!!!Bundeskanzleramt

Federal Chancellery (from 1918 to 1920 and from April to December 1945 
"State Chancellery"), headed by the  Federal Chancellor; together with 
the other  Federal Ministries it handles the affairs of the supreme 
federal administration. The federal chancellery is subdivided into 
5 sections, which deal in particular with the following matters: 
awards and etiquette; staff and organisational affairs; documentation 
and information (administrative library); supervision of Statistik 
Oesterreich (Austrian Central Statistical Office) and the Austrian 
State Archive; all programmes for promoting the arts and culture 
(Department for the Arts); information service on behalf of the  
Federal Government (Federal Press Service); general government policy 
matters and coordination of economic policy issues which go beyond the 
remit of the individual ministries and departments; social partnership 
issues (Paritaetische Kommission); OECD matters (Department for 
Coordination); matters concerning the federal constitution 
(Constitutional Law Service). Ministerial responsibility for  women's 
issues were transferred from the Federal Chancellery to the Federal 
Ministry for Social Security and Generations ( Sozialministerium) in 
2000. The federal government holds weekly sessions in the Federal 
Chancellery ( Council of Ministers).

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Until 1918 the building of the Federal Chancellery at  Ballhausplatz 
opposite the Amalien tract of the Wiener Hofburg (imperial palace) 
housed the Imperial Ministry for External Affairs. It was built from 
1717 to 1719 to a design by J. L. von Hildebrandt as Court 
Chancery; it was enlarged by N. Pacassi from 1764 to 1767; in 1902/03 
the National Archives at Minoritenplatz were added, in 1944 it was 
damaged by bombs and reconstructed after the war. State Chancellor 
Prince  Kaunitz lived in the building for many years; during the 
Congress of Vienna (1814/15) most of the conferences were held in the 
building of the Federal Chancellery. In 1934 E.  Dollfuss was 
assassinated in the federal chancellery.

!Literature
Federal Press Service (ed.), Wien - Ballhausplatz 2. 
Ein Haus und seine Geschichte, 1992.


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