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The Procurator General‘s Office
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Organisational structure of the Procurator General’s Office

 

The following (abridged) presentation offers a rough overview of the organisational structure within the Procurator General’s Office. At present, in addition to the Head of the Office, four section heads, known as Senior Deputy Procurator General, and fourteen substitutes of the Procurator General, known as Deputy Procurator General, as well as the administrative staff are employed in the Procurator General’s Office.

I. Head of the Procurator General’s Office

Procurator General Mag.a  Margit WACHBERGER

II. Sections 1 to 4

Sections 1 to 4 are headed by the Senior Deputies Procurator General who act as substitutes to the Head of Office as well as section heads. They are also responsible for internal auditing of sections 5 to 18.

Section 1

Mag. Ulrich KNIBBE, Senior Deputy Procurator General

Section 2

Mag. Alexander BAUER, Senior Deputy Procurator General

Section 3

Mag. Georg HÖPLER, Senior Deputy Procurator General

Section 4

Mag. Josef HOLZLEITHNER, Senior Deputy Procurator General

 

III. Other sections

Sections 5 to 18 are headed by Deputies Procurator General who are responsible for preparing opinions in appellate criminal proceedings before the Supreme Court (reference code “Gs“), in disciplinary proceedings against judges, notaries, lawyers, candidate lawyers (reference code “Gds”) and for settling matters as stipulated in sec. 23 para. 1, sec. 28 and sec. 362 para. 1 no. 2 StPO (“Gw“) as well as all other general matters (“Gn“). The cases are generally allocated to the individual sections by order of receipt. Specific matters under the Media Act as well as acts of defamation and violations of religious freedom are primarily allocated to section heads with expert knowledge.

Section 5

Dr. Silvia GEYMAYER, Deputy Procurator General

Section 6

Mag. Michael LEITNER, Deputy Procurator General

Section 7

Dr. Martin ULRICH, Deputy Procurator General

Section 8

Dr. Oliver JANDA, Deputy Procurator General

Section 9

Mag.a Julia GFÖLLER, Deputy Procurator General

Section 10

MMag.a Anna SAUTER-LONGITSCH, LL.M. (WU), Deputy Procurator General

Section 11

Mag. Ewald STANI, Deputy Procurator General

Section 12

MMag.a Claudia NORDMEYER, Deputy Procurator General

Section 13

Mag. Christoph SCHNEIDER, LL.M., Deputy Procurator General

Section 14

Mag.a Magdalena WEHOFER, Deputy Procurator General

Section 15

Mag. Frederic ARTNER, Deputy Procurator General

Section 16

Mag.a Alexandra RAMUSCH, LL.M., LL.M.(WU), Deputy Procurator General

Section 17

Dr. Barbara SCHREIBER, Deputy Procurator General

Section 18

Mag. Florian KRANZ, Deputy Procurator General

IV. Administrative office

Manager: Barbara GAL, Sarah LUKITSCH, Oana-Simona CRISAN

Administrative assistant: Oana-Simona CRISAN, Helena BOZIC

Senior administrative assistant: Claudia TOMASITS

Administrative assistant: Hannes MÄNNERSDORFER

assistant: Alexandra KRAMMER