List of ambassadors of Austria to Germany

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Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Germany
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Incumbent
Michael Linhart
since 2022
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of Austria, Berlin
Style His Excellency
Website Austrian Embassy, Berlin

The Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Germany is the Republic of Austria's foremost diplomatic representative in Germany. As head of Austria's diplomatic mission there, the ambassador is the official representative of the president and government of Austria to the Cabinet of Germany. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and the embassy is located in Berlin. [1]

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History

In the last phase of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806), Austria sent an embassy (1662 to 1806) to the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg. After the Confederation of the Rhine (1806–1813) and the Congress of Vienna (1815), this was followed by an embassy to the German Confederation (1815–1866), in which 35 sovereign princes and four free cities had joined forces.

From 1815 to 1866, Austria sent diplomatic representatives to the Federal Convention ( Bundestag ) of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1871 to the Imperial Court of the German Empire in Berlin.

In addition, some of the Habsburg embassies founded in the 16th century in individual German states continued to exist until the 1920s.

Heads of Mission

Ambassador to the German Confederation

Since the Austrian Empire was a member state of the German Confederation, it was not represented in the sense of a foreign state. Like the other members, Austria sent a representative to the Federal Convention. According to the Federal Act, the Austrian representative presided over the Federal Convention and conducted its affairs. Austria was therefore called the "Bundespräsidium" (roughly chairman of the federation). In practice, this was more of an honorary title.

In parallel to the representative in the Federal Convention, there was also temporarily an Austrian embassy to the Free City of Frankfurt.

Appointed /
Accredited		NameTitle/notesAppointed duringAccredited duringLeft post
October 5, 1815 Franz Joseph von Albini German Confederation December 16, 1815
December 16, 1815 Johann Rudolf von Buol-Schauenstein February 24, 1823
February 24, 1823 Joachim Eduard von Münch-Bellinghausen March 12, 1848
March 12, 1848 Franz von Colloredo-Wallsee May 14, 1848
May 14, 1848 Anton von Schmerling Later Interior Minister of the Austrian Empire July 12, 1848
September 1848 Karl Ludwig von Bruck Later Finance Minister of the Austrian Empire Provisional Central Power October 1, 1848
April 29, 1850 Friedrich von Thun und Hohenstein German Confederation November 1, 1852
January 2, 1853 Anton Prokesch von Osten October 12, 1855
October 12, 1855 Bernhard von Rechberg May 4, 1859
May 23, 1859 Alois Kübeck von Kübau August 24, 1866

Ambassador to the German Empire

Emmerich Szechenyi Szechenyi Imre-Pollak.jpg
Emmerich Széchényi

Austro-Hungarian ambassador (until 1918) and envoy of the First Republic of Austria (from 1919) to the government of the German Empire (until 1918), the Weimar Republic (from 1919) and National Socialist Germany (from 1933).

Appointed /
Accredited		NameTitle/notesAppointed duringAccredited duringLeft post
December 10, 1871 Alajos Károlyi Ambassador Franz Joseph I William I November 3, 1878
December 27, 1878 Emmerich Széchényi AmbassadorOctober 10, 1892
October 24, 1892 Ladislaus von Szögyény-Marich AmbassadorAugust 4, 1914
August 4, 1914 Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Ambassador William II November 11, 1918
November 25, 1918 Ludwig Moritz Hartmann Envoy Karl Renner Council of the People's Deputies November 1, 1920
July 2, 1921 Richard Riedl Envoy Michael Mayr Constantin Fehrenbach June 30, 1925
June 29, 1925 Felix Frank Envoy Rudolf Ramek Hans Luther November 30, 1932
November 30, 1932 Josef Meindl Chargé d'Affaires Karl Buresch Papen cabinet March 11, 1933
March 23, 1933 Stephan Tauschitz Engelbert Dollfuß Hitler cabinet March 13, 1938

Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

The villa at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 14 in the Bonn district of Gronau, built in the 1920s , served as the residence of the Austrian Ambassador to Germany from 1955 to 1999. 2013-04-21 Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 14-16, Bonn IMG 0129.jpg
The villa at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 14 in the Bonn district of Gronau, built in the 1920s , served as the residence of the Austrian Ambassador to Germany from 1955 to 1999.

Ambassador of the Second Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1950 in Bonn, since 1999 in Berlin.

AppointedAccreditedNameTitle/notesAppointed duringAccredited duringLeft post
June 1, 1950May 25, 1950 Josef Schöner Head of the Liaison Office Leopold Figl First Adenauer cabinet June 28, 1953
July 6, 1953September 14, 1953 Heinrich Schmid Head of the Liaison Office Julius Raab March 10, 1954
March 15, 1954March 31, 1954 Adrian Rotter Second Adenauer cabinet March 10, 1955
November 29, 1955January 6, 1956 Adrian Rotter AmbassadorMarch 22, 1958
April 1, 1958April 18, 1958 Josef Schöner Third Adenauer cabinet January 31, 1966
February 7, 1966February 17, 1966 Karl Gruber Josef Klaus Second Erhard cabinet May 1, 1966
July 20, 1966July 29, 1966 Rudolf Ender Josef Klaus July 29, 1970
November 30, 1970December 15, 1970 Willfried Gredler Bruno Kreisky First Brandt cabinet December 20, 1977
November 21, 1977January 6, 1978 Franz Pein Second Schmidt cabinet July 25, 1983
August 17, 1983August 30, 1983 Willibald Pahr Fred Sinowatz Second Kohl cabinet December 31, 1991
January 22, 1986January 30, 1986 Friedrich Bauer [2] October 5, 1990
October 9, 1990October 10, 1990 Herbert Grubmayr [3] Franz Vranitzky Third Kohl cabinet January 23, 1993
January 28, 1993February 3, 1993 Fritz Hoess [4] Fourth Kohl cabinet December 26, 1997
January 9, 1998February 16, 1998 Markus Lutterotti Bonn office [5] Viktor Klima Fifth Kohl cabinet August 12, 1999
August 13, 1999Markus LutterottiBerlin [5] First Schröder cabinet November 16, 2002
2003 Christian Prosl [6] Wolfgang Schüssel Second Schröder cabinet 2009
December 12, 2009 Ralph Scheide [7] Werner Faymann First Merkel cabinet 2015
January 2015February 17, 2015 Nikolaus Marschik [8] Second Merkel cabinet 2017
September 2017December 15, 2017 Peter Huber [9] Christian Kern Third Merkel cabinet 2022
April 2022June 21, 2022 Michael Linhart Former Foreign Minister [10] [11] Karl Nehammer Scholz cabinet

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References

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  2. ↑ Taylor, Stephen (1996). Who's who in Austria. Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company. p. 784. ISBN   978-88-85246-30-0 . Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  3. ↑ Peaceworks. The Institute. 1995. p. 39. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  4. ↑ Austrian Information. 1985. p. 1. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  5. 1 2 Cede, Franz; Prosl, Christian (7 December 2016). Ambition and Reality: Austria's Foreign Policy since 1945 (in German). StudienVerlag. p. 177. ISBN   978-3-7065-5863-1 . Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  6. ↑ Editorial (February 4, 2011). "Diplomatic Dance: Awards and Heroic Feats Draft". Washington Life Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  7. ↑ Schröter, Gottfried (1 August 2024). Berlin - I love you. Novum Publishing. p. 152. ISBN   978-1-64268-779-8 . Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  8. ↑ Österreich, Außenministerium der Republik. "Nikolaus Marschik Appointed as New Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry". www.bmeia.gv.at. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  9. ↑ "Peter Huber". humanitariancongress.at (in German). Humanitarian Congress Vienna. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  10. ↑ Bennhold, Katrin (17 October 2021). "Fake Polls and Tabloid Coverage on Demand: The Dark Side of Sebastian Kurz". The New York Times . Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  11. ↑ Österreich, Außenministerium der Republik. "Das Botschaftsteam". www.bmeia.gv.at (in Austrian German). Retrieved 17 January 2025.
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