Editing Austrian People's Party (section)

== Organization ==

=== Symbols ===
<gallery>
 ÖVP-Logo (80er).svg|Logo used in the 1980s
 ÖVP Logo.svg|Logo before 2017
 Austrian People's Party logo.png|Logo with [[Flag of Austria|flag]] before 2017
 Volkspartei Logo 2018.svg|Party logo 2017 - 2022
 Logo neue VP tuerkis.png|[[Turquoise (color)|Turquoise]] variant of the Party-Logo 2017 - 2022
 Volkspartei Logo 2022.svg|Party Logo since 2022
</gallery>

=== Chairpersons since 1945 ===
The chart below shows a timeline of ÖVP chairpersons and the [[Chancellor of Austria|Chancellors of Austria]]. The left black bar shows all the chairpersons (''Bundesparteiobleute'', abbreviated as CP) of the ÖVP party and the right bar shows the corresponding make-up of the Austrian government at that time. The red (SPÖ) and black (ÖVP) colours correspond to which party led the federal government (''Bundesregierung'', abbreviated as ''Govern.''). The last names of the respective Chancellors are shown, with the Roman numeral standing for the [[Cabinet (government)|cabinets]].

<timeline>
ImageSize  = width:400 height:530
PlotArea   = width:350  height:450 left:50 bottom:50
Legend     = columns:3 left:50 top:25 columnwidth:50

DateFormat = yyyy
Period     = from:1945 till:2023
TimeAxis   = orientation:vertical
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1945

# there is no automatic collision detection,
# so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

Colors     =
  id:ÖVP  value:gray(0.25) legend:ÖVP
  id:SPÖ  value:red    legend:SPÖ
  id:independent value:gray(0.85) legend:independent
#  id:FPÖ  value:blue    legend:FPÖ

Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar
Define $dy = -4 # adjust height

PlotData   =

  bar:CP color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S

  from:1945  till:1945 shift:($dx,1)      color:ÖVP    text:[[Leopold Kunschak]]
  from:1945  till:1952 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Leopold Figl]]
  from:1952  till:1960 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Julius Raab]]
  from:1960  till:1963 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Alfons Gorbach]]
  from:1963  till:1970 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Josef Klaus]]
  from:1970  till:1971 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Hermann Withalm]]
  from:1971  till:1975 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Karl Schleinzer]]
  from:1975  till:1979 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Josef Taus]]
  from:1979  till:1989 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Alois Mock]]
  from:1989  till:1991 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Josef Riegler]]
  from:1991  till:1995 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Erhard Busek]]
  from:1995  till:2007 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Wolfgang Schüssel]]
  from:2007  till:2008 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Wilhelm Molterer]]
  from:2008  till:2011 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:[[Josef Pröll]]
  from:2011  till:2014 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text: [[Michael Spindelegger]]
  from:2014  till:2017 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text: [[Reinhold Mitterlehner]]
  from:2017  till:end shift:($dx,$dy)     color:ÖVP    text: [[Sebastian Kurz]]
  from:2021  till:end shift:($dx,$dy)     color:ÖVP    text: [[Karl Nehammer]]
  bar:Govern. color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:7

  from:1945  till:1946 shift:($dx,-2)     color:SPÖ    text:Renner
  from:1946  till:1949 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Figl I
  from:1949  till:1952 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Figl II
  from:1952  till:1953 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Figl III
  from:1953  till:1956 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Raab I
  from:1956  till:1959 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Raab II
  from:1959  till:1960 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Raab III
  from:1960  till:1961 shift:($dx,-2)     color:ÖVP    text:Raab IV
  from:1961  till:1963 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Gorbach I
  from:1963  till:1964 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Gorbach II
  from:1964  till:1966 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Klaus I
  from:1966  till:1970 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Klaus II
  from:1970  till:1971 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Kreisky I
  from:1971  till:1975 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Kreisky II
  from:1975  till:1979 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Kreisky III
  from:1979  till:1983 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Kreisky IV
  from:1983  till:1986 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Sinowatz
  from:1986  till:1987 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Vranitzky I
  from:1987  till:1990 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Vranitzky II
  from:1990  till:1994 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Vranitzky III
  from:1994  till:1996 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Vranitzky IV
  from:1996  till:1997 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Vranitzky V
  from:1997  till:2000 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Klima
  from:2000  till:2003 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Schüssel I
  from:2003  till:2007 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Schüssel II
  from:2007  till:2008 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Gusenbauer
  from:2008  till:2016 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Faymann
  from:2016  till:2017 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:SPÖ    text:Kern
  from:2017  till:2019 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:ÖVP    text:Kurz I
  from:2019  till:2020 shift:($dx,$dy)    color:independent text:Bierlein
  from:2020  till:2021 shift:($dx,$dy)     color:ÖVP    text:Kurz II
  from:2021  till:2021 shift:($dx,$dy)     color:ÖVP    text:Schallenberg
  from:2021  till:end shift:($dx,$dy)     color:ÖVP    text:Nehammer
</timeline>