Ministry of National Defence and Sport (Austria)
The as Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports (short BMLVS or Defense ) called Austrian administration federal institution is responsible for all military matters, in particular the Austrian Armed Forces in question, and all matters of sport responsible.
Federal Minister
In the presently reigning government Faymann II is Gerald Klug ( SPÖ) Minister of Defence and Sports. As such, he is department head of the Department of Sport and superior of all the BMLVS subordinate authorities. He therefore is responsible for the command and control over the Austrian Armed Forces, unless this is reserved to the President. For certain legal acts, such as the attraction of more than 5,000 men of the militia or reserve, the Federal Minister of Defence is subject to the authorization of the President, as this leads the constitutional command of the army.
Competencies
The Ministry is responsible in particular for:
- Affairs of the procurement of the constitutionally specified tasks of the armed
- Matters of operational and tactical command and control of the armed forces
- Affairs of Military Aviation
- Affairs of the armament and equipment of the armed forces and the human and material supplements the Federal Army
- Matters of military weapons, shooting and ammunition being
- Matters of defense technology, including the military - technical research and testing
- Affairs of the military restricted areas
- Matters of protection of the health of members of the armed forces, including the military hospitals and military supply of medicines
- Affairs of the military attaché service
- Affairs of the construction, maintenance and management of all plant, equipment and property of the Federation, serving the Federal Ministry, the military administration or the armed forces, including the Museum of Military History
- Matters of navigation, in automotive engineering, the communication and of surveying in the military field
- Leadership of the Military History Museum ( Military Historical Institute )
- Matters of military foundations and funds
- Affairs of the army Forestry Administration Allentsteig
- Affairs of the administration of the share rights of the Federation at the SIVBEG - Strategic real estate recovery, consulting and development company m. b. H., as long as the federal government is a shareholder, and the regulation of that company
- Affairs of the European Defence Agency
- Matters of sport
Controlling body of the armed forces is the National Security Council, which is based at the Federal Chancellery. The Secretary of Defense - in addition Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, Foreign Minister, Interior Minister, Minister of Justice and some Member of Parliament / Federal Council members - participants in this forum (until 2001: National Defence for military, now responsible for the entire civil protection).
As a sports ministry is responsible particularly for competitive sports and sports tourism, school sport and physical activity is still one of the agendas of the Ministry of Education ( Division II / 8 BMUKK - Exercise and Sport )
Organization
- Federal Minister of Defence and Sport: Gerald Klug
- Head of Cabinet of the Federal Minister Stefan Kammerhofer
- Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of the Federal Minister Brigadier Jürgen Ortner
- Chief of Staff: General Othmar Commendam
- Deputy Chief of the General Staff: Major General Bernhard Bair
- Head of Section I (central section ): Christian Kemperle
- Head of Section II (Planning): Major General Franz Leitgeb
- Head of Section III (provision ): Lieutenant General Norbert Gehart
- Head of Section IV (insert): Lieutenant General Karl Schmidseder
- Head of Section V ( sport): Samo Kobenter - site of the Ministry of Sports is the home of the sport in Vienna's Fourth ( 4th), Prinz- Eugen-Straße
Subordinate offices
Downstream of the Ministry are the following points:
- Armed Forces Operational Command: Major General Franz Reissner Deputy Commander: Major General Dieter Heidecker
- Army Personnel Office: Councillor Brigitte Habermayer Binder
- Military Real Estate Management Center: Councillor John Sailer
- Armaments and Procurement: Brigadier Christian Tauschitz
- Armaments and Military Technology: Brigadier Michael Janisch
- Heeresnachrichtenamt: Major General Edwin Potocnik
- Defense Agency: Major General Anton Oschep
- National Defence Academy: Major General Erich Csitkovits
- Theresa Military Academy Major General Norbert sense
- Army Sergeant Academy: Brigadier Nicholas Egger
- NBC Defence School: Colonel Michael Schuster
- Army troops school: OberstdG Jürgen Baranyai
- Flyers and antiaircraft school: Brigadier Günther Schiefert
- Army Logistics School: Brigadier Dieter Jocham
- Leadership support school: Colonel Christian Wally
Historical development
At the time of the Austro -Hungarian Empire was a Habsburg War Department, which was responsible for the entire monarchy, and a kk Ministry of Defence, which served only the Austrian half of the empire, furnished. From 1918 to 1920 there was a state Office of Military Affairs, 1920-1936, a German Federal Ministry of Military Affairs, from 1936 to 1938 was called the Authority Ministry of Defence. During the period of membership of the Greater German Reich no separate Austrian authority existed. From 1945 to 1956, ie in the time of the alien controlled by the occupying powers, Republic of Austria, the agendas of national defense were not for the Office for National Defence, a section in the Federal Chancellery. Thereafter, a separate ministry was created again, which meant by 2009 the Federal Ministry of Defence.
In the Federal Government Faymann I previously in the Federal Chancellery settled Sport agendas were affiliated to the Ministry of Defence. Sport was first mentioned in 1966 by law as a matter of the Federal Ministry for Education, 1984, by the name of the German Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Sports Sports for the first time in a ministry name before. 1991 Sport came to the Federal Ministry of Health, Sports and Consumer Protection, 1995 to the Federal Chancellery, 2000 to the Federal Ministry of Public Performance and Sport, 2003 back to the Federal Chancellery and finally in 2009 the Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports.