Franz Joseph I of Austria
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (Franz Joseph Karl; 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and monarch of many other states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from 2 December 1848 to his death. From 1 May 1850 to 24 August 1866 he was also President of the German Confederation. He was the longest-reigning Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, as well as the third-longest-reigning monarch of any country in European history, after Louis XIV of France and Johann II of Liechtenstein.
List of heads of government under Austrian Emperors
Franz Joseph ruled over the Austrian Empire which had a Minister-President and later a Chairman of the Ministers' Conference as head of government. Due to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 both parts of Austria-Hungary received 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).