List of Austrian Defense Ministers
The list of defense ministers in Austria includes the officially different functional titles of defense ministers of the State of German Austria 1918/19, the Republic of Austria 1920–1934, the dictatorial state of Austria 1934–1938 and the Republic of Austria since 1945 .
Until 1918 see kuk war minister (for Austria-Hungary) and kk minister for national defense (for the Austrian states).
First republic
No. | Head of Department | Taking office | Political party | Department designation |
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1 | Josef Mayer | October 30, 1918 | German National Party | State Office for Army Affairs |
2 | Julius German | March 15, 1919 | SDAP | |
3 | Walter Breisky | October 22, 1920 | official | |
4th | Egon shine | November 22, 1920 | official | Federal Ministry for the Army |
5 | Walter Breisky | April 7, 1921 | official | |
6th | Carl Vaugoin | April 28, 1921 | CS | |
7th | Josef Guardian | October 7, 1921 | officer | |
8th | Carl Vaugoin * | May 31, 1922 | CS | |
9 | Engelbert Dollfuss ** | September 21, 1933 | CS | |
10 | Alois Schönburg-Hartenstein | March 12, 1934 | officer | |
11 | Engelbert Dollfuss ** | July 10, 1934 | VF | |
12 | Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg | July 26, 1934 | Home Guard | |
13 | Kurt Schuschnigg ** | July 29, 1934 | VF | |
Federal Ministry for National Defense | ||||
14th | Arthur Seyss-Inquart ** | March 11, 1938 | NSDAP |
Second republic
The occupied postwar Austria had until summer 1955, when the treaty came with the four occupying powers in place, no official in charge of defense department.
The B-Gendarmerie , forerunner of the Army of the Second Republic, was set up in the Federal Ministry of the Interior , where State Secretary Ferdinand Graf ( ÖVP ), 1956 first Minister of Defense after 1945, was responsible. On July 15, 1955, these agendas were transferred to the Office for National Defense, Section VI of the Federal Chancellery . Graf remained politically responsible for this, but formally remained subordinate to the Minister of the Interior. A year later the Ministry of Defense was established.
No. | Federal Minister | Taking office | Political party | Department |
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1 | Ferdinand Graf | July 15, 1956 | ÖVP | Federal Ministry for National Defense |
2 | Karl Schleinzer | April 11, 1961 | ÖVP | |
3 | Georg Prader | April 2, 1964 | ÖVP | |
4th | Brigadier Johann Freihsler | April 21, 1970 | Non-party | |
Bruno Kreisky | 4th February 1971 | SPÖ | ||
5 | Brigadier Karl Lütgendorf | February 8, 1971 | Non-party | |
Bruno Kreisky | May 31, 1977 | SPÖ | ||
6th | Otto Rösch | June 8, 1977 | SPÖ | |
7th | Friedhelm Frischenschlager | May 21, 1983 | FPÖ | |
8th | Helmut Krünes | May 12, 1986 | FPÖ | |
9 | Robert Lichal | January 21, 1987 | ÖVP | |
Alois Mock 1 | November 6, 1990 | ÖVP | ||
10 | Werner Fasslabend | 17th December 1990 | ÖVP | |
11 | Herbert Scheibner | February 4, 2000 | FPÖ | |
12 | Günther Platter | February 28, 2003 | ÖVP | |
13 | Norbert Darabos | January 11, 2007 | SPÖ | |
Federal Ministry of Defense and Sport (from February 1, 2009) | ||||
14th | Gerald Klug | 11th March 2013 | SPÖ | |
15th | Hans Peter Doskozil | January 26, 2016 | SPÖ | |
16 | Mario Kunasek | 18th December 2017 | FPÖ | |
Federal Ministry of Defense (from January 8, 2018) | ||||
17th | Lieutenant General Johann Luif | May 22, 2019 | Non-party | |
18th | Major General Thomas Starlinger | 3rd June 2019 | Non-party | |
19th | Klaudia Tanner | 7th January 2020 | ÖVP |
- 1 As Foreign Minister entrusted with the continuation of business
Defense Minister Robert Lichal did not have to do military service as a so-called white age group , Defense Minister Werner Fasslabend due to unsuitability . Defense Minister Norbert Darabos completed civilian service as a substitute military service.
Overview: ministers and governments
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Politicians in the Armed Forces - Unfit, unwilling, indispensable . Article from January 17, 2013, accessed October 25, 2015.
- ^ Diepresse.com - The military service careers of our politicians . Article dated October 9, 2010, accessed October 25, 2015.