Secretary General (Austrian Ministries)
A general secretary is a management position that exists in various Austrian federal ministries .
Position and function
This function is inserted between the level of the federal minister , the head of department , and the level of the section heads , the most senior ministerial officials as heads of the sections . In contrast to a State Secretary , who also stands between the minister and the civil service, the General Secretary has the authority to issue instructions to the subordinate section heads .
The function was originally only intended in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but has been possible in all ministries since April 1, 2000. On January 8, 2018, the General Secretary became the immediate superior of all section heads of the Ministry, which was previously only provided for in the Foreign Ministry.
A peak of general secretaries existed in the federal government short-I . In the Bundesregierung Bierlein , on the other hand, there were originally only two general secretaries; a few weeks later the Secretary General was abolished again in the Federal Chancellery.
General Secretaries of the Austrian Ministries
As of June 30, 2019, there was a General Secretary in Johannes Peterlik only in the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs .
General Secretaries after the formation of the Federal Government Kurz II in January 2020:
- Ministry of Education: Martin Netzer
- Chancellery: Bernd Brünner
- Ministry of Defense: Dieter Kandlhofer
- Ministry of Finance: Dietmar Schuster
- Ministry of the Interior: Helmut Tomac
- Foreign Ministry: Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal
- Ministry of Agriculture: Gernot Maier
- Environment and Transport Ministry: Herbert Kasser
- Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport: Eva Wildfellner
- Ministry of Social Affairs: Ines Stilling
No general secretaries within the meaning of the law were or are:
- the General Director for Public Security (GDföS) at the Ministry of the Interior - Head of the General Directorate for Public Security (specifically for tasks of security administration; regulated in the Security Police Act , SPG); since 1930
- the Director General of Public Health in the Ministry of Health
- former General Troop Inspector at the Ministry of National Defense , 1956–1999
literature
- Peter Bußjäger : The Secretary General and the Federal Ministry . In: Journal for Legal Policy (JRP) . Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2019, p. 34-39 , doi : 10.33196 / jrp201901003401 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Klatzer: Powerful posts in the ministries. In: ORF.at. December 20, 2017, accessed June 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Lisa Nimmervoll: Chancellor Bierlein has the general secretariats evaluated. In: The Standard. June 4, 2019, accessed June 4, 2019 .
- ↑ New home for ministers, new mandataries, new speakers. In: The press . January 7, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ^ Tomac becomes Secretary General in the Ministry of the Interior. In: ORF.at . January 4, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 .
- ↑ meineabektiven.at: Dr. Dietmar Schuster , accessed on May 19, 2020
- ^ Gernot Maier is General Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture. In: bauernzeitung.at. January 9, 2020, accessed on January 9, 2020 (Austrian German).
- ↑ Gewessler makes section head general secretary. In: ORF.at . January 17, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Kogler appoints Wildfellner as general secretary. In: Upper Austrian news . January 23, 2020, accessed January 23, 2020 .
- ^ Eva Wildfellner becomes Secretary General in the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport. January 22, 2020, accessed January 23, 2020 .
- ^ Ex-Minister Stilling new General Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs. In: The press . May 28, 2020, accessed August 23, 2020 .