State government Renner I

The Renner I state government (October 31, 1918 - March 15, 1919) was appointed by the State Council for the Executive Committee of the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria .

On October 30, 1918, the National Assembly had previously elected or confirmed its three presidents with equal rights - Franz Dinghofer (with 157 of 163 votes), Johann Hauser and Karl Seitz (both with all 163 votes) - and the other 20 members of the State Council elected. The inauguration of the state government took place on October 31, 1918. Since the State Council appointed a state government for the first time and this came into being without the involvement of Emperor Karl I , Austria's republican history began practically on that day. In the following days, the state secretaries took over the German-Austrian agendas of the Lammasch Ministry, the last imperial government, which was formally removed by Charles I on November 11, 1918, the day he resigned from the government. On the following day the State Chancellor moved into the seat of the former Imperial and Royal Council of Ministers Presidium , the Modena Palace in Vienna's Herrengasse.

The three political camps, Social Democrats , Christian Socials and Greater Germans , were represented in the government. Their inauguration took place on October 31, 1918 by Karl Seitz and Franz Dinghofer in the budget hall of the House of Representatives in the Reichsrat building . President Dinghofer reported to the Provisional National Assembly on November 12, 1918 about the appointment of the government. He did this at the beginning of their first plenary session in the previous Imperial and Royal Council building .

The basis for the appointment of the state government was the resolution passed on October 30, 1918 by the Provisional National Assembly on the basic institutions of state power.

In the Renner I state government, a representative of the three-person Presidium of the State Council presided over the cabinet meetings. The three presidents Seitz, Hauser and Dinghofer took turns every week, one each chaired the house (= Prov. National Assembly), the Council (= State Council) and the cabinet (= State Government); the state chancellor ( head of the chancellery ) was formally her auxiliary body.

The Renner I state government resigned on March 3, 1919 after the election it had prepared for the Constituent National Assembly , which took place on February 16, 1919, but was instructed by the State Council to continue business until the next government was elected. The Renner II state government was elected by the new parliament on March 15, 1919. On that day the Council of State and the Presidency of the Council of State were abolished.

occupation

State Secretary (for)	Official	Political party	Undersecretary of State
Head of the State Chancellery, State Chancellor	Karl Renner	SDAP
Exterior	Viktor Adler , † November 11, 1918 Otto Bauer from November 21, 1918	SDAP	Otto Bauer until November 21, 1918; Leopold Waber ( GDVP ), and Egon Pflügl ( CSP ), from November 5, 1918
Army	Josef Mayer	DnP	Julius German ( SDAP )
Interior	Heinrich Mataja	CSP
Judiciary	Julius Roller	independent
Finances	Otto Steinwender	DnP / GDVP
Agriculture and Forestry	Josef Stockler	CSP
Trade and commerce , industry and buildings	Karl Urban	CSP
Public Works	Johann Zerdik	CSP
Transportation	Karl Jukel	CSP
Folk nutrition	Johann Löwenfeld-Soot	independent
Social care	Ferdinand Hanusch	SDAP	Josef Resch ( CSP )
Public health	Ignaz Kaup
classes	Raphael Pacher	GDVP

Remarks

1. ↑ daily newspaper Wiener Zeitung , no. 253, November 1, 1918 p.3
2. ↑ StGBl. No. 1/1918 of November 15, 1918
3. ^ Contemporary: State Secretary for Foreign Affairs
4. ↑ The appointment was not communicated to the National Assembly , stenographic minutes of the meetings of the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria 1918 and 1919, Part I: Personal Register, p. 3, note
5. ^ Contemporary: State Secretary of the Interior
6. ^ Contemporary: State Secretary for Finance