2021 in Austria

Events in the year 2021 in Austria.

Incumbents

Governors

Events

Ongoing

COVID-19 pandemic in Austria

September

September 26
* 2021 Graz local elections are held.
* 2021 Upper Austrian state election are held. Thomas Stelzer of the Austrian People's Party remains Governor.

October

6 October – Agents of the raided the Federal Chancellery and the headquarters of the ÖVP as part of a corruption probe targeting Kurz and his "inner circle".
9 October – Sebastian Kurz resigns from the chancellorship.
11 October – President Alexander Van der Bellen officially removed Kurz from office and appointed then-Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg as chancellor of Austria.

November

November 17 – 2021 Graz local election: Elke Kahr of the Communist Party of Austria becomes the first female mayor of Graz and first communist mayor of an Austria city.

December

December 6 – Nehammer government is formed.

Deaths

January

January 1 – Traude Dierdorf, 73, Austrian politician, mayor of Wiener Neustadt .
January 6 – Ferdinand Kolarik, 83, Austrian footballer .
January 8 – Eva Badura-Skoda, 91, Austrian musicologist.
January 24 – Arik Brauer, 92, Austrian artist, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

February

February 25 – Klaus Emmerich, 92, Austrian journalist, COVID-19.

March

March 11 – Peter Patzak, 76, Austrian film director and screenwriter.

April

April 1 – Hugo Portisch, 94, Austrian journalist and writer.
April 19 – Rudolf Burger, 82, Austrian philosopher.
April 20 – Alfred Teinitzer, 91, Austrian footballer .

May

May 3
* Alfons Adam, 76, Austrian lawyer and politician, founder of Christian Party of Austria.
* Tatjana Gamerith, 102, German-Austrian painter and graphic artist.
May 19 – Helmut Wopfner, 96, Austrian geologist.

June

June 3 – Wilfried Feichtinger, 70, Austrian gynaecologist.
June 4 – Friederike Mayröcker, 96, Austrian poet.

July

July 2 – Helmut Ashley, 101, Austrian cinematographer .
July 12 – Erich Hasenkopf, 86, Austrian footballer .
July 20
* Ernst Fasan, 94, Austrian lawyer.
* Inge Ginsberg, 99, Austrian-Swiss author and singer, heart failure.
July 22 – Peter Rehberg, British-born electronic musician, heart attack.

August

August 5 – Roger Lenaers, 96, Belgian-born Austrian Jesuit pastor.
August 9 – Peter Richter de Rangenier, 91, Czech-born Austrian composer and conductor.
August 18 – Franz Josef Altenburg, 80, Austrian ceramicist and sculptor.
August 21 – Rudolf Edlinger, 81, Austrian politician and football executive, minister of finance and president of SK Rapid Wien .

September

September 9
* Caspar Einem, 73, Austrian politician, minister of the interior and science, traffic and the arts, member of the National Council .
* Ferry Radax, 89, Austrian filmmaker.

October

October 2 – Herta Staal, 91, Austrian actress .
October 11 – Lukas David, 87, Austrian violinist.
October 14 – Traudl Stark, 91, Austrian child actress .
October 20 – Hans Haselböck, 93, Austrian organist and composer.

November

November 9 – Herbert Salcher, 92, Austrian politician, minister of finance and MP .
November 10 – Otto Pendl, 70, Austrian politician, MP .
November 12 – Paul Gludovatz, 75, Austrian football manager, COVID-19.
November 16 – Renate Mann, 68, Austrian politician, member of the Landtag of Upper Austria .
November 28 – Günter Oberhuber, 67, Austrian Olympic ice hockey player.

December

December 5 – Christine Haidegger, 79, Austrian writer.
December 6 – Elfriede Steurer, 96, Austrian Olympic sprinter.
December 9
* Gunter Hadwiger, 72, Austrian politician.
* Gertraud Jesserer, 77, Austrian actress, house fire.
December 10
* Karin Praxmarer, 77, Austrian politician, councilor .
* Martin Strimitzer, 93, Austrian politician, president and member of the Federal Council.
December 16 – Bert Fragner, 80, Austrian Iranologist.
December 31 – Gertrude Pressburger, 94, Austrian Holocaust survivor.