Ministry of Public Works (Cisleithanien)

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Austria-HungaryAustria-Hungary Kk Ministry of Public Works
Former authority
State level Cisleithanien , immediately subordinate to the Emperor of Austria
Position of the authority one of the highest authorities for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Imperial Council
Consist June 27, 1908-30. October 1918 (establishment of the German-Austrian State Office for Public Works), November 11, 1918 (removal of the last minister)
Headquarters Vienna 9. , Porzellangasse 33 (location 1918)
Authority management kk Minister for Public Works

The kk Ministry of Public Works was 1908 to 1918 with responsibility for the public economic affairs of the government represented at the Imperial Council kingdoms and countries ( Cisleithania ) Austria-Hungary . After the First World War it was continued in the Renner I state government of German Austria as the state office for public works until March 15, 1919; from the Renner II state government onwards, the agendas in the trade department were taken care of.

Historical development

AustriaAustria  German-Austrian State Office for Public Works
Former Austrian authority
State level Federation
Position of the authority Supreme federal authority
founding October 30, 1918 ( Renner I state government )
Dissolved March 15, 1919 (integrated into the State Office for Trade and Commerce, Industry and Buildings; Renner II State Government )
Headquarters Vienna 9. , Liechtensteinstrasse 46 A
Authority management Johann Zerdik , State Secretary for Public Works

A Ministry for Public Works and Mining had already existed in 1848 with the first introduction of ministries. The minister at that time was Andreas von Baumgartner .

The ministry was created with the law of June 27, 1908. The establishment of the ministry was announced by the total ministry (the imperial government) on July 6, 1908.

When the department was founded, the building, which was built as a residential building and bordering on Fürstengasse , was purchased at Liechtensteinstrasse 46 A (Identity address: Porzellangasse 33 A). The house, which turned out to be too small for a central authority, was expanded by acquiring the residential building at Liechtensteinstrasse 46 (Identity address: Porzellangasse 33), separated by a courtyard. In order to (partially) remedy the spatial inconveniences that existed despite two houses, a bridge structure was built at the level of the first floor (and still exists today) to connect the two official buildings. The originally freely accessible, later spanned courtyard ( passage between Liechtensteinstrasse and Porzellangasse) had already been closed to the public by bars after the acquisition of the second property. (After the authorities were closed in mid-March 1919, both buildings were re-dedicated to residential purposes.)

In the state of German Austria , which was newly constituted at the end of the First World War on October 30, 1918 and declared itself a republic on November 12, 1918, the State Office for Public Works was established in the Renner I state government as the successor to the ministry. Like the latter, the offices of other new states in the area of ​​Cisleithania took over the affairs of the Imperial and Royal Ministry, which concerned their national territory.

At the same time, there was a state office for trade, industry and trade and one for transport in German Austria (which had been founded as the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry in 1896). In the subsequent Renner II cabinet, the public works agendas were incorporated into the State Office for Trade and Commerce, Industry and Buildings on March 15, 1919 .

On November 14, 1918, the government of Karel Kramář established the Ministry of Public Works (Ministerstvo veřejných prací) of the new Czechoslovak Republic , which František Staněk took over.

Responsibility and Services

In addition to river regulation measures - the minister was, for example, chairman of the Danube Regulation Commission founded in 1850 , which worked on the great Viennese Danube regulation in the 1870s - dams and port construction also fell into his area of ​​responsibility. In 1909, the ministry's hydraulic engineering section, headed by Ernst Ritter von Lauda , organized the establishment of the Austrian hydropower cadastre and the establishment of the state research institute for hydraulic engineering .

In cooperation with the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry, the Ministry was jointly responsible for the construction of traffic routes, and the Mining Authority, Standardization and the Imperial and Royal Arctic were also subordinate to it . The Museum of Art and Industry (today's MAK) in Vienna was also incorporated into the Ministry in 1908.

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Archival material

The archive of the Ministry of Public Works was included in the holdings of the Austrian State Archives ; Files relating to Bohemian, Moravian or Silesian affairs were transferred to the Czech National Archives (Národní Archives) in 1920 . The last comparison of stocks was ceremoniously carried out in 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGBl. No. 123. Law of June 27, 1908, RGBl. No. 123, with which, on the occasion of the establishment of the Ministry of Public Works, legal provisions on the sphere of activity of individual ministries are changed. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1908, p. 501. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rgb;
    RGBl. No. 124. Announcement of the total ministry of July 6th, 1908, concerning the establishment of a ministry for public works for the kingdoms and countries represented in the imperial council. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1908, pp. 501–505. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rgb.
  2. ↑ See: Small Chronicle. (...) Structural changes in the Ministry of Labor. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 16584/1910, October 23, 1910, p. 10, top right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  3. ↑ StGBl. No. 1. Resolution of the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria of October 30, 1918 on the basic institutions of state power. (…) § 13 .. In:  State Law Gazette for the State of German Austria , year 1918, p. 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sgb.
  4. ^ E. Offenthaler: Lauda, ​​Ernst Ritter von , from www.epub.oeaw.ac.at, accessed November 11, 2011.
  5. ↑ The Austrian Railways Traffic Book was published with the Kk Eisenbahnministerium
  6. ↑ The magazine Bergbau und Hütte was published by the Imperial and Royal Ministry or State Office for Public Works around 1915–1920
  7. ↑ Schwarzer von Heldenstamm, Ernst (1808-1860), journalist and politician. Austrian Biographical Lexicon.
    Constantin von Wurzbach : Schwarzer, Ernst . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, p. 328 ( digital copy ).
    Black, serious. ADB 33 (1891).
    Ernst Schwarzer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna .
  8. ↑ Trnka of Laberon, Ottokar (Otakar) Frh. (1871-1919), politicians, officials and technicians. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 466 f. (Direct links on p. 466 , p. 467 ).
  9. ↑ File exchange Austria-Czech Republic , Austrian State Archives
predecessor kk Ministry of Public Works
Departments :		 successor
- Austrian Ministry of Construction
June 27, 1908 - March 15, 1919
(State Office from October 30, 1918) 		Federal Ministry for Trade and Commerce, Industry and Buildings
BMHGIB
- Czech Ministry of Public Works
June 27th, 1908 - October 28th / 14th November 1918 		Ministry of Public Works