Gerhard Reiweger

Gerhard Reiweger (born October 10, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian diplomat . From 2010 to 2014 he was the Austrian ambassador to Bulgaria and from October 2014 to October 2017 the Austrian ambassador to Romania .

Life

Gerhard Reiweger attended the Admont Abbey High School until 1971 and then did his military service . He completed a degree in German and English at the University of Vienna in 1978 with a master's degree . From 1979 to 1983 he was AHS teacher at the Bundesgymnasium Wien 14.

He is married and has two children.

Diplomatic career

From 1983 to 1985 Gerhard Reiweger attended the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna , of which he was deputy director from 1997 to 2009. His first assignment in the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (BMaA) was from 1985 to 1987 as a speaker in the Politics and Foreign Culture sections. During this time he did a six-month internship as an attaché at the Austrian embassy in Morocco . At the embassy in Washington, DC , he was counselor for economic and financial matters from 1987 to 1992, and then until 1995 deputy head of mission at the embassy in Stockholm . From 1995 to 1997 he was Deputy Head of the Department for International Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He had his first appointment as ambassador in 2010. He succeeded Klaus Fabjan as the Austrian ambassador in Sofia . On October 1, 2014, he was replaced there by Roland Hauser . Since October 21, 2014, Gerhard Reiweger has been Michael Schwarzinger's successor as Ambassador in Bucharest . From November 2014 until the opening of the first Austrian embassy there in July 2016, Ambassador Reiweger was co-accredited in the Republic of Moldova . His successor as ambassador to Romania was Isabel Rauscher in 2017 .

Publications

• as editor: Public Diplomacy . Diplomatic Academy Vienna, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-902021-38-1 .

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Austrian Foreign Ministry

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV on diplomacy.edu (English)