Johannes Kyrle

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Johannes Kyrle

Johannes Kyrle (born July 30, 1948 in Vienna ; † January 13, 2018 ) was an Austrian diplomat.

Life

Johannes Kyrle was the eldest son of the doctor and university professor Paul Kyrle and his wife Martha Kyrle (née Schärf). His brother Paul Alexander Kyrle is a university professor for internal medicine at the Vienna General Hospital. The politician and later Federal President Adolf Schärf was his grandfather. The Carinthian Hollenburg Castle belongs to the Kyrle family .

Kyrle studied law at the University of Vienna from 1966 to 1970 . From 1973 he worked in the foreign service. After taking his diplomatic examination in 1975, he worked in the economic policy section of the Foreign Ministry. Later he moved to the general secretariat. Afterwards Kyrle belonged to the cabinet of Foreign Ministers Erich Bielka , Willibald Pahr , Erwin Lanc and Leopold Gratz . From 1985 to 1996 he was Deputy Head of Cabinet for Foreign Ministers Peter Jankowitsch , Alois Mock and Wolfgang Schüssel . In 1997 he was appointed head of the protocol department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition to these tasks, he was also the non-resident ambassador for the Principality of Liechtenstein from 1991 to 2002, based in Vienna. In 2002 he succeeded Albert Rohan as Secretary General in the Foreign Ministry, a post held by Kyrle under Foreign Ministers Benita Ferrero-Waldner , Ursula Plassnik and Michael Spindelegger . He retired at the end of 2013. Michael Linhart was his successor as General Secretary .

From 2015 he headed the Austro-French Center. Furthermore, at the time of his death, he was a member of the board of the Austrian Society for Foreign Policy and the United Nations (ÖGAVN).

Kyrle was married and had three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kyrle replaces Rohan as General Secretary , January 8, 2002, News.at
  2. ↑ a b Ex-Secretary General in the Foreign Office Johannes Kyrle died (January 13th , 2018 ) , January 16, 2018, website of the French Embassy in Vienna
  3. ↑ a b Austria's first First Lady Martha Kyrle died. , July 19, 2017, kurier.at
  4. ^ Press release by the President of the ÖGAVN Wolfgang Schüssel , APA-OTS
personal data
SURNAME Kyrle, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2018