2010 in Austria

Events from the year 2010 in Austria

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See also:	Other events of 2010 List of years in Austria

Incumbents

• President: Heinz Fischer
• Chancellor: Werner Faymann

Governors

• Burgenland: Hans Niessl
• Carinthia: Gerhard Dörfler
• Lower Austria: Erwin Pröll
• Salzburg: Gabi Burgstaller
• Styria: Franz Voves
• Tyrol: Günther Platter
• Upper Austria: Josef Pühringer
• Vienna: Michael Häupl
• Vorarlberg: Herbert Sausgruber

Events

• January 1: The Bundesamt zur Korruptionsprävention und Korruptionsbekämpfung, abbreviated BAK, is established, replacing the Büro für Interne Angelegenheiten
• January 17: The political party List Burgenland is founded
• April 25: 2010 Austrian presidential election
• May 30: 2010 Burgenland state election
• September 26: 2010 Styrian state election
• October 10: 2010 Viennese state election

Births

Main article: births in 2010

Further information: Category:2010 births

Deaths

January

• January 2: Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien).^[1]
• January 3: Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.^[2]
• January 8: Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor.^[3]
• January 11: Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer.^[4]

February

• February 19: Bruno Gironcoli, 73, Austrian sculptor, after long illness.^[5]

March

• March 3: Franz Eibler, 85, Austrian Olympic weightlifter.^[6]

April

• April 14: Gerhard Zemann, 70, Austrian actor, heart attack.^[7]
• April 19: Manfred Angerer, 56, Austrian musicologist.^[8]
• April 20: Heinz Gappmayr, 84, Austrian artist.^[9]

May

• May 15:
  • Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian footballer, heart attack.^[10]
  • Archduke Rudolf of Austria, 90, Austrian nobleman, youngest son of Emperor Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.^[11]
• May 20: Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born American mathematician, Parkinson's disease.^[12]

June

• June 14: Resi Hammerer, 85, Austrian Olympic alpine skier, bronze medalist (1948 Winter Olympics).^[13]
• June 17: Hans Dichand, 89, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher.^[14]
• June 21: Ingeborg Pertmayr, 63, Austrian Olympic diver.^[15]
• June 27: Andreas Okopenko, 80, Austrian writer.^[16]
• June 29: Rudolf Leopold, 85, Austrian art collector.^[17]
• June 30: Ditta Zusa Einzinger, 79, Austrian singer (Lolita), cancer.

July

• July 8: Robert Freitag, 94, Austrian-born Swiss actor.^[18]
• July 11: Rudi Strittich, 88, Austrian football player and coach.^[19]
• July 26: Brigitte Schwaiger, 61, Austrian writer.^[20]

August

• August 11: Gretel Beer, 89, Austrian-born British cookery and travel writer.^[21]
• August 17: Ricardo José Weberberger, 70, Austrian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Barreiras (1979–2010).^[22]

September

• September 16: Hans Wagner, 87, Austrian ice hockey player.^[23]
• September 20: Jakob Mayr, 86, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Salzburg.^[24]

October

• October 8:
  • Malcolm Mencer Martin, 89, Austrian-British pediatric endocrinologist, injuries sustained after being hit by car.^[25]
  • Karl Prantl, 86, Austrian sculptor, stroke.^[26]
• October 16: Friedrich Katz, 83, Austrian anthropologist and historian, cancer.^[27]
• October 20: Eva Ibbotson, 85, Austrian-born British novelist (Journey to the River Sea, The Secret of Platform 13).^[28]
• October 25: Andreas Maurer, 91, Austrian politician, Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria (1966–1981).^[29]

November

• November 3: Alfons Benedikter, 92, Austrian politician.^[30]
• November 7:
  • Kurt Baier, 93, Austrian philosopher.^[31]
  • Hedy Stenuf, 88, Austrian Olympic figure skater.^[32]
• November 12: Ernst von Glasersfeld, 93, Austrian-born American philosopher (radical constructivism).^[33]

December

• December 9: Alexander Kerst, 86, Austrian actor.^[34]
• December 17: Anton Kunz, 95, Austrian Olympic water polo player^[35]
• December 28: Agathe von Trapp, 97, Austrian-born American singer, member of the Trapp family (The Sound of Music).^[36]

References

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3. "Conductor Otmar Suitner has died, aged 87". Gramophone.
4. Kurt Liebhart hat uns verlassen July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (in German)
5. "Bruno Gironcoli: Sculptor celebrated for his monumental designs and distorted outsize replicas of everyday objects". The Independent.
7. . ORF (in German). Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
8. "Erinnerung an Manfred Angerer". April 25, 2010.
9. "Heinz Gappmayr gestorben". ORF (in German).
10. Ex-Liverpool FC striker Besian Idrizaj dies of a heart attack
11. "Archduke Rudolf of Austria". The Times.
12. Ziff, Deborah (May 21, 2010). "Noted UW-Madison mathematician Rudin dies at 89". Wisconsin State Journal.
14. ""Krone"-Herausgeber Hans Dichand gestorben". Der Standard (in German).
15. "Olympedia – Inge Pertmayr".
16. "Andreas Okopenko ist tot". Der Standard (in German).
17. "Kunstsammler und Museumsdirektor Rudolf Leopold gestorben". Der Standard (in German).
18. Schauspieler und Regisseur Robert Freitag gestorben (in German)
19. "Trauer um Rudi Strittich". Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (in German).
20. "Brigitte Schwaiger ist tot: "Du schlafe gut"". Die Presse (in German). July 26, 2010.
21. "Gretel Beer". The Daily Telegraph. September 2010. from the original on June 10, 2023.
22. Cheney, David M. "Bishop Ricardo José Weberberger". Catholic-Hierarchy.
23. . www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
24. "Salzburger Alt-Weihbischof Jakob Mayr ist tot" [Salzburg suffragan bishop emeritus Jacob Mayr is dead]. salzburg24.at (in Austrian German). September 20, 2010. Archived from the original on September 18, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
25. Detchant, Walton of (2011). "Malcolm Mencer Martin". BMJ. 342: d1403. doi:10.1136/bmj.d1403. S2CID 74807452.
26. . ORF (in German). Archived from the original on July 6, 2011.
27. Schorsch, Kristen. Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019.
28. Pauli, Michelle (October 22, 2010). "Children's author Eva Ibbotson dies aged 85". The Guardian.
29. "Alt-Landeshauptmann Andreas Maurer gestorben" (in German). October 25, 2010.
30. (in German). Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
31. "Obituary: Kurt Baier / One of the founders of Pitt's philosophy department".
32. "Hedy Stenuf Byram Obituary". Tributes.com.
33. . Constructivist Psychology Network. November 18, 2010. Archived from the original on December 13, 2010.
34. "Alexander Kerst". Internet Movie Database.
36. "Von Trapp family member dies". The Washington Post.