!!!Innenministerium, Bundesministerium für Inneres

Interior, Ministry of the; official name :Federal Ministry of the 
Interior, established in 1848 to replace the "Austro-Bohemian Court 
Chancellery" founded by Empress Maria Theresia; called "State Office 
of the Interior" under the Provisional Governments from 1918 to 1920 
and "State Office for Interior Affairs" in 1945; merged with 
the Federal  Ministry of Education between 1919 and 1923 (State Office 
and Federal Ministry of the Interior and of Education); integrated 
into the Federal Chancellery from 1923 to 1938; Federal Ministry of 
the Interior since 1945.

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Responsibilities of the Federal Ministry of the Interior include 
public security (maintenance of law and order and public security; 
weaponry, ammunition and explosives; central office of Interpol in 
Austria; Europol, air ambulance, passport matters, aviation section of 
the police, immigration and emigration; Schengen Information System, 
refugees; clubs, associations and assemblies; civil defence; disaster 
control,  road safety instruction and road statistics); matters 
concerning national frontiers; citizenship; elections; plebiscites and 
popular referendums; foundations and funds; maintenance of 
soldiers´ graves; and community service as an alternative to 
military service. The Federal Ministry of the Interior comprises the 
Public Security Authorities ( Police) and the  State Police. The  
Public Security Directorates,  Gendarmerie,  Security Police and the 
Federal Office for Asylum Seekers are under its control.

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The Federal Ministry of the Interior is located in the former Palais 
Modena in Herrengasse in the first district of Vienna.


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