Federal Chancellery of Austria

Federal Chancellery
Bundeskanzleramt
Agency overview
Formed1742 (as building)
1920 (as agency)
JurisdictionGovernment of Austria
StatusMinistry and venue for cabinet sessions
HeadquartersBallhausplatz 2
Innere Stadt, Vienna
Annual budget€311 million (2019)[1]
Chancellor responsible
Agency executives
  • Federal Minister
  • Ines Stilling
Websitewww.bka.gv.at

The Federal Chancellery of Austria (German: Bundeskanzleramt, abbreviated BKA; historically also Hofkanzlei[2][3] and Staatskanzlei[4][5]) is the ministry led by the chancellor of Austria.[6][7][8][9] Since the establishment of the First Austrian Republic in 1918, the Chancellery building has served as the venue for the sessions of the Austrian cabinet. It is located on the Ballhausplatz in the centre of Vienna, vis-à-vis the Hofburg Imperial Palace. Like Downing Street, Quai d'Orsay or – formerly – Wilhelmstrasse, the address has become a synecdoche for governmental power.

  1. ^ "Bundesfinanzgesetz 2019" (PDF).
  2. ^ Adamovich 1947, pp. 7, 45.
  3. ^ Hoke 1996, p. 232.
  4. ^ Adamovich 1947, p. 190.
  5. ^ Brauneder 2009, p. 200.
  6. ^ B-VG, Art. 77 (3).
  7. ^ BMinG, §1.
  8. ^ Berka 2016, Rz 716.
  9. ^ Öhlinger 2007, Rz 511.