Events from 1982 in Austria.

Incumbents President – Rudolf Kirchschläger Chancellor – Bruno Kreisky

Governors Burgenland: Theodor Kery Carinthia: Leopold Wagner Lower Austria: Siegfried Ludwig Salzburg: Wilfried Haslauer Sr. Styria: Josef Krainer junior Tyrol: Eduard Wallnöfer Upper Austria: Josef Ratzenböck Vienna: Leopold Gratz Vorarlberg: Herbert Keßler

Events 23 January – Niki Lauda returns to Formula One competition after an absence of two years to partner John Watson at McLaren.

Births

Deaths 3 January – Leo Stern (born 1898) 12 January – Rainer Hinteregger (born 1944), Olympic rower 2 May – Helmut Dantine (born 1918) 25 March – Hugo Huppert, Austrian poet, writer and translator (born 1902) 10 July – Maria Jeritza, soprano (born 1887) 15 September – Edith Kallir (born 1915), Austrian-born American photographer and educator 12 June – Karl von Frisch (born 1886), ethologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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