Hans Dietmar Schweisgut

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Hans Dietmar Schweisgut (born March 16, 1951 in Zams ) is a retired Austrian diplomat .

Life

Schweisgut studied law in Innsbruck and Salzburg. He earned a Master of Comparative Law from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, and then attended the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna . In 1977 he joined the foreign service and from 1979 to 1983 he was Secretary of the Embassy at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York. Between 1983 and 1987 he worked for the State Secretary and later Minister (Transport and Finance) Ferdinand Lacina . Schweisgut then worked at the Austrian embassy in Tokyo . From 1991 to 1999 he was Section Head for EU and International Affairs in the Federal Ministry of Finance . From 1999 to 2003 Schweisgut was Austrian ambassador to Japan and then from 2003 to 2007 Austrian ambassador to the People's Republic of China. From 2007 to 2010 he was the Austrian EU ambassador in Brussels. On September 15, 2010, the EU Foreign Affairs Representative Catherine Ashton announced that he would take over as head of the European Union delegation in Japan . Schweisgut's successor as permanent representative of Austria to the European Union was Walter Grahammer on January 11, 2011 .

From September 2014 to August 2018, Schweisgut headed the delegation of the European Union in the People's Republic of China and Mongolia, based in Beijing.

Since February 2019, Schweisgut has been Secretary General of the Austro-French Center for Rapprochement in Europe based in Vienna. He is also a board member of the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and the United Nations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austria's new man in Brussels . Der Standard , March 17, 2007.
  2. ↑ Hans Dietmar Schweisgut: Not only those who know Japan on business. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .
  3. ↑ About the EU Delegation in China ( Memento from July 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ team | ÖFZ. Retrieved January 18, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Schweisgut, Hans Dietmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Zams