Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction
Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction (BMHW) was the longstanding name of the Austrian Ministry of Economic Affairs between 1945 and 1966.
reconstruction
The reconstruction after the Second World War was one of the main tasks in the countries of Central Europe and was in Austria until the beginning of the 1960s complete because the country during the occupation period and until the treaty did not have full sovereignty (1955).
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The policy of the economic department was shaped by the long-time Minister of Commerce Fritz Bock , who had worked on the agendas for four years as State Secretary under Julius Raab before taking up his ministerial office (1956 to 1968) . An essential means for the reconstruction was the residential house reconstruction fund, especially for Vienna , where half of the buildings were partially destroyed. A second important area of responsibility was the construction of the motorway , which in view of the 340,000 unemployed also served as an important job creation program. It had been started under Hitler , but got stuck in the area of Upper Austria (industrial city Linz ) due to the war .
"German property"
The third main topic of the ministry was " German property ", which was under strict Russian control in the Soviet occupation zone in Vienna and Lower Austria (see USIA ) and suffered from bleeding from evacuation and high reparations . For the Soviets, who, like the other three great powers, released the country in 1955, at that time a 10% German stake was enough to requisition a company as “German property”. In western Austria this problem could be settled through nationalization - in agreement between the ÖVP and SPÖ with the western occupying powers.
Nevertheless, it took well into the seventies for this entire, politically vital area to be wound up. In 1978 the last public administration of a company was closed. There were some bizarre things , for example with the large estates of the Hanover royal family , which had been in exile in Austria since the German War in 1866. They passed (understandably) "German property" in 1945 to the Soviets and finally to the then Greek queen.
division
The Ministry for “Trade and Reconstruction” was finally renamed the Federal Ministry for Trade, Commerce and Industry in 1966 - the year the grand coalition disintegrated . The building industry , which was increasingly able to concentrate on new buildings , became a separate ministry as the “ Federal Ministry for Buildings and Technology ” and existed until 1987.
The term " reconstruction " has disappeared from the political vocabulary today, but some agendas still survive in the form of the ERP credits ("Affairs of the reconstruction of the buildings destroyed by the events of the war" are, curiously, still in the Federal Ministries Act as the tasks of the Federal Ministry of Economics , Youth and family listed).
The two ministries themselves were reunited in 1987 in what was now the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs , which from 2000 - the Austrian "Wende" under Wolfgang Schüssel - and continued under the Gusenbauer coalition government was called "Federal Ministry for Economics and Labor", but in 2000 it was mainly the Handed over matters of road construction to the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology . Today, the Federal Ministry for Digitization and Business Location is responsible for economic issues, and the Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism is responsible for energy and tourism .
literature
- Walter Kleindel: The Chronicle of Austria . 4th revised and updated edition. Chronik-Verlag, Gütersloh et al. 1994, ISBN 3-570-14400-3 .
- Brockhaus . 1959–1962 (5 volumes and atlas).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pioneer of integration: Fritz Bock . alt-hietzinger.at