Eckart Ratz

Austrian jurist

Eckart Ratz


Minister of the Interior
In office 22 May – 3 June 2019
Chancellor	Sebastian Kurz
Preceded by	Herbert Kickl
Succeeded by	Wolfgang Peschorn
President of the Supreme Court of Justice
In office 1 January 2012 – 1 July 2018
Preceded by	Irmgard Griss
Succeeded by	Elisabeth Lovrek
Vice President of the Supreme Court of Justice
In office 9 March 2011 – 1 January 2012
President	Irmgard Griss

Personal details
Born	(1953-06-28) 28 June 1953 (age 70) Bregenz, Austria

Eckart Ratz (born 28 June 1953) is an Austrian jurist who served as a judge and the president of the Supreme Court of Justice. From 2011 to 2012 he was a vice president of the Supreme Court.^[1]
On 22 May 2019, he was appointed Austrian minister of the interior, replacing Herbert Kickl who had been dismissed from office by President Alexander Van der Bellen. Originally, Ratz was going to serve as a cabinet minister of the transitional government until the General Elections in fall 2019; however, the entire second Kurz government was ousted by a vote of no-confidence, after it lost support in parliament by the former coalition partner FPÖ.