Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff
Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff (born July 28, 1950 ) is an Austrian diplomat. He comes from the noble Austrian and Bohemian noble family Trauttmansdorff .
Education and career
From 1970 to 1971 Trauttmansdorff did the one year voluntary military service in Austria.
He then began the study of law at the University of Graz . After completing his studies, he did a year of military service with the UN forces in Cyprus . From 1975 to 1979 he worked as a study and contract assistant and later as a university assistant at the Institute for International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz.
He then began studying European law at the Collège d 'Europe in Bruges . With his training and previous professional career, he was able to join the Austrian Foreign Service in 1981 . In his first years in the Austrian Foreign Service, he worked as a consultant at the Austrian representation in Geneva . In 1985 he was first assigned to the Austrian embassy in Bucharest . From 1985 to 1986 he took maternity leave due to his political activities in the presidential election campaign .
In the following years he became a cultural councilor at the Austrian embassy in Washington, DC and then a first assignment at the embassy in Budapest . From 1999 to 2004 he was ambassador to Cairo and accredited to the government in Khartoum . From 2004 to 2005 he was ambassador to Lisbon . As head of the international law office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna, Trauttmansdorff was chairman of the Task Force for International Cooperation in Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research in 2008 and has been particularly connected to the Austrian memorial servants ever since .
From January 2010 until the end of 2015 Trauttmansdorff was the Austrian ambassador in Prague .
He is head of the Department of Diplomacy I at the Andrássy University of Budapest .
Honors
- 1996: Commander of the Order of the Holy Pope New Year's Eve
- 1999: Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2005: Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Merit
Individual evidence
- ^ "Honor for Austrian graduates of the memorial service or service abroad", Radio Prague, April 21, 2012
- ↑ Chair for Diplomacy I / AUB . In: Andrássy University Budapest . ( andrassyuni.eu [accessed March 12, 2018]).
- ↑ AAS 89 (1997), n.7, p. 517.
- ↑ 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 |
|---|---|---|
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Austrian Ambassador in Cairo 1999-2004 |
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| Alfred Missong jun. |
Austrian Ambassador in Lisbon 2004–2005 |
Edwald Jaeger |
| Margot Klestil-Löffler |
Austrian Ambassador in Prague 2010–2015 |
Alexander Grubmayr |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trauttmansdorff, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ambassador in Prague |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1950 |