1972 in Austria
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Incumbents
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.[3]
Births
- 12 January – Toto Wolff, racing driver[4]
- 29 November – Andreas Goldberger, ski jumper[5]
- 7 December – Hermann Maier, Alpine ski racer[6]
Deaths
- 12 June: Ludwig von Bertalanffy, biologist (b. 1901)
- 13 June: Stephanie von Hohenlohe, spy for Germany in World War II spy (b. 1891)
- 31 July: Alfons Gorbach, 15th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1898)
- 30 November: Hans Erich Apostel, composer (b. 1901)
- 13 December: Gustav Schwarzenegger, police officer, father of Arnold Schwarzenegger (b. 1907)