Federal Chancellery (Austria)

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AustriaAustria  Federal Chancellery
Austrian Authority
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State level Federation
Position of the authority Federal Ministry
founding 1742/1920
Headquarters Vienna 1 , Ballhausplatz 2
Authority management Sebastian Kurz , Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria
Budget volume EUR 414 million (2020)
Website www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at

The Federal Chancellery ( BKA ), occasionally just called Ballhausplatz in political journalism , is the Federal Ministry headed by the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria . The official seat of the head of government is in the 1st district of Vienna , Inner City , at Ballhausplatz  2.

history

The Federal Chancellery in Vienna; Löwelstrasse on the left side, Ballhausplatz in front of the main front, Bruno-Kreisky-Gasse on the right side

The Federal Chancellery is in the immediate vicinity next to the Vienna Hofburg , the former winter residence of the Emperors of Austria and their predecessors. There are two parts of the Hofburg opposite on Ballhausplatz: the narrow side of the Leopoldine wing , where the entrance to the President's office has been located since 1946 , and the Amalienburg , where the last emperor, Charles I , lived alternately with other residences.

The building was built from 1717 to 1719 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt as a secret court chancellery under Imperial Vice Chancellor Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim . Here Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz officiated from 1753 to 1792 as house, court and state chancellor for Maria Theresa , Joseph II. And Leopold II. (House meant the House of Habsburg-Lothringen , the ruling dynasty , court referred to the Kaiserhof, the household of the immediate monarch family. 1809–1848, Prince Metternich , from 1821 as House, Court and State Chancellor, was responsible for the foreign policy of the Austrian Empire . The “Ballhausplatz” was therefore the venue for the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15.

The foreign ministers of Austria and Austria-Hungary held office here until November 11, 1918, when Charles I renounced any share in state affairs ; all of them were aristocrats . After 1867 the department was designated as the kuk Ministry of the Imperial and Royal House and Foreign Affairs. Since the dual monarchy had no actual head of government, the foreign minister also acted as chairman of the joint council of ministers, in which the three imperial and royal ministers responsible for the entire monarchy had to clarify with the prime ministers of Cisleithania and Transleithania mainly foreign policy and joint military matters as well as both financing. The most serious decision was to propose a declaration of war on Serbia to the emperor and king in 1914 , which resulted in the First World War in just a few days .

On October 30, 1918, German Austria, defined as a republic since November 12, 1918, elected its first state government . In the days that followed, she took over the German-Austrian agendas of all kuk and kk ministries. The Austrian heads of government held office from November 12, 1918 to 1923 in the former Imperial and Royal Council of Ministers Presidium at Herrengasse  7; The Republican Foreign Office was located on Ballhausplatz.

With the Federal Constitution in the autumn of 1920, the functional titles that are still valid today (e.g. Federal Chancellor and Federal Minister) were established. From 1920 to 1938 and 1945/46, today's Federal Chancellery housed the Federal President and the Foreign Ministry, and since 1923 also the Federal Chancellor , who was often foreign minister at the same time. On July 25, 1934, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss , who had ruled dictatorially since 1933, was murdered in the Federal Chancellery during a Nazi coup attempt .

On March 13, 1938, Austria was "attached" to the German Reich without a referendum or parliamentary vote . Federal President Wilhelm Miklas previously resigned. The National Socialist Seyss-Inquart , appointed by him as Federal Chancellor, served here from March 15, 1938 to April 30, 1939 as Reich Governor and Head of the Austrian Provincial Government ; then this body was dissolved by Hitler . The Reichsstatthalter responsible for the Reichsgau Vienna continued to serve here until 1945, usually referred to as the Gauleiter after his party function . In mid-April 1945 Vienna was conquered by the Red Army and the Nazi regime came to an end here.

The Renner state government was formed on April 27, 1945, and with the knowledge of the Soviet occupying power it took possession of the building of the Federal Chancellery (which had been badly damaged by bombs) for the republic. From September 1945 to July 1955, the city center was controlled by a different one of the four occupying powers every month. The Federal President has been in office in the opposite wing of the Hofburg since 1946.

tasks

The Federal Chancellery is the office apparatus of the Federal Chancellor; it oversees his constitutional functions. In this sense, his employees, under the direction of the Federal Chancellor, coordinate the general government policy and the information activities of the Federal Government.

The Federal Chancellery is responsible for:

  • Matters of general government policy, including the coordination of the entire federal administration, insofar as it does not fall within the scope of another federal ministry.
    • This also includes in particular:
    • Preparation of general government policy.
    • Working towards maintaining the uniformity of general government policy and uniform cooperation between the federal ministries in all political matters.
    • Working towards uniform cooperation between the federal and state governments.
    • Fundamental matters of Austria's membership in the European Union; Matters of the European Council including the coordination of the relevant preparatory measures, coordination in matters of the European Union as well as in matters of the European Council. Issuing instructions to the committees of permanent representatives (I, II) in agreement with the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs.
    • Legal matters of European integration, in particular working towards the timely and complete implementation of the directives of the European Union.
    • Economic coordination, including the coordination of the measures to implement the economic policy decisions of the European Council and the Euro Summit.
    • Coordination of fundamental questions of the European budget including the multiannual financial framework, summarizing the issues of structural policy.
    • Coordination in matters of comprehensive national defense.
    • Coordination of the National Security Council.
    • Right to information for the Federal Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor at the Army Intelligence Office, the Abwehramt and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism
    • Event-related coordination of domestic measures to deal with supra-regional or international crises or disasters.
    • Coordination in matters of telecommunications, information technology and media.
    • Strategic network and information security matters.
    • Affairs of an alternate federal data center
  • Information activities of the federal government.
    • This also includes in particular:
    • Government information matters; Informing the public about the work of the government.
    • Affairs of the spokesman for the Federal Government with the task of informing citizens and the media about the work of the Federal Government by presenting and explaining its activities, projects and goals. This includes, in particular, holding press conferences, interviews and background discussions on political issues, issuing joint press releases, providing information on media inquiries and coordinating the press spokespersons of the federal ministries, as well as controlling and coordinating the tasks of the Federal Press Service.
    • Press service with the exception of press attachés; Link service to the general information media of the press, radio and television, as well as audiovisual reporting.
    • Matters of Wiener Zeitung GmbH; Organizational and personnel matters of the Office of the Austrian State Printing Office.
  • State Constitutional Affairs.
    • Matters of the Federal Constitution with the exception of the financial constitution and the elections, popular initiatives, referendums and referendums provided for in the Federal Constitution; constitutional affairs of state organization; Carrying out the constitutional conduct of federal government.
    • Matters of constitutional jurisdiction; Matters of administrative jurisdiction with the exception of organizational matters and the matters of the Federal Finance Court; Representation of the Republic of Austria before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
    • Matters of fundamental and civil rights.
    • Affairs of the ethnic groups.
    • Constitutional matters of the permanent neutrality of Austria.
    • Matters of state emblems, insofar as they do not fall under the jurisdiction of another federal ministry.
    • General matters of official and executive liability.
    • Affairs of the state constitutions.
    • General affairs of state legislation.
  • Personnel matters of the highest executive bodies with the exception of the Federal President.
  • General salary matters as well as personnel information and reporting, without prejudice to the leading responsibility of the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport.
  • General affairs of state administration, insofar as they do not fall within the scope of another federal ministry.
    • This also includes in particular:
    • General matters relating to the legal system, legislation and the legal language, including maintaining the uniformity of federal ministries' preparatory work for federal legislation; Legal Clearing Matters.
    • General organizational and procedural matters of the administrative authorities, offices and other institutions that perform state administration tasks.
    • General administrative law matters, including administrative criminal law and administrative enforcement law.
    • Announcement of the federal government.
    • Matters relating to the establishment and organization of the federal ministries
    • general internal audit matters;
    • General matters relating to registries, government libraries and statistics.
  • Summarizing treatment and coordination in matters that affect the sphere of activity of two or more federal ministries
  • Matters of Austrian state awards and titles, insofar as they do not fall within the sphere of activity of the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, as well as matters of domestic ceremonial.
  • Management of the chancellery business of the Federal Government and other collegial bodies in which the Federal Chancellor presides.
  • Radio and television matters, insofar as they do not fall under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (apparently errors in the amendment, the technical matters now belong to the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism) ; other media matters with the exception of judicial media law, coordination of the information society.
  • Party law matters; Party and party academy funding.
  • Matters of information on issues relating to the common European currency.
  • Affairs of the Archives.
    • This includes, in particular, the management of the Austrian State Archives.
  • Matters of cult.
  • Affairs of church foundations and funds.
  • Coordination in matters of women's and gender equality policy.
  • Coordination in matters of gender mainstreaming.
  • Matters of equality for women in the labor market; Matters of the Equal Treatment Commission, the Federal Equal Treatment Commission and the Interministerial Working Group on Equal Treatment Issues.
  • Equality Advocacy Affairs.
  • Matters of integration.
    • This also includes in particular:
    • Matters of social integration and the coexistence of people with and without a migration background .
    • Coordination of general integration policy.
    • Advisory councils and expert groups in matters of integration.
    • Funding in the field of integration including foundations and funds.

organization

The Federal Chancellery is structured as follows.

  • Chancellor
    • Cabinet of the Federal Chancellor
    • Media Office
    • THINK AUSTRIA (staff unit for strategy, analysis and planning)
  • Federal Minister for the EU and the Constitution
    • Cabinet of the Federal Minister
  • Federal Minister for Women and Integration
    • Cabinet of the Federal Minister
  • Secretary General in the Federal Chancellery
    • Secretary General's Office
    • Internal revision
    • Section I: Presidium
      • Group I / A: minutes, events and public relations
        • Department I / 1: Protocol and Event Management
          • Service staff
          • Section I / 1 / a: Awards
          • Section I / 1 / b: Event service
          • Unit I / 1 / c: Visitor management
          • Unit I / 1 / d: Official visits and travel organization
        • Department I / 11: Media support and European communication
          • Unit I / 11 / a: Media Organization
          • Unit I / 11 / b: European communication and public relations
        • Department I / 12: Digital Communication
          • Unit I / 12 / a: Social Media
          • Section I / 12 / b: Websites of the Federal Chancellery
          • Unit I / 12 / c: Graphics and Corporate Design
          • Section I / 12 / d: Photo and video service
        • Department I / 13: Media Analysis
          • Section I / 13 / a: Media monitoring and documentation (print media)
          • Section I / 13 / b: Media monitoring, news management (electronic media)
          • Unit I / 13 / c: Editing
        • Department I / 14: Citizen Service
          • Unit I / 14 / a: Written citizen inquiries
          • Unit I / 14 / b: Service telephone
      • Group I / B: Management and Service
        • Team assistance of the Cabinets, the General Secretariat and Section I.
        • Department I / 2: Personnel and Organizational Management
          • Unit I / 2 / a: Personnel Management
          • Unit I / 2 / b: Organizational Management
            • Porters
            • mail department
            • Driver pool
          • Unit I / 2 / c: Personnel Development
        • Department I / 3: Financial Matters
        • Department I / 4: Information initiatives, media planning and budget
        • Department I / 5: Procurement, Infrastructure, Projects
          • Section I / 5 / a: Procurement and Procurement Controlling
            • Material management
          • Unit I / 5 / b: Building Management and Infrastructure
            • workshops
            • Infrastructural building management
            • Cleaning staff
          • Unit I / 5 / c: Project Management
        • Department I / 6: Legal and Procurement Matters
      • Group I / C: IT personnel management; ICT security; ICT infrastructure
        • Department I / 7: IT personnel management
        • Department I / 8: Cyber ​​Security, GOVCERT, NIS Office and ZAS
          • Office for strategic network and information system security
          • Central fallback system
        • Department I / 9: ICT Infrastructure
          • Technical infrastructure Vienna
          • Network and telecommunications
        • Division I / 10: Office of the Information Security Commission
      • Group I / D: Central Services
        • Department I / 15: Innovation Management
        • Department I / 16: Council of Ministers Service
        • Compliance management
        • Department I / 17: Funding Control
          • Funding Control Unit UG 10
        • Data protection officer
      • Section II: Integration, Cultural Office and Ethnic Groups
        • Department II / 1: Basic matters of integration
        • Department II / 2: Integration coordination
          • Section II / 2 / a: Knowledge management and integration monitoring
          • Section II / 2 / b: Legal Matters of Integration
          • Section II / 2 / c: Strategic coordination of the integration of refugees and third-country nationals
        • Department II / 3: Funding Integration
          • Section II / 3 / a: European integration promotion
          • Section II / 3 / b: Language Promotion Controlling, Monitoring, Evaluation and Development
        • Department II / 4: Cultural Office
        • Department II / 5: Ethnic Group Matters
      • Section III: Women's Affairs and Equality
        • Department III / 1: Gender equality policy issues
        • Department III / 2: Public Relations, Administrative Management, Women's Project Funding
        • Department III / 3: Equal treatment in the private sector and in the federal service
        • Department III / 4: Violence Prevention and Legistics Specific to Women
        • Department III / 5: Women's service, budget and parliament coordination
        • Department III / 6: Socio-economic equality, international and EU affairs
      • Section IV: EU and policy issues
        • Team assistance of Section IV
        • Task force coordination and monitoring
        • European and International Affairs Office
        • Group IV / A: EU
          • Division IV / 1: Institutional Affairs of the European Union
            • Unit IV / 1 / a: Institutional Affairs of the EU
            • Unit IV / 1 / b: EU policy issues
          • Department IV / 2: EU coordination (European Council, General Affairs Council, Coreper II, information management, external relations)
            • Unit IV / 2 / a: European Council and Euro Summit, Third Country Meetings, General Affairs Council (RAA)
            • Unit IV / 2 / b: Coordination of the Permanent Representatives Committee II (Coreper II)
            • Unit IV / 2 / c: Information Management External Relations
            • Unit IV / 2 / d: External Aspects of Union Policies, Enlargement, Neighborhood Policy
          • Department IV / 3: Finance, EU Budget and Agriculture
            • Unit IV / 3 / a: Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN), EU budget issues, financial and monetary issues
            • Unit IV / 3 / b: Agricultural Policy, Agrarian Reform and Budget Management
            • Unit IV / 3 / c: Summary treatment of regional and structural policy matters
          • Department IV / 4: Environment, Climate, Transport, Coreper I
            • Unit IV / 4 / a: Environmental issues and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
            • Unit IV / 4 / b: Coordination regarding the Committee of Permanent Representatives I (Coreper I)
        • Group IV / B: Questions of principle
          • Department IV / 5: Economy, Labor Market and Energy
            • Unit IV / 5 / a: Budget Matters
            • Unit IV / 5 / b: Energy and nuclear issues
            • Unit IV / 5 / c: Export, location and company
          • Department IV / 6: Security Policy
            • Unit IV / 6 / a: Foreign Policy Aspects of Security Policy
          • Department IV / 7: Science and Research, Technology, Education, Social Affairs and Health
            • Office of the Bioethics Commission
          • Department IV / 8: Specialist information and documentation
            • Office of Department IV / 8
      • Section V: Constitutional Service
        • Team assistance of Section V.
        • Department V / 1: Constitutional Legislation and Administrative Procedures
        • Department V / 2: General Legistics, Legal Information, State Affairs, Administrative Organization Law
          • Section V / 2 / a: Announcements and Legal Information (RIS)
          • Section V / 2 / b: State affairs
        • Department V / 3: Media, Information Society; Party law, party and party academy funding
          • Section V / 3 / a: Office of the Independent Party Transparency Senate
          • Unit V / 3 / b: Information Society
        • Department V / 4: Commercial Law Matters
        • Department V / 5: Social affairs, justice and home affairs and other administrative matters
          • Unit V / 5 / a: Home Affairs, Justice
          • Unit V / 5 / b: Social
        • Department V / 6: EU procedures
          • Unit V / 6 / a: Infringement proceedings and directives implementation
        • Department V / 7: European and international law, human rights protection
          • Unit V / 7 / a: International human rights protection, ECHR complaints and other matters

Business areas

The Federal Chancellery has the following subordinate offices.

Employees of the Federal Chancellery also work at the Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU in Brussels.

The following outsourced institutions are assigned to the department:

Chancellor

See also

literature

  • Andrea Brait: The Federal Chancellery in Vienna. An Austrian place of memory . Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8300-4855-8 .

Web links

Commons : Federal Chancellery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Finance Act 2020. (PDF) Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), p. 82 , accessed on June 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Annex to § 2 BMG 1986 , part 2, A. Federal Chancellery, in the version January 29, 2020; changed with the 2020 amendment to the Federal Ministries Act, Federal Law Gazette I No. 8/2020 .
  3. ↑ Business division of the Federal Chancellery from March 1, 2020. Retrieved on March 15, 2020 .
  4. ^ Organization of the Federal Chancellery. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '30.3 "  N , 16 ° 21' 49.9"  E