Chancellor of Austria |Federal Chancellor of the Republic of
Austria State flag of Austria as President of Austria |Term
length||No term limit| |Inaugural holder||Karl Renner, as State
Chancellor 30 October 1918 |Formation||First Republic of Austria
10 November 1920 |This article is part of the series: Politics
and government of The Federal Chancellor (German: Bundeskanzler,
sometimes shortened to Kanzler) is the head of government of
Austria. In his capacity as chairman of the Austrian Federal
Government, the chancellor represents the supreme federal
authority of the executive branch. Though formally an equal
member of the cabinet, the Chancellor is considered to be the
most powerful position in Austrian politics, and as such is the
nation's de facto chief executive. His official seat is in the
Federal Chancellery. The use of the term Chancellor (Kanzler,
derived from Latin: cancellarius) as head of the chancery
writing office can be traced back as far as the ninth century,
when under King Louis the German t