
Biography: Jan Sarkander was a Polish-Czech Roman Catholic priest. Sarkander was married for a short period of time before he became widowed and pursued a path to the priesthood where he became active in defence of Catholicism during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment and conflict. He himself was arrested on false accusations as a means of silencing him and he refused to give in to his tormenters who tortured him for around a month before he died.

Count Karl von Stürgkh

Born in: Austria
Years: 1859-1916 (aged 57)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Count Karl von Stürgkh was an Austrian politician and Minister-President of Cisleithania during the 1914 July Crisis that led to the outbreak of World War I. He was shot and killed by the Social Democratic politician Friedrich Adler.

Reinhold Lopatka

Born in: Austria
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Reinhold Lopatka is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since the 2024 European Parliament election in Austria. He led the ÖVP list in the elections.

Juliane Bogner-Strauß

Born in: Austria
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: 1999-2002 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: researcherbiochemistmolecular biologistpolitician
Biography: Juliane Bogner-Strauß, is an Austrian molecular biologist, biochemist, and politician in the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Since October 2013 she is Associate Professor at the Institute of Biochemistry of Graz University of Technology. From 18 December 2017 she was Federal Minister for Families and Youth of the Republic of Austria, since 8 January 2018 she is Federal Minister for Women, Families and Youth in the Federal Chancellery. Since 9 July 2018, she is the Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism.

Barbara Frischmuth

Born in: Austria
Years: 1941-2025 (aged 84)
Occupations: playwrightpoetwritertranslatorprose writer
Biography: Barbara Frischmuth was an Austrian writer and translator. She travelled the world, open to other cultures, which influenced her works. Her first novel, Die Klosterschule, shows a student's experiences in a convent school, as well as a feminist attitude and criticism of authorities. She wrote two trilogies of novels in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as a series of "garden books" in the 2000s.

Henrik Dam

Born in: Denmark
Years: 1895-1976 (aged 81)
Occupations: chemistpedagogueuniversity teacherbiochemistphysiologist
Biography: Carl Peter Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.

Marie Kreutzer

Born in: Austria
Years: 1977-.. (age 49)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriter
Biography: Marie Kreutzer is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.

Ernst Moro

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1874-1951 (aged 77)
Occupations: university teacherphysician
Biography: Ernst Moro was a Slovenian physician and pediatrician who was the first in western medicine to describe an infant reflex that was named after him (Moro reflex).

Joseph Marx

Born in: Austria
Years: 1882-1964 (aged 82)
Occupations: composerpianistuniversity teachermusicologistmusic critic
Biography: Joseph Rupert Rudolf Marx was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic. He is best known for his 150 lieder, most accompanied by piano, with a some scored with orchestra.

Nadezhda Suslova

Born in: Russia
Years: 1843-1918 (aged 75)
Occupations: physiciangynecologistobstetriciansurgeon
Biography: Nadezhda Prokofyevna Suslova was Russia's first woman medical doctor and the sister of Polina Suslova. She worked as a gynecologist in Nizhny Novgorod, and was involved in many charity efforts.

Hans Friderichs

Born in: Germany
Years: 1931-2025 (aged 94)
Occupations: juristpolitician
Biography: Hans Friderichs was a German politician who served as the minister of economy from 1972 to 1977. He was also a jurist and businessman.

Martin Polaschek

Born in: Austria
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
Occupations: university teacherjuristlegal historian
Biography: Martin F. Polaschek is an Austrian legal scholar and legal historian who has served as Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research in the Nehammer government since 6 December 2021. An Independent, he was nominated by the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).

Alfons Gorbach

Born in: Austria
Years: 1898-1972 (aged 74)
Occupations: civil servantpolitician
Biography: Alfons Gorbach was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP). He served as Chancellor of Austria from 1961 to 1964.

Heinz Oberhummer

Born in: Austria
Years: 1941-2015 (aged 74)
Occupations: astronomeruniversity teacherphysicistastrophysicistnon-fiction writer
Biography: Heinz Oberhummer, was an Austrian physicist and skeptic.

Marko Krizin

Born in: Croatia
Years: 1589-1619 (aged 30)
Occupations: missionaryCatholic theologianCatholic priest
Biography: Marko Stjepan Krizin, or Marko Križevčanin (Hungarian: Kőrösi Márk, lit. 'Mark of Križevci') was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, professor of theology and missionary, who was active in the 17th century. In the course of the struggle between Catholicism and Calvinism in the region then, he was executed for his faith. He has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, the third Croat to be so honored.

Alois Stadlober

Born in: Austria
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: cross-country skier
Biography: Alois Stadlober is an Austrian former cross-country skier who competed from 1988 to 2000. He earned two medals at the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay and a silver in the 10 km.

Lisa Kaltenegger

Born in: Austria
Years: 1977-.. (age 49)
Occupations: astrophysicistastronomerphysicistuniversity teacher
Biography: Lisa Kaltenegger is an Austrian astronomer specialising in the modeling and characterization of exoplanets and the search for life. On 1 July 2014, she was appointed Associate Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Previously, she held a joint position at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg where she was the Emmy Noether Research Group Leader for the "Super-Earths and Life" group, and at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Cambridge, MA. She was appointed Lecturer in 2008 at Harvard University and 2011 at University of Heidelberg.

Janko Kersnik

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1852-1897 (aged 45)
Occupations: literary criticpoetjuristwritermayor
Biography: Janko Kersnik was a writer and politician from Austria-Hungary who was an ethnic Slovene. Together with Josip Jurčič, he is considered the most important representative of literary realism in the Slovene language.

Gerald Klug

Born in: Austria
Years: 1968-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Gerald Klug is an Austrian jurist and politician who served as minister of transport, innovation and technology in 2016. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served as minister of defence and sports from 2013 to 2016.

Siegfried Nagl

Born in: Austria
Years: 1963-.. (age 63)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Siegfried Nagl is an Austrian politician with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was mayor of Graz from 2003 to 2021.

Robert Holzmann

Born in: Austria
Years: 1949-.. (age 77)
Occupations: economist
Biography: Robert Holzmann is an Austrian economist who was Governor of Austria’s central bank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) from 2019 to 2025. His term of appointment runs from September 1, 2019, to August 31, 2025.

Aurel Popovici

Born in: Romania
Years: 1863-1917 (aged 54)
Occupations: opinion journalistpoliticianjournalist
Biography: Aurel Constantin Popovici was an ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian lawyer and politician.

Jörg Leichtfried

Born in: Austria
Years: 1967-.. (age 59)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Jörg Leichtfried is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a member of the National Council since the 2017 elections. Since 3 March 2025 he is the State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior responsible for the Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service (DSN).

Franz Miklosich

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1813-1891 (aged 78)
Occupations: professorlibrariancensorlinguistpedagogue
Biography: Franz Miklosich was a Slovenian philologist and rector of the University of Vienna.

Martin Bartenstein

Born in: Austria
Years: 1953-.. (age 73)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Martin Bartenstein is an Austrian businessman and politician who held different cabinet portfolios between 1995 and 2008. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party.

Ivan Bobersky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1873-1947 (aged 74)
Occupations: pedagoguephysical education teacherscout
Biography: Ivan Mykolayovych Bobersky, was a Ukrainian teacher and theorist who played a key role in promoting Ukrainian national physical culture.

Richard Mollier

Born in: Italy
Years: 1863-1935 (aged 72)
Occupations: professorengineerphysicist
Biography: Richard Mollier was a German professor of Applied Physics and Mechanics in Göttingen and Dresden, a pioneer of experimental research in thermodynamics, particularly for water, steam, and moist air.

Otto Erich Deutsch

Born in: Austria
Years: 1883-1967 (aged 84)
Occupations: music historianlibrarianmusicologistcomposerbiographer
Biography: Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition published in 1978 in German. It is from this catalogue that the D numbers used to identify Schubert's works derive.

Petina Gappah

Born in: Zambia
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: Graduated with Doctor of Laws in commercial law
Occupations: novelistjuristjournalistcommercial lawyershort story writer
Biography: Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin.

Josef Krainer junior

Born in: Austria
Years: 1930-2016 (aged 86)
Occupations: juristpolitician
Biography: Josef Krainer junior was an Austrian politician and Governor of Styria from 1981 to 1996. He was the son of Governor Josef Krainer Sr. and a member of the Austrian People's Party.

Franz Dinghofer

Born in: Austria
Years: 1873-1956 (aged 83)
Occupations: ministerjudgepolitician
Biography: Franz Seraph Dinghofer was an Austrian politician, lawyer and judge who served as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice from 1928 to 1938, having previously served as Minister of Justice from 1926 to 1927 and Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 1926 to 1928.

Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1806-1876 (aged 70)
Occupations: poet lawyerpoetwritertranslatorstatesperson
Biography: Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, also known under the name Anastasius Grün, was an Austrian poet and liberal politician from Carniola, a former Habsburg crown land in today's Slovenia.

Constant von Wurzbach

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1818-1893 (aged 75)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: Studied in 1835-1837
Occupations: bibliographerlibrarianofficialopinion journalistlexicographer
Biography: Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.

Claudia Bandion-Ortner

Born in: Austria
Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
Occupations: juristjudgepolitician
Biography: Claudia Bandion-Ortner is an Austrian judge and politician, who served as the minister of justice.

Sabine Ladstätter

Born in: Austria
Years: 1968-2024 (aged 56)
Occupations: classical archaeologist
Biography: Sabine Ladstätter was an Austrian classical archaeologist. She was Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) from 2009 to 2024.

Alois Riehl

Born in: Italy
Years: 1844-1924 (aged 80)
Occupations: university teacherbotanistphilosopher
Biography: Alois Adolf Riehl was an Austrian neo-Kantian and anti-psychologistic philosopher. He was born in Bozen (Bolzano) in the Austrian Empire (now in Italy). He was the brother of the Austrian engineer and building contractor Josef Riehl.

Wilhelm Krautwaschl

Born in: Austria
Years: 1963-.. (age 63)
Occupations: Catholic deaconCatholic bishopCatholic priest
Biography: Wilhelm Krautwaschl is an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate. He has served as the bishop of Graz-Seckau since 2015.

Siegmund von Hausegger

Born in: Austria
Years: 1872-1948 (aged 76)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: Studied philosophy, literature, study of history, and art history
Occupations: composerconductoruniversity teacherwriter
Biography: Siegmund von Hausegger was an Austrian composer and conductor.

Beatrix Karl

Born in: Austria
Years: 1967-.. (age 59)
Occupations: university teacherpolitician
Biography: Beatrix Karl is an Austrian academic and politician. A former member of the National Council, she served as Minister for Science and Research (2010–2011) and as Minister of Justice (2011–2013) in the first Faymann government.

Lazar Tomanović

Born in: Montenegro
Years: 1845-1932 (aged 87)
Occupations: teachercivil servantpoliticianwriterjournalist
Biography: Lazar Tomanović, PhD was a Montenegrin and Dalmatian Serb writer, politician and diplomat, who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Montenegro, as well the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenegro, under the regime of King Nikola I.

Kurt Otto Friedrichs

Born in: Germany
Years: 1901-1982 (aged 81)
Enrolled in the University of Graz: Studied in 1921
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Kurt Otto Friedrichs was a German-American mathematician. He was the co-founder of the Courant Institute at New York University, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science.

Alfred Kolleritsch

Born in: Austria
Years: 1931-2020 (aged 89)
Occupations: writerpoetphilosopheruniversity teacher
Biography: Alfred Kolleritsch was an Austrian journalist, poet and philosopher.

Ines Stilling

Born in: Austria
Years: 1976-.. (age 50)
Occupations: civil servantpolitician
Biography: Ines Stilling is an Austrian civil servant who served as the Minister for Women, Families and Youth in the Bierlein government.

August Musger

Born in: Austria
Years: 1868-1929 (aged 61)
Occupations: Catholic priestphysicist
Biography: Professor August Musger was an Austrian priest and physicist who is best remembered for his invention of slow motion.

Axel van Trotsenburg

Born in: Netherlands
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Biography: Axel van Trotsenburg is a dual Dutch-Austrian economist and development expert. He had a distinguished 37 year career at the World Bank and was the World Bank’s number two as the Senior Managing Director (SMD) responsible for Development Policy and Partnerships until the end of November 2025, where he oversaw the expansion of engagement on global public goods, climate change, and debt sustainability, and led the World Bank's engagement with the United Nations, G20, G7, and other international financial institutions. van Trotsenburg had several positions at the World Bank including managing director of Operations and acting CFO and CEO.

Johann Weber

Born in: Austria
Years: 1927-2020 (aged 93)
Occupations: Catholic priestCatholic bishop
Biography: Johann Weber was an Austrian Catholic bishop.

Gabriel Gruber

Born in: Austria
Years: 1740-1805 (aged 65)
Occupations: astronomerengineertheologianarchitect
Biography: Gabriel Gruber, SJ was an Austrian Jesuit and polymath of Slovenian descent. Aside from his classical formation for the priesthood, his interests ranged across agriculture, architecture, astronomy, engineering, hydrology, physics, chemistry and art.

Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac

Years: 1621-1684 (aged 63)
Occupations: diplomatstatespersonpolitician
Biography: Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac was a nobleman and statesman of Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Chancellor (1658–1684) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Gottfried Schatz

Born in: Austria
Years: 1936-2015 (aged 79)
Occupations: biochemistchemistnon-fiction writeruniversity teacher
Biography: Gottfried Schatz was a Swiss-Austrian biochemist.

Sofia Galechko

Born in: Poland
Years: 1891-1918 (aged 27)
Occupations: military personnelsoldier
Biography: Sofia Halechko was an Austro-Hungarian soldier and Ukrainian nationalist that was a member of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen during World War I. Her first language was Polish but she hoped to achieve independence for Ukrainians and joined the riflemen to do so.

Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff

Born in: Austria
Years: 1950-.. (age 76)
Occupations: diplomatjurist
Biography: Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, is the Austrian ambassador in Prague.

Franz Unger

Born in: Austria
Years: 1800-1870 (aged 70)
Occupations: scientific collectorbotanistwritermycologistuniversity teacher
Biography: Franz Joseph Andreas Nicolaus Unger was an Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist.

Milan Zver

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: politiciansociologist
Biography: Milan Zver is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. He is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party, part of the European People's Party. He is the Vice-President of the Slovenian Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Education and Sports from 2004 to 2008.

Matko Laginja

Born in: Croatia
Years: 1852-1930 (aged 78)
Occupations: juristwriterpolitician
Biography: Matko Laginja was a Croatian lawyer and politician.

György Almásyn

Born in: Slovenia
Years: 1867-1933 (aged 66)
Occupations: explorerethnographerornithologistzoologist
Biography: György Ede Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós was a Hungarian Asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer. His son, László Almásy, was an aviator, Afrologist and soldier.

Christian Buchmann

Born in: Austria
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Christian Buchmann is an Austrian politician (Austrian People's Party) and Member of the Styrian Parliament. He was the President of the Austrian Federal Council from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021.

Izidor Cankar

Born in: Serbia
Years: 1886-1958 (aged 72)
Occupations: journalistlinguisttheologianwritertranslator
Biography: Izidor Cankar was a Slovenian author, art historian, diplomat, journalist, translator, and liberal conservative politician. He was one of the most important Slovenian art historians of the first part of the 20th century, and one of the most influential cultural figures in interwar Slovenia.

Gabriel Anton

Born in: Czech Republic
Years: 1858-1933 (aged 75)
Occupations: physicianpsychiatristuniversity teacherneurologist
Biography: Gabriel Anton was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia.

Martin Eichtinger

Born in: Austria
Years: 1961-.. (age 65)
Occupations: diplomat
Biography: Martin Eichtinger is an Austrian diplomat, lawyer and former politician (ÖVP, Austrian People's Party, member of the EPP - European People's Party). From March 2018 to March 2023, Martin Eichtinger served as a member of the Regional Government of Lower Austria responsible for Housing, Labour and International Relations. After completing his term of office, he returned to the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. He was special envoy and coordinator for Austria's neighborhood policy and the foreign policy dimension of the Danube Region, before becoming the director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in 2025.

Helga Konrad

Born in: Austria
Years: 1948-2024 (aged 76)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Helga Konrad was an Austrian politician.

Karl Ritter von Stremayr

Born in: Austria
Years: 1823-1904 (aged 81)
Occupations: pedagoguejudgepolitician
Biography: Karl Ritter von Stremayr was an Austrian statesman. He served as the 9th Minister-President of Cisleithania.

Gabriele Schaunig-Kandut

Born in: Austria
Years: 1965-.. (age 61)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Gabriele "Gaby" Schaunig-Kandut is an Austrian lawyer, politician from the (SPÖ) and since 2013 state councilor in the Carinthian state government Kaiser II, responsible for finance, investments, development and research since 2018. Since 13 April 2023, she has been 1st Deputy Governor, previously she was 2nd Deputy Governor.

Axel Kassegger

Born in: Austria
Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Axel Kassegger is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the National Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2013.