List of Galician rulers

This is a list of rulers and officials of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, a state under the Habsburg Monarchy from 1772 ro 1918. From the Partitions of Poland starting in september 1772 up to the fall of Austria-Hungary in 1918, the province was directly subordinate to the Emperors of Austria and the government in Vienna, and then a local Galician Sejm in Lemberg, hence the list includes governors, ministers and other people in charge of the local administration.

Monarchs

*Maria Theresa (1740-1780)
*Joseph II (1780-1790)
*Leopold VII (1790-1792)
*Francis I (1792 - 2 March, 1835)
*Ferdinand I (2 March, 1835 - 2 December, 1848)
*Francis Joseph I (2 December, 1848 - 21 November, 1916)
*Charles I (21 November, 1916 - 11 November, 1918)

Governors

* Count Johann von Persen (September 1772 – January 1774)
* Count András Hadik (January 1774 – June 1774)
* Heinrich Auersperg (June 1774 – June 1780)
* Józef Brigido (June 1780 – October 1794)
* Józef Szekely (October 1794 – July 1795)
* Jan Gaisruck (July 1795 – February 1801)
** Count Josef von Sweerts-Sporck (February 1801 – August 1801), acting
* Baron Józef von Úrményi (September 1801 – July 1806)
** Christian Wurmser (July 1806 – March 1809), acting
* Peter Goess (March 1810 – April 1815)
** Georg Oechsner (April 1815 – July 1815), acting
* Baron Franz von Hauer (August 1815 – November 1822), acting til September 1817
* Ludwig Taafe (November 1822 – August 1826)

Governors-general

* August von Lobkowitz (August 1826 - September 1832)
* Archduke Ferdinand (September 1832 – July 2, 1846)
** Baron Franz von Hochfelden (July 1846 – August 1847), acting
* Count Franz Stadion von Warthausen und Thannhausen (August 1, 1847 – June 1848)
* Baron Wilhelm von Hammerstein (June 1848 – July 1848)
** Count Agenor Gołuchowski, acting
* Wenzel Zalewski (July 30, 1848 – January 15, 1849)
* Count Agenor Gołuchowski (January 15, 1849 – December 13, 1859), 1st time
** Baron Joseph von Kalchberg (1859 – 1860), acting
** Karl von Mosch (1860 – 1861), acting
* Count Alexander Mensdorff-Pouilly (1861 – October 27, 1864)
* Baron Franz von Paumgarten (1864 – October 19, 1866)
* Count Agenor Gołuchowski (October 20, 1866 – October 7, 1867), 2nd time
** Baron Ludwik Choborski (1867-1871), acting
* Count Agenor Gołuchowski (July 20, 1871 – August 3, 1875), 3rd time
* Count Alfred Potocki von Pilawa (November 24, 1875 – August 10, 1883)
* Filip Zaleski (August 10, 1883 – September 1888)
* Count Kazimierz Badeni (October 1888 – September 1895)
* Prince Eustachy Sanguszko (September 25, 1895 – March 1898)
* Count Leon Piliński (March 31, 1898 – June 1903)
* Count Andrzej Potocki (June 8, 1903 – April 12, 1908)
* Michał Bobrzyński (April 28, 1908 – May 14, 1913)
* Witold Korytowski (May 14, 1913 – August 20, 1915)
* "De facto controlled by Russian military governor" (September 1914 – 1915)
* Hermann von Colard (August 1915 – April 8, 1916)
* Baron Erich von Diller (April 1916 – March 1917), exiled due to Russian occupation
* "De facto controlled by Russian military governor" (1916 – July 26, 1917)
* Count Karl Georg Huyn (1917 – November 1, 1918), in fact subordinate to the Regency Council and its General Commissar Prince Witold Czartoryski

Military Governors

Napoleonic Wars

* Count Heinrich von Bellagarde (1806 – 1808), 1st time
* "N/A" (1808 – 1809)
* Count Heinrich von Bellegarde (1809 – 1813), 2nd time
* Baron Michael von Klienmayr (1813 – 1814)

World War I

* Georgy Aleksandrovich Bobrynski (September 1914 – 1915), first Russian occupation
* Fyodor Fyodorovich Trepov (1916 – July 26, 1917), second Russian occupation

Marshals of the Galician Sejm

After Galicia received autonomy in 1861, much of the power was shifted to a local parliament, the Galician Sejm based in Lemberg (Lviv). Along with the Polish parliamentary tradition, the chairman of the parliament was named "marshal".

* Prince Leon Sapieha (April 11, 1861 – March 19, 1875)
* Duke Alfred Potocki von Pilawa (March 19 – December 1875)
* Duke Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (March 7, 1876 – 1876)
* Duke Ludwik Wodzicki (August 8, 1877 – 1881)
* Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz (September 14, 1881 – November 6, 1886)
* Duke Jan Tarnowski (November 18, 1886 – 1890)
* Prince Eustachy Sanguszko (October 14, 1890 – September 24, 1895)
* Duke Stanisław Badeni (October 31, 1895 – October 7, 1901), 1st time
* Duke Andrzej Potocki von Pilawa (October 9, 1901 – 1903)
* Duke Stanisław Badeni (June 26, 1903 – June 1912), 2nd time
* Adam Gołuchowski von Gołuchowo (1913 – April 15, 1914)
* Stanisław Niezabitowski (May 15, 1914 – November 1918)

Ministers of State

"Ministers of State for Galicia, residing in Vienna":

** Kazimierz Grocholski (April 11, 1871 – November 22, 1871), acting
** Josef Unger (November 25, 1871 – April 21, 1873), acting
* Baron Florian Ziemiałkowski (April 21, 1873 – October 11, 1888)
* Filip Zaleski (October 11, 1888 – November 12, 1892)
* "N/A" (November 12, 1892 – November 11, 1893)
* Apolinary Jaworski (November 11, 1893 – September 29, 1895)
** Leon Biliński (September 29, 1895 – January 17, 1897), acting
* Edward Rittner (January 17, 1896 – November 30, 1897)
* "Vacant" (November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1897)
* Baron Hermann von Loebl (December 16, 1897 – March 5, 1898)
* Adam Jędrzejowicz (March 5, 1898 – October 2, 1899)
* Kazimierz Chłędowski (October 2, 1899 – January 18, 1900)
* Leonard Piętak (January 19, 1900 – May 28, 1906)
* Count Wojciech Dzieduszycki (June 2, 1906 – November 9, 1907)
* Dawid Abrahamowicz (November 9, 1907 – March 3, 1909)
* Władysław Dulęba (March 3, 1909 – January 9, 1911)
* Wacław Zaleski (January 9, 1911 – November 19, 1911)
* Władysław Długosz (November 19, 1911 – December 28, 1913)
* "Vacant" (December 28, 1913 – January 2, 1914)
* Zdzisław Karol Dzierżykraj-Morawski (January 2, 1914 – October 21, 1916)
* Michał Bobrzyński (October 31, 1916 – June 23, 1917)
* Juliusz Twardowski (June 23, 1917 – July 25, 1918)
* Kazimierz Gałecki July 26, 1918 – October 30, 1918)

See also

* List of rulers of Austria
* List of Polish monarchs