2013 in Austria
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Incumbents
Governors
- Burgenland: Hans Niessl
- Carinthia: Gerhard Dörfler (until 28 March); Peter Kaiser (from 28 March)
- Lower Austria: Erwin Pröll
- Salzburg: Gabi Burgstaller (until 19 June); Wilfried Haslauer Jr. (from 19 June)
- Styria: Franz Voves
- Tyrol: Günther Platter
- Upper Austria: Josef Pühringer
- Vienna: Michael Häupl
- Vorarlberg: Markus Wallner
Events
- 21 January - Two Vienna S-Bahn trains packed with morning commuters collide on a single-track stretch of line between Hütteldorf and Penzing in Vienna's suburbs in eastern Austria, leaving 41 people injured, five of them seriously. Among the injured is the driver of one of the trains. Both trains were operating the Line S45 service, and both trains were made up of 4024-series rolling stock.[1][2][3][4]
Deaths
- 7 May: Peter Rauhofer, DJ, remixer and record producer, 48[5]
- 26 May: Otto Muehl, artist, 87[6]
References
- ^ Shields, Michael (21 January 2013). "Dozens hurt in head-on Vienna commuter train crash". Reuters.
- ^ "Austrian trains in head-on crash". BBC News. 21 January 2013.
- ^ "Five hurt in Vienna rush hour train crash". London: AFP via The Telegraph. 21 January 2013.
- ^ "Zugscrash: 'Menschliche Fehlleistung'" [Train Crash: Human Failure]. wien.orf.at (in German). ORF. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^ "Peter Rauhofer, award-winning DJ, dies aged 48". BBC News. 8 May 2013.
- ^ Margalit Fox (30 May 2013). "Otto Muehl, Actionist Artist And Provocateur, Dies at 87". New York Times. Retrieved 23 June 2026.