List of Austrian ambassadors in Poland

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Poland was a kingdom until 1795 , whose king was in personal union with the Electorate of Saxony from 1697 to 1763 . There was no sovereign Polish state between 1795 and 1921.

The Austrian ambassador resides in the Polish capital Warsaw .

Heads of mission

Envoy to the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Appointed / Accredited Surname Remarks appointed during the reign of accredited during government Leave post
1517 Siegmund von Herberstein Maximilian I. Sigismund I.
1589 Andrew of Jerin 1596
1655 Franz von Lisola Maximilian II John II Casimir 1660
1662 Franz von Lisola 1665
1678 Michael Wenzel von Althann 1682–1683 envoy in Stockholm 1679
1700 Heinrich Johann Franz von Strattmann 1691–1693 ambassador to London Leopold I. August II 1705
1702 analogous to Saxony 1763
1710 Johann Ernst von Herberstein Joseph I. 1711
1720 Adam Erdody Charles VI
1722 Joseph Lothar von Königsegg-Rothenfels
1723 Franz Karl von Mitrowitz
1729 Heinrich Wenzel von Wilczek 1732
Aug 19, 1733 Heinrich Wenzel von Wilczek Heinrich Wilhelm Graf Wilczek (1665-1739) was used on several diplomatic missions, so to Czar Peter the Great in Moscow regarding the Rakoczy'schen rebellion, later he was envoy to the court in Warsaw. 1736
1747 Miklós Esterházy de Galántha envoy extraordinary Maria Theresa August III.
1763 Gottfried van Swieten 1764
Feb 15, 1764 Gottfried von Swieten Stanislaus II August Poniatowski Aug 4, 1764
1764 Florimond Claude by Mercy-Argenteau Envoy
1765 - Sep 7 1772
Sep 7 1772 Karl Emeryk Aleksander Reviczky from Revisnye Nov 6, 1779
Nov 6, 1779 Benedict de Caché Envoy 28 Aug 1780
28 Aug 1780 Johann Amadeus Franz von Thugut Jan. 28, 1783
Jan. 28, 1782 Benedict de Caché Charge d'Affaires , the end of the relationship with the departure of Benedict de Caché Joseph II July 1, 1794
July 1, 1794 third partitions of Poland Francis II Dec 28, 1919

With the Treaty of Saint Petersburg of August 5, 1772 between Austria, Russia and Prussia and that of January 23, 1793 between Russia and Prussia, Poland lost most of its territory to the partitioning powers. By the third Petersburg Treaty of October 24, 1795, the rest of the kingdom was divided between Austria, Russia and Prussia.

When the third partition of Poland the kk traveled chargé Benedict de Caché on July 1, 1794 secretly from Warsaw. On June 7, 1794 he had received leave for a cure in Karlsbad ,

“To get away from Pohlen with a good kind of thing. The pretext of vacation will provide the opportunity and efficiency to accomplish this without much ado and compromising steps. Given the change in circumstances there, I can only rely on your caution and prudence about the Quomodo. "

- Johann : Amadeus Franz von Thugut

Thugut, who was in Poland until recently ambassador, advised his former legation secretary, "is to decorous dling of about foreseeable proprieties" with the Prussian ambassador "to concert irish" and agreed to the Polish charge d'affaires not to let rather depart from Vienna, "Until you have heard of your unhindered departure across the Pohlniche border". When Thugut had heard from Caché's reports of July 1 and 8, 1794 his "happy departure from Warsaw and arrival in Thorn with pleasure", he remarked, "... Your conduct during the ugly appearances that have taken place in Warsaw since April deserves the complete approval ... "

Ambassador to the Republic of Poland

Appointed / Accredited Surname Remarks appointed during the reign of accredited during government Leave post
1914 Leopold Andrian Consul General in Warsaw, Germany Franz Joseph I. Wilhelm II. 1917
Dec 28, 1919 Alfons Knaffl-Lenz Michael Mayr Józef Pilsudski Nov 28, 1921
Nov 28, 1921 Nikolaus Post Michael Mayr 1931
Dec 1932 Max Hoffinger Son of Rudolf and Harriet Hoffinger Engelbert Dollfuss Oct. 1936
1937 Heinrich Schmid Kurt Schuschnigg Ignacy Moscicki 1938
1938 Maximilian Attems-Heiligenkreuz Arthur Seyss-Inquart
1946 Wilhelm Engert Leopold Figl Boleslaw Bierut 1949
1950 Walter Conrad-Eybesfeld 1954
1954 Hermann Gohn Julius Raab Aleksander Zawadzki 1956
1956 Stephan Verosta 1961
1962 Kurt Enderl Josef Klaus Edward Ochab 1967
1975 Friedrich Zanetti Bruno Kreisky Henryk Jablonski 1982
2006 Alfred Längle Wolfgang bowl Lech Kaczynski 25 Sep 2009
25 Sep 2009 Herbert Krauss Werner Faymann Oct. 2013
Oct. 2013 Thomas M. Boxwood 2017
Nov 7, 2017 Werner Almhofer Christian Kern Andrzej Duda

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See also

Individual notes

  1. ↑ Konstantin von Jerin (arr.): Bishop Andreas von Jerin, Emperor Rudolph II. Envoy to Poland 1589–1596 . Documented according to the files of the KK Haus-Hof- u. Vienna State Archives, Verlag F. Bär, Neisse 1900
  2. ^ Photo (Nicolas Post fourth from right) , audiovis.nac.gov.pl.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ The ambassador. (No longer available online.) In: Austrian Embassy Warsaw. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014 ; accessed on January 19, 2020 .
  5. ^ New Austrian ambassador in Warsaw
  6. ^ After Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (Hungary) 1720–1920 . P. 112