State Chancellery

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In the administrative law of the German-speaking countries, a state chancellery is the authority that performs administrative and staff functions for the head of government or the head of state .

Germany

State Chancellery of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin

In most of Germany's countries , the State Chancellery (also the Senate Chancellery or State Ministry ) is the official seat of the Prime Minister . The officials and employees of the State Chancellery support the Prime Minister in carrying out his official duties. The State Chancellery has the status of a supreme state authority . The head of the state chancellery is usually called the head of the state chancellery (CdS).

Central tasks are the comprehensive information, the preparation of problems, the preparation of decisions for the respective head of government, the enforcement of the policy authority of the government head as well as planning, coordination, steering and control of the government work. The authority's area of responsibility also includes the preparation of decisions on the award of medals and state prizes , the organization of protocol matters as well as press and public relations work .

In the German city-states (see Berlin , Bremen and Hamburg ) the Senate Chancellery corresponds to the State Chancellery; Baden-Württemberg uses the term State Ministry .

State Chancelleries of the German Länder

Switzerland

In most Swiss cantons is the State - in some cantons chancellery or Landeskanzlei called - the central administrative department of the cantonal government and in most cases the cantonal parliament . Its head, commonly known as state clerk , in some cantons referred to as council clerk, land clerk or office director , usually takes part in government deliberations without voting rights.

Austria

In imperial Austria the court chancellery was the emperor's cabinet . Under Emperor Charles VI. It was restructured in 1720 and moved in 1721 as the Secret Court and State Chancellery to the building that was erected on the Meierhof of the Hofspital directly on the mighty city ​​fortifications by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt , today's Ballhausplatz 2 . From 1742 to 1848 this [ house ,] court and state chancellery was the highest government agency directly “working” for the monarch. With house that was House of Habsburg , mostly house Austria called, meant; the court denoted the monarch and the government of the monarchy, the state .

The official name was from 1743 under Maria Theresia Imperial Royal secret court and state canzley for foreign affairs , 1757–1793 KK secret court and state canzley of foreign, Dutch and Italian business , then the care of the Austrian Netherlands and the Italian The properties were moved to two of their own state chancelleries, and they got their original name. The Dutch and Italian departments became subdivisions on April 1, 1857. From 1811 to 1820 the name KK was the secret house, court and state chancellery for foreign business , because after 1804 it also represented the Habsburg empire in person. From 1821 it was called the KK secret house, court and state chancellery. The authority was in 1848 in k. k. , from 1867 in k. u. k. Renamed Ministry of the Imperial House and Foreign Affairs and existed until November 1918 .

In particular, the House, Court and State Chancellery directed diplomacy and foreign policy of the Habsburg Monarchy, and can be seen as the forerunner of the Austrian Foreign Ministry (now the Foreign and European Ministry ) as well as the Federal Chancellery . "Ballhausplatz" is still the name for the republic's political power center in Austria.

Overall, the authority had in its history from Charles VI. seven chiefs. The most prominent of these state chancellors was Prince Metternich , whom the revolution in the Austrian Empire in 1848 caused to resign and flee.

From Joseph I onwards there were two Austrian court chancelleries: that of the court and state, and a second that took care of the "provincialia et iudicialia" and - alongside the compatriot ministries - can be seen as the forerunner of the justice ministry.

In republican Austria, State Chancellor or State Chancellery 1918–1920 and 1945 were designations in the state still active with a provisional constitution, which were subsequently replaced by Federal Chancellor or Federal Chancellery. State Chancellor was Karl Renner both times .

Corresponding authorities at federal level

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the Supreme State Authorities of Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stala.sachsen-anhalt.de
  2. ^ Supreme State Authorities Brandenburg
  3. ↑ Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (-Hungary) 1720-1920 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 978-3-205-07269-0 , especially chapter central management , p. 47 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Federal Chancellery, Dept. VII / 6 Federal Press Service; Peter Plener (editor), Amt 7 (Waldegg / Békési, design): The Federal Chancellery. Folder, undated ( pdf ( memento of the original from August 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Bka. gv.at). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bka.gv.at
  5. ↑ on the status last see: Joseph Marx von Liechtenstern: Staatsverfassungs der Oesterreichischen Monarchy in Grundrisse . Verlag v. Kleinmayer, Vienna 1791, Political Science , Section Five State Offices , II. Geheime Hof- und Staatskazlei , p. 303 ff . ( Google eBook, full view ).
  6. ↑ Renate Zedinger: The administration of the Austrian Netherlands in Vienna (1714-1795): studies on the centralization of the Viennese court in Staatswerdungsprozess the Habsburg monarchy . Volume 7 of the series of publications of the Austrian Society for Research in the Eighteenth Century. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-205-99011-6 , esp. The Dutch Department , p. 96–103 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Matsch: The Foreign Service . 1986, Section a) Head , p. 53 ff . ( Google book search ).
  8. ↑ Hofkanzlei , in Universal-Lexikon , http://universal_lexikon.deacademic.com/