In
Austrian politics
, the
Federal Chancellery
(
German
:
Bundeskanzleramt
,
lit.
'federal chancellery', abbreviated
BKA
; historically also
Hofkanzlei
and
Staatskanzlei
) is the
ministry
led by the
chancellor
.
Since the establishment of the
First Austrian Republic
in 1918, the Chancellery building has served as the venue for the sessions of the Austrian
cabinet
.
It is located on the
Ballhausplatz
in the
centre
of
Vienna
, vis-a-vis the
Hofburg Imperial Palace
. Like
Downing Street
,
Quai d'Orsay
or ? formerly ?
Wilhelmstrasse
, the address has become a
synecdoche
for governmental power.
Responsibilities
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The chancellery's primary function is to align the
policies
and
public relations
of the
Federal Government
. It represents the
executive
on
federal level
in matters of the
Constitution of Austria
and in
international courts
.
It is also in charge of
women's rights
and
gender equality
,
civil service
,
public administration
and
management
, exercised by Ines Stilling in the rank of a Federal Minister and member of the Austrian cabinet.
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It is further responsible for
national security
? if not in the
Federal Ministry of the Interior
's area of competence ?,
information privacy
and
information society
,
mass media
affairs,
news conferences
and
photojournalism
,
OECD
relations,
bioethics
, and
minority rights
.
History
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Next to Hofburg Palace, residence of the
Holy Roman Emperors
and
Habsburg Monarchs
, the
Baroque
chancellery building designed by the Genoese architect
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt
for chancellor
Friedrich Karl von Schonborn
was inaugurated in 1719 as
Geheime Hofkanzlei
, concerned with the
foreign policy
of Emperor
Charles VI
. From 1753 until 1792 Prince
Wenzel Anton of Kaunitz-Rietberg
resided here as State Chancellor of Empress
Maria Theresa
, Emperor
Joseph II
and Emperor
Leopold II
. In the 1760s, Kaunitz had the building significantly enlarged according to plans by
Nicolo Pacassi
. While
Napoleon
's troops occupied Vienna, Prince
Klemens von Metternich
was appointed Foreign Minister of the
Austrian Empire
in 1809 and moved into the chancellery building with his family to live here during the winter months. In 1814/15 his residence served as venue of the
Vienna Congress
. After the
1848 revolutions
, Minister-President
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg
took his seat at the chancellery and made it the centre of his rule.
Until the dissolution of the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
in 1918, the building was the seat of the
k.u.k.
Minister of
Foreign Affairs
, from 1867 also
Chairmen of the Ministers' Council for Common Affairs
arbitrating between the
Cisleithanian
(Austrian) and
Transleithanian
(Hungarian) minister-presidents. During the
July Crisis
of 1914, the
declaration of war
against
Serbia
was prepared here at the behest of Minister
Count Leopold Berchtold
. On 30 October 1918 the German-speaking deputies of the Cisleithanian
Imperial Council
convened as a provisional National Assembly of
German Austria
to elect a
Staatsrat
government headed by Chancellor
Karl Renner
. According to the 1920 Constitution of Austria (
Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz
, B-VG) authored by
Hans Kelsen
, the office of the Austrian chancellor was established, with his residence on Ballhausplatz. Several chancellors of the
Austrian First Republic
also served as Foreign Ministers, a separate
Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
was not established until 1959 under Minister
Bruno Kreisky
. Until 1946 the building also housed the office of the
Austrian Federal President
.
On 25 July 1934 Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss
was shot here by
Nazi
insurgents during the
July Putsch
. Upon the Austrian
Anschluss
to
Nazi Germany
and the resignation of President
Wilhelm Miklas
on 13 March 1938,
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
resided on Ballhausplatz as a
Reichsstatthalter
and head of the
Ostmark
state government, which was abolished by order of
Adolf Hitler
on 30 April 1939. Until the end of
World War II
, the building was used as the seat of the local
Reichsgau Wien
administration under
Josef Burckel
and
Baldur von Schirach
. Heavily damaged by
Allied bombing
, the chancellery building was recaptured by the provisional Austrian state government under Karl Renner with consent of the
Soviet
military authority in
Allied-occupied Austria
on 27 April 1945. Upon the
Austrian legislative election of 1945
, the
National Council
parliament elected
Leopold Figl
the first post-war chancellor on December 20. The chancellery building was restored until 1950.
Organization
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The organization has changed by every governing period in Austria since 1970. The Chancellor
Sebastian Kurz
is currently (2020:
Second Kurz government
) assisted by two
Chancellary ministers
within the Federal Chancellery, managing the agency's presently (2020) six departments (
Sektionen
) as follows:
- I: Presidium (secretary general
Bernd Brunner
)
- II: Integration, Culture and Minorities (Martin Klienl)
- III: Women's Affairs and Gender Mainstreaming (Jennifer Resch)
- IV: EU, International Affairs and Principal Questions (Barbara Kaudel-Jensen)
- V: Constitution (Albert Posch)
- VI: Family and Youth (Bernadett Humer)
See also
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Citations
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References
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- Adamovich, Ludwig (1947).
Grundriss des osterreichischen Verfassungsrechts
(4th ed.). Vienna: Springer.
ISBN
978-3-709-13505-1
.
- Berka, Walter (2016).
Verfassungsrecht
(6th ed.). Vienna: Osterreich Verlag.
ISBN
978-3-7046-7281-0
.
- Brauneder, Wilhelm (2009).
Osterreichische Verfassungsgeschichte
(11th ed.). Vienna: Manzsche Verlags- und Universitatsbuchhandlung.
ISBN
978-3-214-14876-8
.
- "Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz (B-VG) as last amended May 15, 2018 by BGBl. 22/2018"
. May 15, 2018
. Retrieved
September 28,
2018
.
- "Bundesministeriengesetz (BMinG) as last amended December 28, 2017 by BGBl. 164/2017"
. December 28, 2017
. Retrieved
September 28,
2018
.
- Hoke, Rudolf (1996).
Osterreichische und deutsche Rechtsgeschichte
(2nd ed.). Vienna: Bohlau Studienbucher.
ISBN
3-205-98179-0
.
- Ohlinger, Theo
(2007).
Verfassungsrecht
(7th ed.). Vienna: Facultas.
ISBN
978-3-708-90152-7
.
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