| Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Germany | |
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 Coat of arms of Austria | |
_(cropped).jpg) IncumbentMichael 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.
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 |
Name | Title/notes | Appointed during | Accredited during | Left 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
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 |
Name | Title/notes | Appointed during | Accredited during | Left post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 10, 1871 | Alajos Károlyi | Ambassador | Franz Joseph I | William I | November 3, 1878 |
| December 27, 1878 | Emmerich Széchényi | Ambassador | October 10, 1892 | ||
| October 24, 1892 | Ladislaus von Szögyény-Marich | Ambassador | August 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
Ambassador of the Second Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1950 in Bonn, since 1999 in Berlin.
| Appointed | Accredited | Name | Title/notes | Appointed during | Accredited during | Left post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1, 1950 | May 25, 1950 | Josef Schöner | Head of the Liaison Office | Leopold Figl | First Adenauer cabinet | June 28, 1953 |
| July 6, 1953 | September 14, 1953 | Heinrich Schmid | Head of the Liaison Office | Julius Raab | March 10, 1954 | |
| March 15, 1954 | March 31, 1954 | Adrian Rotter | Second Adenauer cabinet | March 10, 1955 | ||
| November 29, 1955 | January 6, 1956 | Adrian Rotter | Ambassador | March 22, 1958 | ||
| April 1, 1958 | April 18, 1958 | Josef Schöner | Third Adenauer cabinet | January 31, 1966 | ||
| February 7, 1966 | February 17, 1966 | Karl Gruber | Josef Klaus | Second Erhard cabinet | May 1, 1966 | |
| July 20, 1966 | July 29, 1966 | Rudolf Ender | Josef Klaus | July 29, 1970 | ||
| November 30, 1970 | December 15, 1970 | Willfried Gredler | Bruno Kreisky | First Brandt cabinet | December 20, 1977 | |
| November 21, 1977 | January 6, 1978 | Franz Pein | Second Schmidt cabinet | July 25, 1983 | ||
| August 17, 1983 | August 30, 1983 | Willibald Pahr | Fred Sinowatz | Second Kohl cabinet | December 31, 1991 | |
| January 22, 1986 | January 30, 1986 | Friedrich Bauer | October 5, 1990 | |||
| October 9, 1990 | October 10, 1990 | Herbert Grubmayr | Franz Vranitzky | Third Kohl cabinet | January 23, 1993 | |
| January 28, 1993 | February 3, 1993 | Fritz Hoess | Fourth Kohl cabinet | December 26, 1997 | ||
| January 9, 1998 | February 16, 1998 | Markus Lutterotti | Bonn office | Viktor Klima | Fifth Kohl cabinet | August 12, 1999 |
| August 13, 1999 | Markus Lutterotti | Berlin | First Schröder cabinet | November 16, 2002 | ||
| 2003 | Christian Prosl | Wolfgang Schüssel | Second Schröder cabinet | 2009 | ||
| December 12, 2009 | Ralph Scheide | Werner Faymann | First Merkel cabinet | 2015 | ||
| January 2015 | February 17, 2015 | Nikolaus Marschik | Second Merkel cabinet | 2017 | ||
| September 2017 | December 15, 2017 | Peter Huber | Christian Kern | Third Merkel cabinet | 2022 | |
| April 2022 | June 21, 2022 | Michael Linhart | Former Foreign Minister | Karl Nehammer | Scholz cabinet |
See also
References
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