Karl Fischer (diplomat, 1922)

Karl Ingmar Roman Fischer (born March 2, 1922 in Graz ) is an Austrian diplomat . He was an ambassador and a functionary in several United Nations bodies .

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Karl Ingmar Roman Fischer attended an elementary and high school in Graz. In 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served until 1945. After the end of the war, he studied law at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1949. Fischer joined the civil service at the Federal Chancellery. He headed the Foreign Affairs Section (International Law Office, Legal Department, Political Department); In 1952 he became Secretary of State Secretary and later Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky .

His career ran between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Service: from 1953 to 1955 he was Legation Secretary and interim Chargé d'Affaires at the embassies in Lisbon and Washington . 1960-1963 he was Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Foreign Ministry under Kreisky ( Cabinet Raab III ); from 1964 to 1968 counselor at the Austrian embassy in Paris , to which he was appointed ambassador in 1968. In 1970 he took over the management of the department for bilateral economic as well as bilateral and multilateral transport matters in the BMAA under Kurt Waldheim ( Klaus II government ).

Between 1974 and 1979 he was Austrian ambassador to Sweden , in 1979 head of cabinet of the Foreign Ministry and in 1982 deputy general secretary for foreign affairs - both under Willibald Pahr in the federal government Kreisky IV . In 1981 he became ambassador to the Principality of Liechtenstein based in Vienna.

In 1982 Fischer received the post of Head of Mission of the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York . His rank was that of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, assigned to the United Nations as an official. From 1984 he was Vice-President of the 37th  General Assembly of the United Nations , President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations , member and later Chairman of the Administrative Council of the International Peace Academy (Peace Academy) . On December 31, 1988, Karl Ingmar Roman Fischer retired . From 1990 he was honorary vice-president of the Austrian UNICEF committee .

literature

• Otto M. Maschke, Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library. Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies: Austrian National History after 1945: Seen with Different Eyes . Ed .: Robert Kriechbaumer, Oliver Rathkolb. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99105-2 , authors , p. 904 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - Short CV).

Web links

• Fischer Karl Ingmar Roman Dr. iur. , Entry in Hübner's Who is Who: Who is Who in Austria (short curriculum vitae, accessed in January 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ^ International Peace Academy