2022 in Austria

Incumbents

• President: Alexander Van der Bellen
• Chancellor: Karl Nehammer

  Governors

• Burgenland: Hans Peter Doskozil
• Carinthia: Peter Kaiser
• Lower Austria: Johanna Mikl-Leitner
• Salzburg: Wilfried Haslauer Jr.
• Styria:
• * Hermann Schützenhöfer
• * Christopher Drexler
• Tyrol:
• * Günther Platter
• * Anton Mattle
• Upper Austria: Thomas Stelzer
• Vienna: Michael Ludwig
• Vorarlberg: Markus Wallner

  Events

• January 1 – Austria legalizes assisted suicide for people over the age of 18 years who are terminally ill or who suffer from a permanent, debilitating condition.
• January 20 – The Austrian National Council votes 137–13 to approve a bill requiring people over 18 years to receive the COVID-19 vaccine beginning on 1 February, becoming the first country in the European Union to do so.
• February 28 – Diplomats from the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran gather in Vienna, Austria to seek a deal to revive the 2015 Iran deal.
• May 9 – Münchendorf derailment
• May 22 – Austria confirms its first case of monkeypox.
• August 18 – 2022 European derecho: Five people are killed by storms in Austria.
• September 25 – The 2022 Tyrolean state election was held. Incumbent Günther Platter resigns and Anton Mattle gets elected
• October 9 – 2022 Austrian presidential election: Incumbent president Alexander van der Bellen secures reelection after receiving more than 50% of the votes.
• December 8 – Austria announces that it will veto Bulgaria and Romania's accession to the Schengen Area, citing fears of increased illegal immigration.
• December 15 – At least four people are injured, one of them seriously, when an avalanche hits the ski resort Zürs/Lech in Vorarlberg, Austria. Emergency services rescue all of the ten people who had been buried alive.

  Deaths

January

• January 8 – Manfred Srb, 80, Austrian politician, MP .
• January 10
• * Alfred Gager, 79, Austrian footballer .
• * Friedrich Kurrent, 90, Austrian architect and author.
• January 11 – Herman Rechberger, 74, Austrian-born Finnish composer.
• January 19 – Elmar Fischer, 85, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Feldkirch, COVID-19.
• January 20 – Karolos Trikolidis, 74, Austrian conductor.
• January 26 – Ernst Stankovski, 93, Austrian actor .
• January 27 – Karl Spiehs, 90, Austrian film producer .
• January 28 – Brigitte Kowanz, 64, Austrian artist.

  February

• February 1 – Walter Barylli, 100, Austrian violinist.
• February 7 – Gustav Ortner, 86, Austrian diplomat, ambassador to the Holy See .
• February 8
• * Gerhard Roth, 79, Austrian writer.
• * Herbert Thalhammer, 66, Austrian politician.
• February 9
• * Joseph Horovitz, composer and conductor.
• * Reinhard Schwabenitzky, 74, Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter.
• February 13 – Ferdinand Hueter, 62, Austrian politician.
• February 18 – Toni Stricker, 91, Austrian composer and violinist.
• February 25 – Eleonore Schönborn, 101, Austrian politician.
• February 28 – Hans Menasse, 91, Austrian footballer .

  March

• March 1 – Alfred Mayer, 85, Austrian politician.
• March 3 – Josef Bauer, 88, Austrian artist.
• March 4 – Wilhelm Huberts, 84, Austrian football player and manager.
• March 8
• * René Clemencic, 94, Austrian composer.
• * Maria Simon, 103, Austrian sociologist.
• March 13 – Erhard Busek, 80, Austrian politician, vice-chancellor .
• March 17 – Christopher Alexander, 85, Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist.
• March 18 – Alfons Dirnberger, 80, Austrian footballer .

  April

• April 1 – Gerhard J. Woeginger, 57, Austrian mathematician.
• April 7 – Hellmuth Matiasek, 90, Austrian theatre director, theatre manager, and drama school president .
• April 8 – Mimi Reinhardt, 107, Austrian secretary .
• April 18 – Hermann Nitsch, 83, Austrian artist .
• April 21 – Renate Holm, 90, German-Austrian actress and operatic soprano .
• April 24 – Willi Resetarits, 73, Austrian singer, comedian, and human rights activist, fall.
• April 26 – Inge Bernstein, 91, Austrian-born English judge.
• April 27 – Maria L. Marcus, 88, Austrian-born American lawyer.

  May

• May 4 – Albin Julius, 54, Austrian musician .
• May 13 – Rosmarie Trapp, 93, Austrian-born American singer .
• May 18 – Thomas Resetarits, 82, Austrian sculptor.

  June

• June 4 – Frank Hoffmann, 83, German-Austrian actor .
• June 8 – Wolfgang Reisinger, 66, Austrian jazz percussionist, ruptured aneurysm.
• June 12 – Heidi Horten, 81, Austrian art collector.
• June 13 – Theresia Haidlmayr, 66, Austrian politician and disability rights activist, MP .
• June 14 – Hermann Fillitz, 98, Austrian art historian.
• June 20
• * Kurt Equiluz, 93, Austrian operatic tenor .
• * Stefan Geosits, 94, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and historian.
• June 25 – Dietmar Streitler, 58, Austrian Olympic wrestler .
• June 26 – Hans Hollmann, 89, Austrian director and actor.

  July

• July 4 – Robert Hoffmann, 82, Austrian actor .
• July 13 – Sixtus Lanner, 88, Austrian politician, MP .
• July 16 – Herbert W. Franke, 95, Austrian scientist and writer.
• July 17 – Ilona Graenitz, 79, Austrian politician, MP and MEP .
• July 20 – Alice Harnoncourt, 91, Austrian violinist .
• July 22 – Stefan Soltész, 73, Hungarian-Austrian conductor.
• July 24 – Lotte Ingrisch, 92, Austrian author.

  August

• August 7 – Gerd Kaminski, 79, Austrian legal scholar.
• August 19 – Egon Pajenk, 72, Austrian footballer .
• August 24 – Lily Renée, 101, Austrian-born American comic book artist.
• August 28 – Peter Stephan Zurbriggen, 79, Swiss Roman Catholic archbishop, apostolic nuncio to Austria .

  September

• September 15 – Alois Roppert, 88, Austrian politician, MP .
• September 27 – Kurt Binder, 78, Austrian theoretical physicist.

  October

• October 3 – Johann Müllner, 90, Austrian farmer and politician.
• October 4 – Felicitas Kuhn, 96, Austrian children's book illustrator.
• October 6 – Günter Vetter, 86, Austrian politician.
• October 13 – Dagmar Rom, 94, Austrian skier, Olympic silver medallist .
• October 16 – Josef Zemann, 99, Austrian mineralogist and geologist.
• October 17 – Peter Polleruhs, 72, Austrian engineer and politician, MP .
• October 19 – Kassian Lauterer, 88, Austrian Roman Catholic priest, abbot of Wettingen-Mehrerau and member of the Cistercians .
• October 22 – Dietrich Mateschitz, 78, Austrian businessman, co-founder of Red Bull GmbH.

  November

• November 1 – Karl Svoboda, 92, Austrian politician, member of the Municipal Council and Landtag of Vienna .
• November 4 – Alois Reicht, 94, Austrian politician, MP .
• November 13 – Johanna Priglinger, 36, Austrian politician, member of the Landtag of Upper Austria .
• November 16 – Gerhard Rodax, 57, Austrian footballer, hit by train.
• November 22 – Peter Sternad, 76, Austrian Olympic hammer thrower .
• November 29 – Edmund Freibauer, 85, Austrian politician, president of the Landtag of Lower Austria .
• November 30 – Christiane Hörbiger, 84, Austrian actress .

  December

• December 4 – Karl Merkatz, 92, Austrian actor .
• December 9 – Fredrick Terna, 99, Austrian-born American painter and Holocaust survivor.
• December 12 – Josef Schagerl, 99, Austrian sculptor.
• December 13 – Ludwig Hoffmann-Rumerstein, 85, Austrian Roman Catholic official, lieutenant ad interim of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• December 14 – Franz Kurzreiter, 78, Austrian politician, member of the Landtag of Lower Austria .
• December 17
• * Elmar Kunauer, 82, Austrian Olympic sprinter .
• * Albert Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian real estate executive.
• December 31 – Tom Karen, 96, Austrian-born British industrial designer.