List of Ministers and State Secretaries for Europe (Austria)

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Austria in the EU

The following list gives the Federal Minister and Secretaries of State of the Republic of Austria , which for European Affairs were responsible ( Minister for Europe , European Affairs ) , as well as add their section chiefs .

To the portfolio

Naturally, matters of contact with European states have always been part of the portfolio of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky (SPÖ), who found a fellow campaigner for Austria's accession to the EU in his Foreign Minister Alois Mock (ÖVP) , then created the office of Secretary for European Affairs in the Federal Chancellery in 1990 , occupied by the UN diplomat Peter Jankowitsch . At the Foreign Ministry there was an economic and integration policy section, which was also responsible for European issues (the section still exists today).

After a referendum in 1994 and accession on January 1, 1995, European affairs remained a “top priority” and settled at the Chancellery . Wolfgang Schüssel (ÖVP), Mock's successor as Foreign Minister and also a staunch European politician, brought Benita Ferrero-Waldner, an experienced UN employee, to his ministry as State Secretary with a focus on non-European politics. The 1st  EU Council Presidency, 2nd half of 1998, was held under Federal Chancellor Klima and Foreign Minister Schüssel.

When Schüssel became Federal Chancellor himself in 2000, Ferrero-Waldner took over the post of Foreign Minister, and the European agendas were transferred to the Foreign Ministry - also because the upcoming introduction of the euro (2002) meant pan-European measures going well beyond foreign policy. With the diplomat Eva Nowotny as head of the section, a special state secretary became unnecessary.
2005–2008, under Alfred Gusenbauer , a separate European Secretary of State was appointed for the 2nd EU Council Presidency in the first half of 2006, the non-party diplomat Hans Winkler , who, among other things, had already been Austria's permanent representative at the Council of Europe .

In 2007, Federal Chancellor Gusenbauer and Minister Ursula Plassnik of the SPÖ and ÖVP decided by mutual agreement to include the European department in the ministerial title and to rename the ministry from outdated "foreign affairs" to "European and international affairs" in the sense of the special status of EU membership . In 2013, after Michael Spindelegger, they returned to “Europe” and “Outside”, now connected with the integration of foreign immigrants, an office with which Sebastian Kurz was entrusted.

In 2017, when Kurz took office as head of government, alongside European and Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, an additional ministerial post for EU agendas was created at the Federal Chancellery, which was taken over by Kurz-Vertaute Gernot Blümel . He was also in charge of Austria's third EU Council Presidency in the second half of 2018. In the second term of office of Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg from the Europe Section, who already held this position in the Bierlein interim government, and the lawyer and EU MP Karoline Edtstadler became the two European Ministers.

Ministers and State Secretaries for Europe

  • Function: Usage with small letters is not an official designation
  • Background:  … portfolio not specifically named,  … StSkr.!!
Status of the list 1/2020
Min. / StSkr. Political party Term of office function Authority
(short) 		government
Peter Jankowitsch  SPÖ  Dec 17, 1990 -
0 Apr 3, 1992 		State Secretary (for European issues) BKA Vranitzky (III)
Brigitte Ederer  SPÖ  Apr 3, 1992 -
Oct 27, 1995 		State Secretary (for EU accession) BKA Vranitzky (III ,  IV)
Karl Schlögl  SPÖ  Oct 27, 1995 -
Jan 28 1997 		State Secretary (for the public service and Europe, from March 12, 1996 also for sport ; StSkr. F.ö.D. since April 6, 1995) BKA Vranitzky (IV , V)
Peter Wittmann  SPÖ  Jan 28 1997 -
0 Feb. 4, 2000 		State Secretary (for Europe, Art and Sport ) BKA climate
Benita Ferrero-Waldner  ÖVP  Feb. 4, 2000 -
Oct. 20, 2004 		Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs BMaA Bowl (I , II)
Ursula Plassnik  ÖVP  Oct 20, 2004 -
0 Dec 2, 2008
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs until Feb. 28, 2007,
since March 1, 2007 for European and international affairs 		BMaA
BMeiA 		Gusenbauer
Hans Winkler independent July 4, 2005 -
0 December 2, 2008
State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
since March 1, 2007 European and international affairs (especially for the preparation and implementation of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union ) 		BMaA
BMeiA 		Gusenbauer
Michael Spindelegger  ÖVP  Dec 2, 2008 -
Dec 16, 2013 		Federal Minister for European and International Affairs
since April 21, 2011 Vice Chancellor and BM f. europ. u. internat. 		BMeiA Faymann I.
Sebastian Kurz  ÖVP  Dec 16, 2013 -
Dec 18, 2017 		Federal Minister for European and International Affairs
since March 1, 2014 Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs 		BMeiA
BMEIA 		Faymann II , Kern
Karin Kneissl independent ( FPÖ ) Dec 18, 2017 -
0 Jun 3, 2019 		Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs BMEIA Briefly I , for the time being BR Löger
Gernot Blümel  ÖVP  Jan. 8 2018 -
0 Jun 3, 2019 		Chancellery Minister for EU, Arts, Culture and Media ; from May 28, 2019 entrusted with the continuation of the administration BM for EU, art, culture and media BKA Briefly I , for the time being BR Löger
Alexander Schallenberg independent June 3, 2019 - current
0 		until January 28, 2020 Federal Minister for Europe, Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs
June 5, 2019 to January 7. 2020 also entrusted with the management of the affairs for the EU, art, culture and media belonging to the sphere of activity of the Federal Chancellery
from 29 January 2020 Federal Minister for European and International Affairs 		BMEIA and
BKA
BMeiA 		Bierlein , Brief II
Karoline Edtstadler  ÖVP  Jan. 9 2020 - current
0 		until January 28, 2020 Federal Minister without portfolio (for European policy)
from January 29, 2020 Federal Minister for EU and Constitution 		BKA Short II

Head of the Integration / EU Coordination Policy Section and Department

Heads of the Section for Economics and Integration Policy , since the most recent EU coordination and economic policy matters , which, in addition to foreign trade relations and international economic policy, has also been responsible for individual policy areas of the EU since the 1990s ( European integration and cohesion ), and heads of department for integration / EU Coordination policies were:

  • Harald Dossi from 1993 Head of Department IV / 5 for integration policy coordination of the Federal Chancellery, from 1998 Head of Group V / A (before that from 1988 in the Constitutional Service of the Federal Chancellery as deputy head of Department V / 8, especially for international commercial law and legal matters relating to European integration; remained at the BKA, then Head of the Constitutional Service, 2007 Head of Section IV Coordination )
  • Gregor Woschnagg 1997–1999 Section Head (1987–1996 Head of the Department for Economic Integration, 1993–1996 Deputy Head)
  • Eva Nowotny 2000–2003 head of the economic and integration policy section in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
  • Martin Sajdik 2003–2007 Head of Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (before that, since 1999, Head of the EU Expansion Department, External Economic Relations and Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe)
  • Johannes Eigner 2008–2012 Deputy Head of Section III (previously Head of the Department for EU Enlargement; ENP, EU and Economic Relations with the Countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe; then Ambassador to Serbia )
  • Hubert Heiss since 2011 Section Head III EU Coordination and Economic Policy Matters

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "I have also removed the duplication between the Federal Chancellery and the Foreign Ministry, which was not good. Today the entire EU preparatory work is concentrated in the section headed by Section Leader Eva Nowotny […]. "Wolfgang Schüssel, Government Declaration 2000, in: 661st meeting of the Federal Council of the Republic of Austria . Stenographic Protocol, Friday, February 18, 2000, p. 10; parliament.gv.at
  2. ↑ In 2000, the affairs of euro information were transferred from the Ministry of Finance to the Federal Chancellery. Franz Morak, State Secretary in the Federal Chancellery. In: 662nd meeting of the Federal Council of the Republic of Austria . Stenographic Protocol, Thursday, March 16, 2000, p. 40; parliament.gv.at
  3. ↑ Plassnik: “New stage with a tried and tested team” ( memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmeia.gv.at 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. , bmeia.gv.at → Press releases archive 2007;
    Plassnik wants to rename the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . oe24.at, January 13, 2007 - quote from Plassnik, ibid .: “Europe is nothing strange; we are Europe. "
  4. ↑ Belongs to the particularly important sections to be filled with application group A1, cf. 1. Employment group A1 (higher service) (PDF) uni-salzburg.at
  5. ↑ Harald Dossi new Parliamentary Director from March 1, 2012. NR President Prammer appoints Dossi according to the Commission's proposal . Parliamentary Correspondence No. 98 of February 15, 2012;
    Head of Section Dr. Harald Dossi . (PDF) BKA, Sustainability.at