Presidential office

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Leopoldine wing of the Hofburg

The presidential office is the administrative office ( auxiliary apparatus ) set up to support the Austrian Federal President . It has been housed in the Leopoldine wing of the Vienna Hofburg since October 1946 . The name Presidential Chancellery is also synonymous with the official seat of the Federal President located there.

The firm is divided into different "groups": group European and International Affairs, Protocol and organization , group legal, social and administrative matters , Group domestic and adjutant of the President . A resolution by the Federal President ( Federal Law Gazette II No. 87/2008 ) regulates the rules of procedure of the presidential chancellery .

Alexander Van der Bellen , who has been Federal President since 2017

The presidential chancellery is headed by the cabinet director, in his absence the cabinet vice director. The cabinet director reports directly to the Federal President. Outstanding among the cabinet directors was Wilhelm Klastersky , after whom an alley in Vienna-Favoriten was named .

literature

  • Richard Kurdiovsky (Ed.): The Austrian Presidential Chancellery in the Vienna Hofburg. With contributions by Herbert Karner, Richard Kurdiovsky, Marcus Langer, Hellmut Lorenz, Anna Mader, Florian Steininger and Manuel Weinberger; Photographs by Manfred Seidl. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85033-161-6 .
  • Wolfgang Loibl: The Austrian Presidential Chancellery. In: Alois Mock , Herbert Schambeck (Hrsg.): Responsibility in our time. Festschrift for Rudolf Kirchschläger. Verlag Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7046-0192-6 , pp. 157-165.
  • Bernhard Raschauer : Art. 67a B-VG. In: Karl Korinek , Michael Holoubek (Eds.): Austrian Federal Constitutional Law. Text collection and commentary. Loose-leaf edition. Springer, Vienna / New York 1999 ff, ISBN 3-211-83222-X , 8th delivery 2007.
  • Stefan Frank: Art 67a B-VG. In: Heinz Peter Rill , Heinz Schäffer (Ed.): Federal Constitutional Law. Comment. Loose-leaf edition. Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2001 ff., ISBN 3-7046-2000-9 , 6th delivery 2010.
  • The Presidential Chancellery, the official seat of the Austrian Federal President in the Vienna Hofburg. Publishing house of the Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1961.
  • The Presidential Chancellery, the official seat of the Austrian Federal President in the Vienna Hofburg. Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1958.
  • Alexander Purger: In the realm of the purple pineapple. The time of government formation is the time of the Hofburg. The Leopoldine wing of the Vienna Hofburg is the center of Austrian politics. And that for almost 350 years. In: date . Issue 12/2008, 14-19 ( online. ).

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '27.7 "  N , 16 ° 21' 50.8"  E