Provisional state government Renner 1945

The Austrian Provisional State Government Renner was in office from April 27, 1945 to December 20, 1945. It was a concentration government made up of the SPÖ , ÖVP and KPÖ that had been agreed by the three parties in the days before . The provisional state government derived its powers from the declaration of independence also proclaimed by the parties mentioned , with which the Republic of Austria was re-established.

As 1918-1920, in the most part of Karl Renner -led start-up phase of the Republic (see state government Renner I , II , and III and Mayr I ), chairman of the government (now Chancellor) called "chancellor", the head of department (now Federal Minister ) were called "State Secretaries", and the State Secretaries assigned to the Federal Ministers today were called Undersecretaries. Accordingly, the designation “State Chancellery” was used instead of Federal Chancellery and “State Office” was used instead of Ministry . On December 20, 1945, the Federal Constitutional Law in the version of 1929 came into full effect again. For the Federal Government Figl I appointed on the same day by Federal President Renner, who had just been elected , the names that were customary as early as 1920–1938 were used again, which are still valid today.

With the support of the Soviet Union, the state government saw itself as the representative of all of Austria from the start, but was initially de facto only fully effective in the Soviet-occupied zone in eastern Austria. The Salzburg provincial government decided on May 24, 1945 to send a welcome note to the “Federal Government”, but was then warned by the American military commander in Salzburg. Renner invited the representatives of the federal states with the approval of the Allied Council, constituted on September 11th, to the state conference in Vienna for September 24th to 26th, 1945. The Renner government was thus recognized by all federal states and, on October 20, by the Allies for the entire federal territory, whereby the recognition after the second state conference from October 9 to 11, 1945 also referred de jure to decisions made previously.

The government's private plenary sessions with all state secretaries and undersecretaries (over 30 people) were called the Cabinet Council. It was not only administered here, but in the absence of a parliament, laws were also passed: according to Schärf, after the years of fascism, democracy's first walking school, so to speak .

The state chancellor and the three state secretaries without portfolio (in the function of a vice-chancellor ) exercised the political leadership and met as a political cabinet council for their own meetings; according to the provisional constitution they were entrusted with the duties of the head of state .

State Office (for)	Official	Undersecretary of State
State Chancellery	State Chancellor Karl Renner ( SPÖ ) State Secretaries: Leopold Figl ( ÖVP ) Johann Koplenig ( KPÖ ) Adolf Schärf (SPÖ)	Heinrich Herglotz (ÖVP, from May 4, 1945), Franz Winterer (SPÖ, for the army), Karl Gruber (ÖVP, for external things, from September 26, 1945)
Interior	Franz Honner (KPÖ)	Oskar Helmer (SPÖ) Raoul Bumballa (ÖVP) Josef Sommer (ÖVP, from September 26, 1945)
Judiciary	Josef Gerö (independent)	Karl Altmann (KPÖ) Max Scheffenegger (SPÖ) Ferdinand Nagl (ÖVP)
Public education, for teaching and education and for religious matters	Ernst Fischer (KPÖ)	Karl Lugmayer (ÖVP) Josef Enslein (SPÖ) Ernst Hefel (ÖVP, for Kultus)
Social administration	Johann Böhm (SPÖ)	Franz David (KPÖ) Alois Weinberger (ÖVP)
Finances	Georg Zimmermann (independent)	Hans Rizzi (independent, from May 4, 1945)
Agriculture and Forestry	Rudolf Buchinger (ÖVP, until September 26, 1945) Josef Kraus (ÖVP, from September 26, 1945)	Alois Mentasti (SPÖ) Laurenz Genner (KPÖ)
Industry, commerce, trade and transport	Eduard Heinl (ÖVP)	Karl Waldbrunner (SPÖ) Hermann Lichtenegger (KPÖ, from May 4, 1945)
Folk nutrition	Andreas Korp (SPÖ)	Helene Postranecky (KPÖ) Josef Kraus (ÖVP, until September 26, 1945) Ernst Winsauer (ÖVP, from September 26, 1945)
Public Works, Transitional Economics, and Reconstruction	Julius Raab (ÖVP)	Heinrich Schneidmadl (SPÖ) Otto Mödlagl (KPÖ, from May 4, 1945)
Asset protection and economic planning	Vinzenz Schumy (ÖVP, from September 26, 1945)	Franz Rauscher (SPÖ, from September 26, 1945) Alfred Neumann (KPÖ, from September 26, 1945)

Johann Löwenfeld-Russ was originally intended to head the State Office for People's Nutrition, but he died a few days before he was appointed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Art. III of the Declaration of Independence StGBl. No. 1/1945
2. ^ Adolf Schärf: Between Democracy and People's Democracy. Austria's unification and rebuilding in 1945 , Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1950, p. 9 ff.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} StGBl. No. 85/1945
4. ↑ State Secretary Dr. Löwenfeld soot died. In:  New Austria / New Austria. Organ of democratic unification , April 28, 1945, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).