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The Government of Austria (German: Bundesregierung der Republik Österreich) is the executive cabinet of the Republic of Austria. It consists of the chancellor , who is the head of government , the vice chancellor and the ministers .
The Government Ministries of the Republic of Austria belong to the executive branch of the Austrian Government. The Functions and Duties of each Ministry is declared in the "Bundesministeriengesetz" (Law of Federal Ministries) from 1986.
According to the 1920 Constitution of Austria (Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz, B-VG) authored by Hans Kelsen, the office of the Austrian chancellor was established, with his residence on Ballhausplatz. Several chancellors of the Austrian First Republic also served as Foreign Ministers, a separate Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs was not ...
Austria is a semi-presidential [d] representative democracy with a popularly elected president as head of state and a chancellor as head of government and chief executive. Austria has the 13th highest nominal GDP per capita with high standards of living.
The Ministry was originally created as "Imperial and Royal Ministry of the Interior", serving as the empire-wide interior ministry for Austria-Hungary.It was succeeded by the "state office of the Interior" (Staatsamt des Innern) of the First Republic in 1918, and later renamed into "Federal Ministry of the Interior".
The first head of government after the monarchy was the State Chancellor of German-Austria, an office again only held by one person; Karl Renner. After allied powers declined a union between Austria and Germany , the office was renamed to just State Chancellor of Austria and later changed to Federal Chancellor, which remained the position's ...
Politics in Austria reflects the dynamics of competition among multiple political parties, which led to the formation of a Conservative-Green coalition government for the first time in January 2020, following the snap elections of 29 September 2019, and the election of a former Green Party leader to the presidency in 2016.
Minister (Austria) Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs; Ministry of Climate Action and Energy (Austria) Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection; Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (Austria)