1972 in Austria

Incumbents

• President: Franz Jonas
• Chancellor: Bruno Kreisky

  Governors

• Burgenland: Theodor Kery
• Carinthia: Hans Sima
• Lower Austria: Andreas Maurer
• Salzburg: Hans Lechner
• Styria: Friedrich Niederl
• Tyrol: Eduard Wallnöfer
• Upper Austria: Erwin Wenzl
• Vienna: Felix Slavik
• Vorarlberg: Herbert Keßler

  Events

• 1 January – Future President of Austria Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.

  Births

• 12 January – Toto Wolff, racing driver
• 29 November – Andreas Goldberger, ski jumper
• 7 December – Hermann Maier, Alpine ski racer

  Deaths

• 12 June: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, biologist
• 13 June: Stephanie von Hohenlohe, spy for Germany in World War II spy
• 31 July: Alfons Gorbach, 15th Chancellor of Austria
• 30 November: Hans Erich Apostel, composer
• 13 December: Gustav Schwarzenegger, police officer, father of Arnold Schwarzenegger