2025 in Austria

Events in the year 2025 in Austria.

Incumbents

President: Alexander Van der Bellen
Chancellor: Karl Nehammer (until 10 January), Alexander Schallenberg (acting, 10 January to 3 March); Christian Stocker (starting 3 March)

January – February – Vienna Ball Season
4 January – Karl Nehammer announces his resignation as Chancellor and leader of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) after the party fails to form a government following the 2024 Austrian legislative election.
6 January – Herbert Kickl of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) receives a mandate from President Alexander Van der Bellen to form a new government.
19 January – 2025 Burgenland state election: The SPÖ loses its absolute majority in the Landtag of Burgenland.

4 – 16 February – FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
10 February – A 14-year-old boy is arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack on Wien Westbahnhof railway station in Vienna on behalf of Islamic State.
12 February – Herbert Kickl surrenders his mandate to form a government to President Alexander Van der Bellen after talks with the ÖVP to form a coalition fail.
15 February – 2025 Villach stabbing attack: A 14-year-old boy is killed while five people are injured in a knife attack in Villach. The suspect, a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, is arrested.
27 February – The SPÖ, ÖVP and NEOS announce an agreement to form a coalition government to be led by the ÖVP's Christian Stocker as Chancellor.

3 March – Christian Stocker is inaugurated as Chancellor.
12 March – The government suspends family reunion procedures for migrants, citing issues in adequately integrating them.

Source:

List of Austrian European Film Award winners and nominees
List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

2 January – Thomas Streicher, 66, Austrian mathematician
9 January – Otto Schenk, 94, actor (Dunja, Always Trouble with the Reverend), film (Die Fledermaus) and theatre director
13 January – Walter Deutsch, 101, musicologist
16 January – Hans Dobida, 95, ice hockey administrator, president of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association (1977–1996)
17 January – Martin Pollack, 80, journalist and author
20 January – Reinhard Todt, 75, politician, member (2001–2018) and president (2013, 2018) of the Federal Council
27 January – Baldur Preiml, 85, ski jumper, Olympic bronze medalist (1968)
29 January – Max Schautzer, 84, Austrian-born German television and radio presenter (Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
1 February – Peter Schmidl, 84, clarinetist, principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
2 February:
- Johannes Hübner, 68, politician, member of the National Council (2008–2017) and the Federal Council (2020–2023)
- Marion Wiesel, 94, Austrian-American translator and Holocaust survivor
3 February – Herbert Madejski, 79, politician, MP (2013)
26 February – Hans Pirkner, 78, footballer (Austria Wien, Alpine Donawitz, national team)
12 March:
- Walter Schwimmer, 82, politician and diplomat, secretary general of the Council of Europe (1999–2004)
- Norbert Cyffer, 81, German-Austrian linguist
26 March – Hannes Tretter, 73, lawyer