List of Austrian ambassadors and envoys in France

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This list of Austrian envoys or ambassadors in France is a list of the highest diplomatic representatives of the Habsburg Monarchy , then the Austrian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy , today the Republic of Austria in France ( Kingdom of France , First French Republic , First Empire , Restored and the Civil Kingdom , French Second Republic , Second French Empire and today's Republic of France ).

Today the Austrian ambassador is also accredited for the Principality of Monaco .

history

Envoys from the Viennese court appeared as early as the 16th century, but France and the burgeoning Habsburg Empire were often decidedly hostile to one another, as the end of the Italian wars showed that the two states had opposing hegemonic interests. These escalated in the War of the Spanish Succession , when the House of Bourbon ousted Habsburg from Spain, and France found a bitter opponent in Philipp Ludwig von Sinzendorf , Chancellor from Joseph I to Maria Theresa . There was a permanent diplomatic mission in Paris from 1679.

In 1756, in the run-up to the Seven Years' War, the Renversement des alliances (the reversal of alliances) came about when Prussia tried to join the four-power constellation France-Great Britain-Austria-Russia. The central figure was the Austrian ambassador in Paris from 1750, Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz , the two countries, with the tsarist empire, formed a camp against England and Prussia. The French ambassador to the Viennese court, Florimond Claude von Mercy-Argenteau , strengthened these relationships.

With the French Revolution of 1789, the coalition wars against the French Empire , when Napoleon Bonaparte's troops later temporarily advanced to Vienna and with the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire , animosity came up again.

On July 1, 1810, the Paris embassy, ​​where Napoleon's wedding to Marie-Louise of Austria was celebrated, was the scene of a devastating fire. The event, which claimed numerous victims among the present high nobility of Europe and to the fireworks accident at the wedding of Louis XVI. remembered with Marie-Antoinette in 1770, was seen by superstitious people as a bad omen for the next few years. Until the First World War France appeared as an opponent of Austria. The diplomatic mission established in 1679 was elevated to the status of an embassy in 1856 in accordance with the diplomatic customs of the 19th century.

During the First World War France took part in the dissolution of Austria-Hungary , after the Second World War France, as a victorious power, also occupied parts of Austria .

In both wars, however, the countries were not face to face, and General Antoine Béthouart , French Commander-in-Chief and High Commissioner in Austria, was seen as a figure of reconciliation in the French zone of occupation .

With Austria's neutrality in 1955 and especially since Austria joined the EU in 1995, relations between France and Austria are consistently friendly. There are no longer any bilateral sources of conflict between the two states.

Heads of mission

Habsburg ambassadors (until 1804)

Until 1801, the ambassadors of the Viennese court were on the road both for imperial matters and for the Habsburg monarchy . The envoys working for Austrian state policy are listed here.

1679: Establishment of diplomatic relations

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1733 to 1736: interruption of diplomatic relations

1744 to 1749: Break in diplomatic relations as a result of the War of the Austrian Succession

Kk Austrian ambassador

The Hôtel Matignon at 57 Rue de Varenne in Paris , Austrian embassy until 1914

1805 to 1806: break in relations

1813 to 1814: break in relations

Kuk Austro-Hungarian ambassador

Austrian Ambassador (since 1919)

Today's Austrian Embassy at 6 Rue Fabert in Paris

1919: Establishment of diplomatic relations

  • 1919–1925: Johann Andreas von Eichhoff (born September 27, 1871 in Vienna; † March 22, 1963 ibid) Plenipotentiary to the Supreme Council and to the French government, from September 3, 1920 envoy and plenipotentiary minister in Paris.
  • 1925–1932: Alfred Grünberger , associate envoy and bev. Minister of Austria in Paris and Madrid
  • 1932-1933: Heinrich Schmid , chargé
  • 1933–1933: Otto Günther (* 1884; † 1970), 1945–1949 chief of protocol at the BKA-AA
  • 1933–1936:
  • 1936–1938: Alois Vollgruber

1938 to 1945 no diplomatic relations as a result of the "Anschluss" and the Second World War

1945 to 1955 no official diplomatic missions abroad by Austria as a result of the occupation (diplomatic contacts via the high commissioner of France , from 1950 also ambassador ). Contact diplomats were:

  • 1946: Norbert Bischof as representative of the Austrian government to the government in Paris
    ... (sketchy)

Resumption of relations after the restoration of Austria

See also

literature

Bibliography:

Web links

Commons : Austrian Embassy Paris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  • 1685–1740: Andreas Pečar : The economy of honor. Courtly nobility at the imperial court of Charles VI . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2003, p. 48.
  • 1699–1789: Albert Sorel : La Question d'Orient au XVIII. siècle . 1878.
  1. ↑ a b Austria in France . Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs: Homepage of the Austrian Embassy in Paris.
  2. ^ A b Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (-Hungary) 1720-1920 . Böhlau Verlag , Vienna 1986, p. 114 f .
  3. ↑ questionable, perhaps Johann Christoph Gf. Althan (1633–1706), chief stable master and land hunter master, cf. Althann
  4. ↑ a b Johann Friedrich von Seilern (* 1646, † 1715), cf. Martin Haidinger: Missed great opportunity. Joseph I. and the "Young Court". In: Dimensions - the world of science , Feature, Ö1, broadcast on Thursday, December 29, 2011, 7:05 pm ( ORF program archive )
  5. ↑ Count Wenzel Ferdinand Popel von Lobkowitz zu Bilin (Bílina, † 1697), from Popel's line to Bilin, Count June 21, 1670; cf. Booger von Lobkowitz
  6. ↑ probably Johann Peter Freiherr / Graf von Goëss (* 1667; † 13 March (?) 1716), Count 1693, 1698 imperial and royal Spanish envoy to the States General, authorized minister at the peace congresses in Rastatt and Baden 1714, see Heinrich Ritter von Zeißberg:  Goëß, Johann Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 323-326. see. Goëss (noble family)
  7. ↑ a b Baron Johann Christoph von Pentenriedter (* ?, † July 20, 1728)
  8. ^ Reichsfürst Stephan Wilhelm Kinsky (* December 26, 1679, † March 12, 1749), I. Prince Wchinitz and Tettau.
  9. ^ Franz Paul Zigeuner von Blumendorf, (* 1738, † 1826); see. Michael Hochedlinger (ed.): The way to war. The reports of Franz Paul Zigeuner von Blumendorf, kk chargé d'affaires in Paris 1790–1792 (= Fontes rerum Austriacarum 2nd Dept. Diplomataria et acta 90), Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1999 (= State examination work Institute for Austrian Historical Research 1992), ISBN 3-7001-2773-1 .
  10. ^ Hanns Schlitter:  Vincent, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 732-734.
  11. ^ Constantin von Wurzbach : Apponyi, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 57 ( digitized version ).
  12. ↑ ohio.edu
  13. ^ Rudolf Graf Apponyi von Nagy-Appony (1812–1876), Ambassador December 13, 1871–30. April 1876
  14. ^ A b Felix Graf Wimpffen (* March 16, 1827, † December 30, 1882 in Paris by suicide), Austrian envoy to Rome, 1876–1880 ambassador to Paris, 1880–1882 back in Rome, 1882 back in Paris; Son of General Franz Emil Lorenz Wimpffen
  15. ↑ Ladislaus Graf von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein (1834–1901), Ambassador April 27, 1883 - October 28, 1894
  16. ^ Rudolf Graf von Khevenhüller-Metsch (1844-1910), Ambassador December 10, 1903 - October 20, 1910
  17. ↑ Josef Schöner : Vienna Diary . P. 474
  18. ↑ (* 1890; † 1976) Alois Vollgruber in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  19. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 54 du 3 mars 1950, p. 2423.
  20. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 302 du 22 December 1951, p. 12683.
  21. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 165 du 16 juillet 1953, p. 6303.
  22. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 105 du 6 may 1958, p. 4431.
  23. ↑ Martin Fuchs (born September 26, 1903 in Vienna, † October 1, 1969), diplomat and resistance fighter, see Fuchs Martin , Nachlätze in Österreich - Personenlexikon, OENB
  24. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 99 du 25 avril 1962, p. 4251.
  25. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 157 du 5 juillet 1969, p. 6860.
  26. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 145 du 22 juin 1972, p. 6364.
  27. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 221 du 20 septembre 1974, p. 9715.
  28. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 100 du 29 avril 1983, p. 1315.
  29. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 55 du 5 mars 1988, p. 3007, NOR MAEP8850001E.
  30. ↑ biographical information in The Secretaries General of the IV from 1946 to 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federation of Industrialists @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iv-net.at
  31. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 78 du 3 avril 1997, p. 5110, NOR MAEP9750017G.
  32. ↑ remise de lettres de créance . In: JORF n ° 46 du 23 février 2002, p. 3470, text n ° 1, NOR MAEP0250005G.