Chancellery Minister (Austria)

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An unofficial chancellery minister called Federal Minister, officially the Federal Minister in the Federal Chancellery , in Austria a Minister , who - with or without division ( sworn "without portfolio") - formally the Federal Chancellery acts, even if its assigned areas of the Office at the headquarters of Federal Chancellery.

In the currently incumbent Federal Government Kurz II there are two ministers of the Chancellery: Karoline Edtstadler ( ÖVP ; responsible for EU and constitution) and Susanne Raab ( ÖVP ; responsible for women and integration).

Function and position

A minister of the Chancellery is - in addition to the federal ministers entrusted with the management of a federal ministry - another member of the federal government . He is entrusted with the handling of certain business that fall within the scope of the Federal Chancellor . He has a seat and vote in the Council of Ministers .

Chancellery ministers are appointed by the Federal President on the proposal of the Federal Chancellor as required.

“The Federal President can delegate the factual management of certain matters belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery, including the tasks of personnel administration and organization, to their own Federal Ministers without prejudice to the continued membership of the Federal Chancellery; such federal ministers have the position of a competent federal minister with regard to the relevant matters. "

- Art. 77 para. 3 second sentence of the Federal Constitutional Act (B-VG)

There was a particular concentration of Chancellery ministers in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Federal Ministries for the Interior and Foreign Affairs were dissolved in 1923 and several other matters were centralized with the Federal Chancellor under Dollfuss and Schuschnigg during the Austro-Fascist era .
In the state governments of German Austria from October 30, 1918 to November 10, 1920 ( Renner I ,  II ,  III and initially Mayr I ), as well as in the provisional state government in 1945 (Renner IV), all department heads, as state secretaries , were subordinate to the state chancellery , like that Federal Chancellery was called at that time.

In addition, there are also some interim ministerial posts and assignments (e.g. during the formation and restructuring of ministries). Explicit ministers without a portfolio , ie employed for political, not administrative purposes, existed for a long time only in the interwar period (1918–1938) and during the occupation (1945–1955).

Official seat

The chancellery minister officiate often not directly in the Federal Chancellery on Ballhausplatz but traditional - as well as any state secretaries of the Federal Chancellor - in the main floor of the Amalie tract of the Imperial Palace , where the President resides.

List of Chancellery Ministers of the Republic of Austria

→ Main article : List of the Austrian Chancellery Ministers

See also

• List of State Secretaries in the Federal Chancellery (Austria)

Individual evidence

• Query in: Federal governments since 1920 , parlament.gv.at → Who is Who → Federal Government → Federal Chancellery

1. ↑ According to the resolutions of January 8, 2020: Federal Law Gazette II No. 8/2020 (Karoline Edtstadler) and Federal Law Gazette II No. 10/2020 (Susanne Raab).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ludwig-Josef Melicher; Bundeskanzleramt III / 6, Verwaltungsakademie des Bundes (Ed.): The Federal Ministry as the central office and the subordinate (or outsourced) area . Script for the seminar GA 12 of the Federal Administration Academy, Vienna 2009, Section B. Chancellery Minister , p. 11 (for the seminar see Federal Administration Academy: Education Program 2012 ( memento of the original from September 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , p. 33)
3. ↑ The Hofburg ( Memento of the original dated May 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hofburg-wien.at → Worth knowing;
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