Landeshauptmann (literally "country captain" or "state captain") is the German title of the governor of a state of Austria or of the Italian province of Bolzano (South Tyrol). Since Austria is a federal republic according to the constitutional framework of Austrian politics, Austrias nine provinces are customarily referred to as States of Austria or Bundesländer, singular Bundesland. ... Bolzano is The name of the capital of South Tyrol (Trentino-Upper Adige, Italy), see Bolzano-Bozen The airport of this city, see Bolzano (airport) A synonym for the Italian province South Tyrol (Trentino-Upper Adige), see South Tyrol Short for the Bolzano project, a refuge in Italy for divorced... South Tyrol (German Autonome Provinz Bozen-Südtirol, Italian Provincia autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige, Ladin Provinzia autonóma de Bulsan-Südtirol) is an autonomous province of Italy. ...
Whether female Landeshauptmänner are to be called Landeshauptfrau or Landeshauptmann, is still the subject of public debate.
This question [1] first arose with the assumption of office by Waltraud Klasnic (from the conservative ÃVP) in Styria on the 23 January 1996, who preferred to be addressed as Frau Klasnic (Mrs.
For example, the same question also arises for the office designation Bezirkshauptmann (chief administrator of a non-municipal district in Austria), military rank Hauptmann (captain) and Feuerwehrmann (firefighter).Sometimes, according to Austrian custom, the wife of a male incumbent is addressed as Frau Landeshauptmann.
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