List of Commandants of Vienna Sectors

For a similar list concerning Berlin, see List of Commandants of Berlin Sectors.

The following is a list of military commanders of divided and war torn Vienna between 1945 and 1955. Due to the allied division of post-World War II Vienna into distinct, occupied sectors, each had its own military governor, often referred to as commandant. This practice ended officially with the Austrian State Treaty, which re-established Austrian independence in 1955, when the respective occupying/protective forces were withdrawn.

The occupied sectors of Vienna

American

American commanders were:[1]

  • Thomas Edward Lewis: (July 1945 – December 1946)
  • Holmes Ely Dager: (December 1946 – March 1947)
  • Alexander Oscar Gorder: (March 1947 – May 1948)
  • Robert T. Frederick: (May 1948 – November 1948)
  • Ira Platt Swift: (December 1948 – January 1951)
  • William Thrower Fitts, Jr.: (February 1951 – April 1954)
  • William Henry Nutter: (May 1954 – September 1955)

British

British commanders were:[1]

  • Godfrey Vaughan Palmer: (July 1945 – November 1945)
  • Gerald Lloyd Verney: (November 1945 – May 1946)
  • Stephen Berthold Gordon-Smith: (June 1946 – December 1946)
  • John Harold Hogshaw: (December 1946 – November 1949)
  • Cyril Knowles: (November 1949 – September 1952)
  • Ernest Arthur Howard: (October 1952 – September 1955)

French

French commanders were:[1]

  • Henri Noël du Payrat: (July 1945 – February 1946)
  • Henri Maurice Joppé: (February 1946 – July 1949)
  • Pierre Masson: (July 1949 – March 1950)
  • Robert Petetin: (March 1950 – May 1951)
  • Raoul Daviron: (May 1951 – March 1953)
  • Jacques Faure: (April 1953 – November 1953)
  • Pierre Olle-Laprune: (December 1953 – September 1955)

Soviet

Soviet commanders were:[1]

  • Aleksey Vasilyevich Blagodatov: (13 April 1945 – October 1945)
  • Nikita Fedotovich Lebedenko: (October 1945 – May 1948)
  • Dmitry Lvovich Abakumov: (May 1948 – November 1949)
  • Arkady Aleksandrovich Boreyko: (November 1949 – July 1953)
  • Nikolay Matveyevich Molotkov: (July 1953 – September 1955)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Austrian states after 1918
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