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State Treaty , which re-established Austrian independence in 1955, when the respective occupying/protective forces were withdrawn.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
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