Christian Prosl

Christian Prosl (born August 21, 1946 in Eisenstadt , Austria ) is an Austrian diplomat who was Austrian Ambassador to the United States of America from 2009 to 2011 .

Life

Christian Prosl attended the Lycée Français de Vienne and then the Theresianum in Vienna. He then studied law and French at the University of Vienna . He then did military service and also the Jagdkommando basic course. This was followed by postgraduate studies at the Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva.

From 1973 to 1977 Prosl worked for the UNDP United Nations Development Program in Burkina Faso and Rwanda. In 1977 he joined the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs . Among other things, he was Consul General in Los Angeles , Deputy Secretary General in the State Department and Head of the Consular Section. From 2003 to 2009 Prosl was Ambassador of the Republic of Austria in the Federal Republic of Germany , then until November 2011 he was Austrian Ambassador in Washington, DC , USA.

Christian Prosl is married and has two sons.

Publications

Guest comments in Austrian newspapers ("Die Presse", "Der Standard") and articles in magazines ("Conturen")
"Public Diplomacy", in: "Favorita Papers" of the Diplomatic Academy, Vienna, 01/2004
"Adventurer against his will", translation from the French - memoirs of Willy Klein, publishing house for east. Student history, Vienna, 2004
"My Saturday belongs to my wife" (self-published, Berlin, 2006)
"Deadly Romanticism - The Legitimist Corps Ottonen", publishing house for east. Student history, Vienna, 2008
"Fritz Hoess: Austrians - Europeans - Diplomat" (Ed.), Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and Federation of Industrialists, Vienna 2009
with Franz Cede : “Claim and Reality - Austria's Foreign Policy since 1945”. StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7065-5430-5 .
"Austria 1934 - playing with fire. Attempting a differentiated view", Michael Dippelreiter, Christian Prosl (ed.), Wieser Verlag, Vienna 2015
with Franz Cede: "Ambition and Reality - Austria's Foreign Policy since 1945", StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Wien / Bozen, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7065-5523-4
with Ludwig Adamovich a. Franz Cede (Ed.) "The Austrian Federal President - the underestimated office". StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7065-5646-0

Awards

1996: Commandeur de l ' Ordre de la Couronne , Belgium
1997: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

2012: Great Silver Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Afraid of Islam? (pdf) Retrieved August 26, 2014 .
↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Markus Lutterotti	Austrian Ambassador in Berlin 2003–2009	Ralph Scheide
Eva Nowotny	Austrian Ambassador in Washington 2009–2011	Hans Peter Manz

personal data
SURNAME	Prosl, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian ambassador to the USA
DATE OF BIRTH	August 21, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Afraid of Islam? (pdf) Retrieved August 26, 2014 .

[2] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)