Ministry of National Defence and Sport (Austria)

For a list of holders of the ministry, see List of Defense Ministers of Austria. For the defence ministries of other countries, see defence minister.

The Ministry of Defence and Sports (Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung und Sport, sometimes shortened to BMLVS or Verteidigungsministerium) is the government ministry of Austria for all matters relating to the military affairs (especially the Austrian Armed Forces) or to sport. In the Faymann cabinet, its current minister is Hans Peter Doskozil (SPÖ).

Authority

The Ministry of National Defence and Sport's base in the Rossauer Kaserne in Vienna.

The minister is head of all the ministry's subordinate authorities and has command and control of the Austrian Armed Forces in all cases it is not directly subject to the President of Austria and is 'Ressortchef' of the 'Sektion Sport'. For certain acts, such as the use of more than 5,000 men of the militia or reserve, the Federal Minister for Defence's authorization is bound by this, since in these cases the constitutional command of the army takes precedence.

Responsibilities

Specifically, the Ministry[1] is responsible for matters regarding:

Office holders

Subordinate departments

Subordinate to the ministry are the:

Historical development

The Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Sport have been linked since 2009.

Defence Ministry

Previous to 1918, there was a Ministry of War for the whole of Austria-Hungary and a Ministry of Defence solely for the Austrian half of the empire. The defence ministry took on various names during the First Austrian Republic of 1918 to 1938, but was abolished during Austria's anschluss into Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. During the Allied occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1956, defence was in the remit of the "Office for National Defence"

From 1945 to 1956, during the period of the occupation forces fremdkontrollierten by Republic of Austria were the agendas of national defense for the "Office for National Defence" (Amtes für Landesverteidigung), a section in the Federal Chancellery. This became a new ministry in 1956.

Sports Ministry

Sport first became a government portfolio in Austria in 1966, as part of the remit of the Federal Ministry of Education, which was in 1984 renamed the Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Sports. In 1991 sport was moved to the Federal Ministry of Health, Sport and Consumer Protection, then in 1995 to the Federal Chancellery, in 2000 to the Federal Ministry of Public Service and Sports, in 2003 back to the Federal Chancellery and finally in 2009 joined the current Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports.

References

  1. Appendix to § 2, Section H of the Federal Ministries Act 1986 as amended

External links

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