General Directorate for Public Security

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AustriaAustria  General Directorate for Public Safety (GDföS)
Austrian authority
Logo of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, to which the General Directorate for Public Security belongs
State level Federation
Position of the authority Organizational unit (Section II) of the Ministry of the Interior for the regulation of security administration
founding 1930 (at the Federal Chancellery )
Headquarters Vienna 1 , Herrengasse 7 (1010)
Authority management Franz Ruf
Website www.bmi.gv.at/…
New part of the interior ministry building on Minoritenplatz, in which the GDföS is located

The General Directorate for Public Security  ( GDföS ) is an organizational unit of the Ministry of the Interior in Austria , which is responsible for all matters relating to public security administration. It is headed by the Director General for Public Security, an official appointed by the Minister.

It is located in the new building of the Ministry of the Interior on Minoritenplatz in Vienna.

Legal basis

The existence of a General Directorate for Public Security is established under the Security Police Act  (SPG). Paragraph 6 (1) of the DDA designates “the organizational units of the Federal Ministry of the Interior that deal with security administration matters” as the General Directorate for Public Security .

The security administration consists of the procurement of the security police (maintenance of public calm , order and security as well as the first general duty of assistance), the passport and registration system, the aliens police, the monitoring of entry into and exit from the federal territory, the weapons, Munitions, guns and explosives as well as from the press and club and assembly matters.

tasks

The General Directorate for Public Security is responsible for coordinating security administration in Austria. As Section II of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, it reports directly to the Federal Minister and carries out all administrative tasks in the area of ​​public safety for him or passes these on to the groups and departments under its control. It can therefore be described as the highest police authority in Austria, which is also reflected in the classification of the General Director as an official of the legally qualified service, including the associated uniform and his own distinctions. The most important guard, reporting to the Director General for Public Security, is the entirety of the Austrian Federal Police .

Organizationally, the following areas of the Ministry of the Interior are subordinate to the General Management or the General Director:

history

The General Directorate for Public Safety was established as the highest security authority, initially in the Federal Chancellery , by decree of the Federal Chancellery (CoR, BKA / Pres, SR, Zl. 9.415 / 1930) of September 23, 1930 . At the beginning of April 1938, after the Nazi seizure of power , it was dissolved due to the decree of March 14, 1938 by the Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior , Heinrich Himmler . After the Second World War, Section I, the General Directorate, was located exclusively in the Ministry of the Interior until 1965, then Section II. In 1968 the police affairs - Federal Police , Federal Gendarmerie , Austrian State Police Service ( State Police ) were separated from the General Directorate for Public Security and became a new one Section II incorporated. The head of this section was the Vienna police chief Josef Holaubek . After he became General Inspector of the Security Authorities and State Gendarmerie Commands in 1969, Section II was merged with the General Directorate.

General Directors of the Second Republic

people

  • Franz Nagy de Somlyo (born January 20, 1896, † June 3, 1946), general director for public security in 1945; Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown.
  • Wilhelm Krechler abs. jur. (* May 28, 1891 in Zwentendorf) was Director General for Public Security from July 17, 1946 to December 31, 1956. He studied law and political science in Vienna and served as an officer in the First World War. On April 26, 1919, he joined the Vienna Police Department. From December 1, 1927, he worked in the General Directorate for Public Security, at that time in the Federal Chancellery, and on August 1, 1936, he was appointed head of the State Police Office. In March 1938 he was arrested by the Gestapo and later forced into retirement. After the end of the Nazi regime, Krechler became head of the Presidium of the State Office of the Interior and on July 17, 1946 he was appointed General Director for Public Security and appointed Head of Section.
  • Kurt Seidler (born June 2, 1903) was General Director for Public Security from January 1, 1957 to June 30, 1969. Seidler studied law in Vienna and began his professional career in 1927 at the office of the Lower Austrian provincial government after the court year. In 1933 he came to BH Korneuburg and from 1934 he worked at the Security Directorate for Lower Austria as a consultant for state police matters. After the Nazi seizure of power, he was arrested by the Gestapo on March 15, 1938. Shortly afterwards he was forced to retire and drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940 . After the end of the war he came to the Ministry of the Interior, where he worked in the administrative section. On January 1, 1956, he became head of this section and one year later General Director for Public Security. He was retired at the end of December 31, 1968 when he reached the age limit.
  • Oswald Peterlunger was Director General for Public Security from July 1st, 1969 to December 31st, 1975. After studying law and political science in Innsbruck and completing the court year, Peterlunger joined the BPD Innsbruck on January 22nd, 1934 as an aspirant of the higher police service. After several years of service with the state police department of the BPD Innsbruck, he was brought to the Federal Chancellery in 1937, where he worked in the General Directorate for Public Security. After the Nazi seizure of power on March 13, 1938, he was removed from service and arrested on October 6, 1938; Until November 25, 1938 he was in protective custody in Innsbruck. On February 1, 1939, he was released from civil service. However, the dismissal was changed to a retirement with the award of 75% of the normal rest enjoyment. After the end of the war he worked briefly at BH Reutte, after which he headed the state police at the Tyrol Security Directorate and later at the BPD Innsbruck. In March 1947 he was appointed deputy head of the state police department of the BMI. On September 2, 1947, he became the successor of Heinrich Dürmayer, who had been transferred to prison, as head of the Vienna State Police. From June 1, 1966, he headed the State Police Group in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. On January 1, 1967, he was appointed head of Section III and Section Head. On July 1, 1969, he succeeded Kurt Seidler as General Director for Public Security; he held this office until his retirement on December 31, 1975.
  • Robert Danzinger was General Director for Public Security from January 1, 1976 to October 14, 1990. From 1963 to 1966, Danzinger was Director of Security for Lower Austria. He died on October 14, 1990 of complications from a heart attack.
  • Michael Sika (Director General for Public Security 1991–1999)
  • Erik Buxbaum (General Director for Public Safety from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2008)
  • Herbert Anderl (General Director for Public Safety from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2012)
  • Konrad Kogler (General Director for Public Safety from January 1, 2013 to August 31, 2017)
  • Michaela Kardeis (Director General for Public Safety from September 1, 2017 to March 31, 2019)
  • After an interim tour by Reinhard Schnakl from April 1, 2019, Franz Ruf was introduced as the new General Director on June 18, 2020

Substitution differences in May 2019

On April 9, 2019, the position of the Director General was advertised again with the application deadline on May 10. Two applicants are said to have responded to the advertisement , one of them was Peter Goldgruber , the previous Secretary General in the Interior Department.

After the Ibiza affair became known on May 17, 2019 and the election of the National Council was proclaimed, Interior Minister Herbert Kickl ( FPÖ ) appointed Goldgruber as Director General for Public Security on May 20. In order to be able to exercise this function in the long term, however, the appointment must be certified by the Federal President , which Goldgruber did not see as a problem according to his own statement and he stated with regard to the current government crisis: "At that time there was no talk of turbulence at all".

After Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz sharply criticized Kickl's personnel decision and shortly afterwards Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen announced that he did not want to sign the appointment ("The head of state is following the long-standing state practice that no appointments are made to political positions in transition periods," the office explained Kickl countered shortly afterwards on his Facebook page that the personnel decision was not a surprise for Kurz, since Kickl had already informed him at the last Council of Ministers that there were two applicants “and Goldgruber could emerge as the most suitable”. According to Kickl, “the Chancellor had no problem with that”. In addition, he, Kickl, on Friday (probably meant: a few hours before the "Ibiza videos" were published) informed the Federal President by phone and "in the interests of full transparency of the decision-making process, sent him the entire file with all procedural steps and evaluations" .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Role model for role models" - Franz Ruf is Austria's top police officer. In: bmi.gv.at. July 1, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Section II (General Directorate for Public Security) - Head: General Director for Public Security Mag. Franz Ruf, MA. Website of Section II of the BMI in the version on July 1, 2020.
  3. ^ Lower Austria: State Police Director Konrad Kogler takes over. In: derStandard.at , August 31, 2017, accessed on August 31, 2017.
  4. ^ Franz Ruf presented as the new General Director for Public Security In: Wiener Zeitung , June 17, 2020, accessed on June 17, 2020.
  5. ↑ a b c d Kickl upgrades Goldgruber, Van der Bellen takes a sideways position. The Interior Minister has appointed his controversial confidante as Director General for Public Security. But the Federal President refuses to sign. In: Die Presse , May 20, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ Kickl-Mann Goldgruber becomes General Director for Public Security. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung / APA , May 20, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ Hellin Jankowski: Briefly warns of a "left shift" and meets Van der Bellen and Kickl today. In: Die Presse , May 20, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2019: "... Criticism of Kickl - and the appreciation of Goldgruber [...] And for the brief immediately a swipe ready: That Kickl had his controversial confidant Peter Goldgruber in the midst of the government crisis Having appointed General Director for Public Security is another clear sign, criticized Kurz. It shows that there is still no awareness of how to deal with and clear up this scandal among the people of freedom. ... "