Adolf Heinrich Hobel

Adolf Heinrich Hobel (born May 28, 1910 in Vienna ; † May 27, 1995 there ) was an Austrian diplomat .

Life

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Adolf Heinrich Hobel was the son of Maria Bink and Adolf Johannes Hobel. He studied economics at the University of Vienna , received his doctorate, was a tax officer in 1933 and married Edith Leltner in 1959.

From 1954 to 1958 he was ambassador to Sofia . From 1960 to 1964 he was ambassador to Helsinki . On March 19, 1964 he was appointed ambassador to Pretoria , where he was accredited from March 25, 1964 to January 5, 1968. From 1972 to 1973 he was ambassador to Santiago de Chile . The government of Bruno Kreisky supported the government of Salvador Allende "only very reluctantly". At the time of the coup in Chile in 1973, there were close diplomatic relations, three people with diplomatic status worked in the Austrian embassy in Santiago de Chile, and no more were employed in any Latin American embassy in Austria at the time.

In an SPÖ party council resolution, the putsch was "condemned with disgust and expressed the certainty that the oppressed Chile will chase away the generals and their foreign monopoly capitalist accomplices in order to be able to continue on the path of socialism". In realpolitical terms, Austria routinely continued diplomatic relations with Chile: Adolf Hobel was temporarily retained in his post as ambassador to safeguard Austrian interests, he also formally confirmed the receipt of the note with which the diplomatic mission in Chile officially informed of the change in power has been.

Bruno Kreisky declared that diplomatic relations with Chile should not be broken off, since these relations are not between governments, "but relations between countries and peoples regardless of the ruling regime." Such a practice would not have existed, especially with regard to the Latin American countries, since conditions there often changed and it would then take a long time before relations were re-established.

A few weeks after the coup it became known that Adolf Hobel did not grant asylum to those politically persecuted by the military regime in the Austrian embassy.

“In the case of Chile there was a very strong movement among the European states to give individuals who felt or were persecuted the right to stay temporarily at the embassy. Our embassy in Chile, which was instructed to grant this asylum in special cases, proceeded from a different fundamental interpretation than the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had "

- Rudolf Kirchschläger

Hobel was recalled due to his hesitant attitude and replaced by a special envoy. Austria had already decided in the coup to grant asylum to those politically persecuted from Chile.

Hobel was buried at the Ottakringer Friedhof in Vienna.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Austrian Latin America Institute, 1988, Journal for Latin America: Issues 35-43, p. 44

predecessor	Office	successor
Oliver Resseguier	Austrian ambassador in Sofia from 1954 to 1958	Ludwig Steiner
Harald Gödel	Austrian ambassador in Helsinki 1960 to 1964	Erich Pichler
Franz Rader	Austrian ambassador in Pretoria 1964 to 1968	Paul Zedtwitz
Friedrich Hohenbühel	Austrian ambassador in Santiago de Chile 1972 to 1973	Paul Leifer