Federal Ministry for Science and Transport

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Federal Ministry for Science and Transport

Former Austrian authority
BMWVK
BMWV
State level Federation
Position of the authority Supreme federal authority
founding 12.3.1996 (from BMWFK and BMöWV )
Dissolved 1.4.2000 (in BMBWK and BMVIT )
Headquarters Vienna 3 , Radetzkystraße 2
Authority management Rudolf Scholten  (1996–1997)
Caspar Eine (1997–2000)
Michael Schmid  (2000)

The Federal Ministry for Science and Transport ( BMWV for short ), until 1997 the Federal Ministry for Science, Transport and Art ( BMWVK ) was the Austrian federal administration for matters of scientific research and academic education , initially also the museums and monument protection , as well as transportation .

The ministry was created in 1996 in the Vranitzky V government from the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Art  (BMWFK) and the Federal Ministry for Public Economy and Transport  (BMÖWV).
In 2000, when the Schüssel I government took office , it was  restructured into the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture  (BMBWK) and the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT).

With this ministry, the traditionally close connection between the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Economy (or various nationalized ministries), which dates back to the imperial era, was finally ended.

Federal Minister

Main articles: Science Minister of the Republic of Austria , Transport Minister of the Republic of Austria

At the time this ministry was in existence, federal ministers were:

After two months of the conservative government, on April 1, 2000, the ministry was dissolved and Elisabeth Gehrer - Minister of Education since 1995 - took over the science agendas, Schmid headed the newly created Ministry of Infrastructure for Transport with Innovation and Technology.

Competencies and measures

In the course of the privatization measures of the 1990s, a separate ministry for public works became obsolete, the general ministry for all economic affairs took over the agendas of the public hand as a property developer, and the remaining transport policy was merged with science policy . The following year, Klima submitted the art agendas directly to the Federal Chancellery .

During the time of the ministry, in particular, the integration of the common transport policy, such as the continuation of the transit ecopoint system , as well as pilot projects for multi-phase driver training , which occurred after Austria joined the EU on January 1, 1995 and joined the Schengen Agreement on April 28, 1995 to the driver's license .

In terms of science policy, the implementation of the Bologna Process was the main agenda (Caspar Eine signed the Bologna Declaration of June 19, 1999 for Austria); the first measures were, for example, the 1999 amendment to the University Studies Act .

Historical development

Period Ministry of Transport Ministry of Science
1896 Kk Ministry of Railways  
1918 State Office for Transport
1920 Federal Ministry of Transport
1923-1938 Federal Ministry of Trade and Transport
Trade affairs from the Federal Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Industry and Buildings
1945 State Office for Industry, Commerce, Trade and Transport
1945-1949 Federal Ministry for Economic Transport
as Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction
1949-1956 Federal Ministry of Transport and Nationalized Enterprises
Public Economy from the Federal Ministry of Trade and Reconstruction
1956-1966 Federal Ministry for Transport and Electricity
Economy and energy supply exchanged with Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction
1966-1970 Federal Ministry for traffic and nationalized enterprises
Public economy from the Federal Ministry for trade and reconstruction , energy supply in the Federal Ministry for buildings and technology
1970-1984 Federal Ministry of Transport
Public Economy to the Federal Ministry of Buildings and Technology
Federal Ministry of Science and Research
newly established
1985-1987 Federal Ministry for Public Economy and Transport
Public Economy from the Federal Ministry for Buildings and Technology
1995-1996 Federal Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts
Art Affairs from the Federal Ministry for Education and Cultural Affairs
1996-1997 Federal Ministry for Science, Transport and Art
Public Economy to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
1997-2000 Federal Ministry for Science and Transport
Art Affairs to the Federal Chancellery
from 2000 Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology logo small.svg
Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
BM BWK Federal Ministry for Education Science and Culture small.svg
Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture

Later exercise of responsibilities

Elisabeth Gehrer was Minister of Science of the Schüssel era as Federal Minister for Education, Science and Culture . In 2007 the Federal Ministry of Science and Research was re-established with the socialist government of Gusenbauer as a pure science and university ministry - in the form that Bruno Kreisky had conceived in early 1970 . Today the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research is responsible for these agendas.
The transport agendas came in 2000 to the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology , a modern infrastructure ministry that is now called the
Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology .
The Art Section came directly to the Federal Chancellery on Ballhausplatz in 1997 ( Federal Museums 1998, Amendment of the Monument Protection Act 2000) and was again at the Ministry of Education, the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture , from 2007 . Today the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport is responsible
for art issues.

Individual evidence

  1. Art. 91 N of the Federal Law, Federal Law Gazette No. 201/1996
  2. a b c Education and Science Ministers since 1945 at bmukk.gv.at
  3. cf. for example: The transport, transit and European policy of Austria in comparison with Switzerland. Presentation by Federal Minister Dr. Caspar Eine, Vienna (web document pdf on the 63rd annual general meeting and transport forum of LITRA ( memento of October 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Bern, October 7, 1999, accessed July 4, 2012)
  4. The history of the ecopoint system. Appendices I and II from the "Report of the European Commission to the Council on Road Goods Transit through Austria" of December 21, 2000 (partially supplemented) ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Office of the Salzburg Provincial Government (web document pdf, salzburg.gv.at; 101 kB); Ecopoints (until 2003) , Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Department II / Infra5 - International Networks and General Transport Planning (GVP-Ö)
  5. Multi-phase driver training . alles-fuehrerschein.at
  6. ^ First report on the status of the implementation of the Bologna Declaration in Austria 2001 , BMBWK - Dept. VII / D / 5 (pdf; 100 kB);
    Overview: The Bologna Process in Austria , both bmwf.gv.at
  7. ^ Federal Chancellery, Art Section , registered by Georg Franz on October 5th, 2005, www.theaterblick.com, accessed July 3, 2012
  8. Welcome to the information pages of the arts section! , bmukk.gv.at (accessed 6/2012)