This is a list of heads of government under Austrian emperors. State chancellors of the Archduchy of Austria (1527–1804) From 1664/69 the Privy Conference (Geheime Konferenz), a committee of the Imperial Privy Council (Geheimer Rat), provided advice to Emperor Leopold I whereby the Austrian court chancellor, responsible for the Habsburg 'Hereditary Lands', served as rapporteur and thereby gained increasing influence. The Habsburg diplomatic service was re-organised, when Emperor Charles VI by resolution of 1720 declared Court Chancellor Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf responsible for foreign policy issues. Upon Sinzendorf's death in February 1742, Archduchess Maria Theresa finally separated the central Habsburg State Chancellery responsible of Foreign Affairs from the domestic Austrian Court Chancellery. 1527 Leonhard Freiherr von Harrach 1528–1539 Bernhard von Cles 1539–1544 Dr. Georg Gienger 1544–1558 Dr. Jakob Jonas 1558–1563 Dr. Georg Sigmund Seid 1563–1577 Dr. Johann Baptist Weber 1577–1587 Dr. Sigmund Viehäuser 1587–1594 Dr. Jacob Kurz von Senftenau 1594–1597 Johann Wolf Freymann von Oberhausen 1597–1606 Dr. Rudolf Coradutz 1606–1612 Leopold Freiherr von Stralendorf 1612–1620 Hans Ludwig von Ulm 1620–1637 Johann Baptist Verda von Verdenberg 1637–1656 Johann Mathias Prücklmayer 1656–1665 Hans Joachim Sinzendorf 1667–1683 Johann Paul Hocher von Hohengran 1683–1693 Theodor von Strattman 1694–1705 Julius Friedrich Bucellini 1705–1715 Johann Friedrich von Seilern Francis I (1804–1835) Ferdinand I (1835–1848) Franz Joseph I (1848–1916) This is a list of heads of government under Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Franz Joseph was born on 18 August 1830 and died on 21 November 1916, his imperial reign lasted from 2 December 1848 to 21 November 1916. His predecessor was Ferdinand I & V and his successor was Charles I & IV. Franz Joseph ruled over the Austrian Empire which had a minister-president and later a chairman of the Ministers' Conference as head of government. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 the joint monarchy of Austria-Hungary had their own heads of government: the minister-president of Cisleithania for Cisleithania (the Austrian part of the empire) and the prime minister of the Kingdom of Hungary for Transleithania (the Hungarian part of the empire). One minister-president of the Austrian Empire, six chairmen of the Ministers' Conference of the Austrian Empire, twenty-two ministers-president of Cisleithania and fourteen prime ministers of the Kingdom of Hungary have served under the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. Austrian Empire Chairmen of the Ministers' Council for Common Affairs Cisleithania Transleithania Charles I & IV (1916–1918) This is a list of heads