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State Treaty, which re-established Austrian independence in 1955, when the respective occupying/protective forces were withdrawn.
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The occupied sectors of Vienna
Commandants
American zone
| Commandant[1] |
In Office |
|---|
| 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 zone
| 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 Harold Hogshaw |
December 1946 – November 1949 |
| Cyril Knowles |
November 1949 – September 1952 |
| Ernest Arthur Howard |
October 1952 – September 1955 |
French zone
| 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 zone
| 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 |