This article lists the military commandants of divided Vienna between 1945 and 1955. Following the end of World War II in Europe , the Allies divided 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State Treaty , which re-established Austrian independence in 1955, when the respective occupying/protective forces were withdrawn.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.
Commandants
American sector
Commandant[ 1]
In Office
Thomas Edward Lewis
July 1945 – December 1946
Holmes E. Dager
December 1946 – March 1947
Alexander Oscar Gorder
March 1947 – May 1948
Robert T. Frederick
May 1948 – November 1948
Ira P. Swift
December 1948 – January 1951
William Thrower Fitts, Jr.
February 1951 – April 1954
William Henry Nutter
May 1954 – September 1955
British sector
Commandant[ 1]
In Office
Godfrey Vaughan Palmer
July 1945 – November 1945
Gerald Lloyd Verney
November 1945 – May 1946
Stephen Berthold Gordon-Smith
June 1946 – December 1946
John Hogshaw
December 1946 – November 1949
Cyril Knowles
November 1949 – September 1952
Ernest Arthur Howard
October 1952 – September 1955
French sector
Commandant[ 1]
In Office
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 sector
Commandant[ 1]
In Office
Aleksey Blagodatov
13 April 1945 – October 1945
Nikita Lebedenko
October 1945 – May 1948
Dmitry Abakumov
May 1948 – November 1949
Arkady Boreyko
November 1949 – July 1953
Nikolay Molotkov
July 1953 – September 1955
See also
References
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