Austrian Embassy in Bucharest
The Austrian Embassy in Bucharest is the permanent diplomatic representation of the Republic of Austria in Romania .
History of the Austrian diplomatic mission in Romania
The k. u. k. Until 1918 the embassy in Romania was located in a palace at Strada Vienei No. 9 (today Strada Dobrescu I. Demetru, near Piaţa Revoluţiei). Karl Emil Prinz zu Fürstenberg and his successor Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz were the last Austrian-Hungarian ambassadors in Romania from October 25, 1913 to August 27, 1916 (then Foreign Minister 1916 to 1918). As a result of the state of war between Austria-Hungary and Romania, the post was not filled. After the First World War , the entire building was returned to Austria and Hungary in 1922. In 1935 the property was divided into real estate, which had been used jointly by both parties until then. During the Second World War , the building fell to the German Reich and was also used by its “Special Representative for Economic Issues”. After the end of the war, Romania confiscated all German property and kept it available to the Soviet Union for any reparation claims.
In 1945 the Austrian-Romanian relations were resumed. Legation councilor Herbert Schmidt, Austria's first political representative after the Second World War, had to start work in a temporary office on Bulevardul Republicii, which also housed a rented apartment. For a long time Vienna insisted in vain for the removal of this tenant party and even considered temporarily closing the representation. From 1953 to 1956 the representation worked under unsatisfactory circumstances in Strada Dimitrie Obrescu No. 7. In 1955, after the Austrian representation had been elevated to the rank of embassy, Romania made the current embassy building in Strada Dumbrava Roşie available. In January 1957, ownership rights were transferred to the Republic of Austria against a waiver of the claims to the house in Strada Dobrescu I. Demetru. The building was constructed by the influential Romanian drug importer Cameniţa for his family and those of his brother.
Organization and locations of the diplomatic missions
The embassy building in Bucharest , sector 2, Strada Dumbrava Roşie nr. 7, houses the residence , diplomatic mission , consulate , cultural forum as well as offices of the defense and agricultural attaché and a liaison office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior . The Austrian Foreign Trade Center (trade department of the embassy) is located not far from the embassy in a separate building in Strada Logofătul Luca Strioci nr. 15th
Austria also maintains honorary consulates in Timisoara (Strada Mărăşeşti no. 7, Ap. 2) and in Sibiu (Strada General Magheru no. 4).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ (Grandfather of the Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg )
- ↑ Rudolf Agstner: Von Kaisern und Konsuln II, Austrian Embassy Addis Abeba Occasional Paper 1/2009, "... in a completely inadequate way housed on a rental basis ..." - Notes on the ubication of Austrian representation authorities 1918–1959, pp. 68–72.
Coordinates: 44 ° 26 ′ 42 ″ N , 26 ° 6 ′ 19.1 ″ E
