Heinrich Schmid (diplomat)

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Heinrich Schmid (born March 17, 1888 in Vienna ; † November 27, 1968 there ) was an Austrian ambassador .

Life

Heinrich Schmid attended the K. uk consular academy from 1906 to 1911. From 1911 to 1912 he was in the military. On December 23, 1912, he entered the foreign service and was consular attache in Skopje in 1913 and vice-consul in Shkodra and Vlora in 1914 . In 1918 he became an attaché at the legation in Bucharest . From 1919 to 1921 he was employed in the Foreign Ministry in Vienna. From 1922 to 1933 he was Legarionsrat in Paris , where from 1932 to 1933 d'affaires was. From 1933 to 1935 he was envoy in Bern . From 1935 to 1937 he was envoy to Belgrade . From 1937 to 1938 he was envoy in Warsaw . With the annexation of Austria , the law to restore the civil service was also applied there and Schmid was made available. In 1945 he was employed in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Federal Chancellery.

He was a permanent representative to the Soviet delegation of the Allied Control Commission, from February 1946 political representative, envoy in London and from September 1947 to 1950 he was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s .

From 1951 he was Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire in Paris, where he was Henri D. Schmid's ambassador from 1951 to 1953.

On July 6, 1953 he was appointed head of the liaison office of the Austrian government in Bonn, where he was accredited from September 14, 1953 to March 10, 1954.

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Individual evidence

  1. Rudolf Agstner , FROM CHANDOS HOUSE TO BELGRAVE SQUARE in communications from the Austrian State Archives: Volume 45, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv - 1997, p. 45
predecessor Office successor
Alfred Grünberger Austrian chargé d'affaires in France
1932–1933
Otto Günther
Austrian envoy in Bern
1933–1935
Erich Bielka
Hermann Polenies Austrian envoy to Serbia
1935–1937
Lothar Wimmer
Max Hoffinger Austrian envoy to Poland
1937–1938
Maximilian Attems-Heiligenkreuz
Georg Albert from and to Franckenstein Austrian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1946–1950
Lothar Wimmer
Otto Günther Austrian ambassador in Paris
1951–1953
Alois Vollgruber
Josef Schöner Head of the Austrian Liaison Office in Bonn
1953–1954
Adrian Rotter