Alfons Knaffl-Lenz

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Alfons Knaffl-Lenz (until 1919 Knaffl-Lenz Ritter von Fohnsdorf ; born December 31, 1878 in Graz , † April 21, 1957 Salzburg ) was an Austrian diplomat.

Life

Alfons Knaffl-Lenz studied at the University of Graz and was active in the Corps Joannea in 1901 . He joined the foreign service in 1911. From 1913 to 1914 he was employed in Rio de Janeiro . From 1914 to 1919 he was employed in Madrid . From December 28, 1919 to November 28, 1921 he was chargé d'affaires in Warsaw in the Second Polish Republic . Alfons Knaffl-Lenz was the chairman of the Austrian colonization society.

In 1928 he headed the political department of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. From 1928 to 1931 he was ambassador to Buenos Aires and was accredited to the governments of Santiago de Chile , Asunción and Montevideo .

He is buried in the St. Leonhard cemetery in Graz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 49 , 120
  2. ^ Arnold Suppan, Yugoslavia and Austria 1918-1938 , p. 324
  3. ^ Rudolf Agstner , Von Kaisern, Konsuln und Kaufleuten - Austria and the Ukraine 1785-2010, p. 185 FN 486
predecessor Office successor
Leopold Andrian Austrian Ambassador in Warsaw
December 28, 1919 to November 28, 1921 		Nikolaus Post
1911–1918 Otto von Hoenning O'Carroll Austrian Ambassador in Buenos Aires
July 1928 to 1931
Anton Retschek Austrian ambassador in Santiago de Chile in
1931 		Anton Retschek
personal data
SURNAME Knaffl-Lenz, Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knaffl-Lenz, Alphons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1957
Place of death Salzburg