Gustav Ortner

Gustav Ortner (* 1935 in Vienna ) is an Austrian diplomat .

Life

Gustav Ortner studied at the Vienna University for World Trade and received his doctorate there. From 1960 he was responsible for the Austrian Foreign Ministry in the protocol service. In 1962 he entered the diplomatic service and became an attaché in the Austrian embassy to the Holy See in Rome , and later secretary to Chancellor Josef Klaus in the Federal Chancellery . In the 1970s he was counselor or first counselor in the embassies in Paris and Tel Aviv .

From 1979 to 1988 Ortner was Director of the United Nations Security Council in New York and from 1979 to 1989 Deputy Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations . He was then Director of the Security and Political Committees Department in the UN Secretariat. From 1988 to 1996 he was chief of protocol at the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Vienna .

From 1997 until his retirement in 2001 Ortner was Austrian ambassador to the Holy See.

From 2001 to 2008 he was Vice President of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna ; since 2009 he has been President of the Senate. He is a member of the Presidium for Barbados in the umbrella organization of all Austrian-foreign societies - PaN and President of the Austrian Society of the Holy Land .

Awards and honors

• 1993: Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1995: Grand Cross of the Order de Isabel la Católica
• 1998: Admission to the Order of Constantine
• 1998: Honorary member of the Catholic student association KAV Capitolina Rome in the CV
• 2000: Grand Cross of the Papal Order of Pius
• 2001: Gold Medal for Services to the State of Vienna
• 2002: Honorary Chamberlain of the Pope (Gentiluomo di Sua Santitá)
• 2008: Great Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2012: Admission to the Brotherhood of Santa Maria dell'Anima ("Anima Brotherhood")

Memberships

• Arch brotherhood of Campo Santo Teutonico , Rome
• Congregazione Mariana del Jesú, Rome
• Member of the Sovereign Order of Malta
• Member of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem (Grand Officer; 2001)
• Member of the German Order

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
2. ↑ AAS 93 (2001), n.8, p. 563.
3. ↑ “Brauner honors former ambassador to the Holy See Dr. Ortner ” , City of Vienna , December 18, 2001
4. ↑ 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
Christoph Cornaro	Austrian Ambassador to the Holy See 1997–2001	Walter Greinert