!!!Verteidigungsministerium, Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung

Defence, Ministry of, official name: Federal Ministry for National 
Defence; before 1918 k. u. k. (Royal and Imperial War 
Ministry ( Kriegsministerium) for the whole of the Austro-Hungarian 
Monarchy, and also Ministry of National Defence for the Austrian part 
and by analogy for the Hungarian half of the Empire; 1918-1920: State 
Office for the Army; 1920-1936: Federal Ministry of the Army; 
1936-1938: Federal Ministry of National Defence. In 1945, national 
defence was entrusted to an Under-State Secretary for Military Affairs 
at the State Chancellery (27 April, 1945-20 December, 1945). From 20 
December, 1945 to 14 July, 1956, the formation of  Federal Armed 
Forces was in the hands of the Office for National Defence, which was 
then a section of the Federal Chancellery. The Federal Ministry for 
National Defence was created on 15 July, 1956.

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The Ministry of Defence is sub-divided into 4 sections and the General 
Troops Inspectorate (which also has section status) and deals with the 
following in particular: command, arms and equipment, military 
technology, military building and construction and all other matters 
relevant to the military sector. The Ministry of Defence has a number 
of subordinate offices and commands, such as the  Museum of Military 
History and the military hospital.  Armed Forces, Austrian.


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