Protocol order of precedence in Austria

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The Republic of Austria maintains the following protocol-based ranking :

  1. Federal President (Head of State)
  2. Cardinal (highest representative of the Catholic Church in Austria) K
  3. Federal Chancellor (Head of Government)
  4. President of the National Council (Speaker of Parliament) N
  5. European Commission President E
  6. Vice Chancellor
  7. Former Federal President
  8. Federal Minister (government members of the Federation)
  9. EU Commissioner E.
  10. President of the Federal Council (spokesman for the second chamber of parliament)
  11. President of a Supreme Court (currently: Supreme Court , Constitutional Court , Administrative Court )
  12. President of the Court of Auditors
  13. Former Federal Chancellor
  14. Metropolitans of the Catholic Church (heads of the ecclesiastical provinces) K
  15. Governors (heads of government and the federal states)
  16. Presidents of the state parliaments (spokesman for the state parliaments)
  17. Diocesan Bishops (heads of a diocese)
  18. Deputy Governor
  19. State councils (members of the government of the federal states)
  20. Mayor of the state capitals

Notes:
The inclusion of Catholic dignitaries is based on the long association with the Holy See , last regulated in the 1934 Concordat . K The ranks of the executive representatives of the European Union are based on Austria's accession to the EU in 1995. E The ceremonial with regard to other foreign dignitaries is regulated by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (Federal Law Gazette No. 66/1966).

KCardinal is currently the Archbishop of Vienna ; Catholic Church in Austria as an Austrian institution, the papal nuncio (ambassador) is considered a foreign diplomat; Metropolitans are the two archbishops of Austria.
E.This order differs from the rank ceremony of the EU .
NThe President of the National Council as the representative of the sovereign of the state (the directly elected representative of the people) is traditionally seen in Austria as the “second highest office in the state” in the parliamentary-democratic understanding.

Individual welcome lists are created for events organized by various authorities and organizations.

literature

  • Karl Urschitz: Protocol with ceremonial and etiquette. (= Publications of the Styrian State Library 28). Manumedia-Verlag Schnider, Graz 2002, ISBN 978-3-902020-19-2 (p. OA)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ref. Urschitz 2002; quoted from The Ranking of the Federal Protocol, knigge2day.at, accessed July 4, 2019 - information there “most important positions”.
  2. ↑ A more detailed, slightly different list (with a focus on Styria) gives z. B .: Oesterreichische Kontrollbank: The “event etiquette ” ( pdf , okb.at; not publicly available): State secretaries and former provincial governors after the deputy governor; 2nd and 3rd President of the State Parliament after the State Councilors.
  3. ^ Elisabeth Köstinger elected as the new President of the National Council. Parliament correspondence, 2017, parlament.gv.at → Current in Parliament → Headlines.
  4. ↑ For example: Lower Austrian Fire Brigade Association - implementation of events: welcome list. S. 11 (pdf, afkdo-gaenserndorf.at),
    welcome list of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Radiation Association (pdf, noe.oekb.net).
  5. ↑ The work deals mainly with the protocol of the federal state of Styria ; Information in Olaf Jelinski: The international diplomatic protocol compared to the protocol in companies. An analysis of the protocol as a political institution. Dissertation, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, November 2014, p. 15 ( pdf, via d-nb.info )