After the fall of the Austrian monarchy in 1918, the need for an Austrian embassy in Czechoslovakia arose . In 1919 Ferdinand Marek was commissioned to set up a diplomatic mission in Prague. On April 11, 1922, he handed over to the Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk certification as the Austrian envoy. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the embassy was closed. Im Marek stayed in Prague and tried to rebuild. With the approval of the provisional Czechoslovak government , he resumed his work on May 12, 1945 immediately after the end of the war. He was arrested by the Soviet occupiers in May and died in Moscow custody in 1947. The embassy building served as accommodation for refugees to Austria during this time.
After the crackdown on the Prague Spring by Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968, the then ambassador and later Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger issued thousands of exit visas to Czechoslovak citizens, contrary to instructions from Vienna.
Locations and organization
residence
The diplomatic mission and the consulate are located at Viktora Huga 10, in the Smíchov district . The building, erected at the end of the 19th century, has been owned by the Republic of Austria since 1922.
The residence is located in the Hložek Palace in Žampach at Kanovnická 4.
Prague
