Karl Linienissen

Karl Ritterzeileissen von Hergetenstein (born November 9, 1895 in Vienna , † October 13, 1955 in Schruns ), was an Austrian and German diplomat and consul in the foreign service .

Life

Karl Lineissen was the son of Dr. jur. Karl Ritterzeileissen von Hergetenstein (1862–1915) and his wife Helena Rosina born. Herget (* 1867). His grandfather was the district captain of Karlsbad Johann Mießl Ritter vonzeileissen, who on July 26, 1883 received his status as an Austrian knight from the emperor. The male line of the family descended from the middle-class Mießl family from Platten in Bohemia .

From 1914 to 1921 he studied at the consular academy . After serving in the war from 1915 to 1917 with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve , he was in the foreign service from 1920 to 1925 envoy in Prague and from 1925 to 1930 envoy in London . From 1937 to 1938 he was a member of the cabinet of Foreign Minister Guido Schmidt . From 1941 to 1942 he was head of the German consulate in Crete and from 1942 to 1943 head of the consular section of the German office in Athens . From 1944 to 1945 he worked in the card file archive in the personnel department. After the war he worked for the Austrian Foreign Service and lastly from 1951 to 1955 envoy in Stockholm .

His brother was the Austrian landscape and portrait painter Rudolf Lineissen .

literature

Rudolf Agstner: Handbook of the Austrian Foreign Service . Volume 1: 1918-1938 , p. 457
Anton Pelinka, Gunter Bischof, Michael Gehler: Austrian Foreign Policy in Historical Context , Routledge, 2017

Web links

http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID=3890154

Individual evidence

↑ Oliver Rathkolb: 250 years: from the Oriental to the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna . Studien Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7065-1921-2 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Lineiss, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Linienissen Ritter von Hergetenstein, Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian and German diplomat and consul in the foreign service
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	October 13, 1955
Place of death	Schruns

[1] Oliver Rathkolb: 250 years: from the Oriental to the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna . Studien Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7065-1921-2 ( google.de [accessed March 7, 2018]).