The city was governed by social democracy until 2010, and since 2010 a citizens' list of Franz Schneider has been in power.

In 1944 there was a large explosion in a factory that could be felt as far away as Wiener Neustadt and cost lives.

Shortly before the end of the war, prisoners in the work camps in Enzesfeld were still being murdered by the SS.

The NSDAP mayor of Enzesfeld Karl Gschiel flees to Carinthia and never returns.

Shortly after the war, his villa was set on fire by the population and burned down, it was finally demolished.