List of Austrian ambassadors in South Africa
The list of diplomatic missions in South Africa gives the ambassadors , the highest representatives, of the Republic of Austria in the Republic of South Africa ( Republic of South Africa , Afrikaans Republiek van Suid-Afrika, etc.). The embassy also covers the Republic of Angola , the Republic of Botswana , the Kingdom of Lesotho , the Republic of Madagascar , the Republic of Mauritius , the Republic of Mozambique , the Republic of Namibia , the Republic of Zimbabwe and the Kingdom of Eswatini .
history
There has been an embassy in South Africa since 1955. Its area of office includes a number of countries in southern Africa for which there is no separate embassy.
The Consulate General in South Africa was based in Cape Town (Cape Town; consular district: Western Cape Province ) and was closed at the end of October 2010.
The Austrian embassy in Harare was closed on January 1, 2012 for security reasons, and its area of responsibility was divided between the embassies in Pretoria and Nairobi , which means that Pretoria has also taken over the representation for Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola.
The Austrian Embassy Pretoria
The embassy is located in the capital Pretoria , 0181 Brooklyn at 454A Fehrsen Street.
There are also consular representations ( honorary consulates ) in:
- Durban (Consular District: Province Kwa-Zulu / Natal )
- Johannesburg (Consular District: Gauteng , Mpumalanga , Northern Province , Northwest Province , Free State )
- Port Elizabeth (Consular District: Eastern Cape )
- Luanda , Angola
- Gaborone , Botswana
- Antananarivo , Madagascar
- Port Louis , Mauritius
- Maputo , Mozambique
- Windhoek , Namibia
Other offices are:
- Development Coordination Office Maputo , Mozambique
List of Austrian ambassadors
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks | |
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 Austria → South Africa ( Botswana , Lesotho , Madagascar , Mauritius , Namibia , Swaziland )      
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| Wilhelm Goertz | 1955-1959 | ||
| Eduard Schiller | 1959-1962 | ||
| Franz Rader | 1962-1964 | Envoy a. i from December 29, 1962 to March 18, 1964 | |
| Adolf Heinrich Hobel | 1964-1968 | previously ambassador in Bulgaria and in Finland ; then in Chile | |
| Paul Zedtwitz | 1968-1972 | before Counselor and Charge d'Affaires in the United States , in Chile , in Ethiopia ; then in Algeria | |
| Ernst Hessenberger | 1972-1975 | ||
| Arnold Möbius | 1975-1979 | ||
| Michael Fitz . | 1979-1983 | ||
| Johann Plattner | 1983-1986 | ||
| Alexander Christiani | 1986-1990 | before that head of the department for the Near and Middle East in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Member d. Delegation to the General Assembly of the UN, Ambassador to England , the Netherlands | |
| Arnold Möbius | 1990-1994 | 2. Term of office | |
| Franz Palla | 1994-1999 | ||
| Kurt Spallinger | 1999-2003 | ||
| Helmut Freudenschuss | 2003-2008 | before that from 1985 member d. Stg. Represent. at the UN New York and Alternating Representative in the Security Council, 1993 Head of Division II.1a Coordination of the BMaA; 1994 European correspondent, 1999–2004 ambassador to Lebanon ; then Head of Department II.11 Sub-Saharan Africa BMeiA, 2011 Foreign Policy Advisor to the Federal President | |
| Otto Ditz | 2008–2012 | since January 2012 also Austria → Zimbabwe , Angola , Mozambique   
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| Before 1995–1999 Ambassador to Saudi Arabia , 2001 Head of Group VI.A Real Estate Management , Housing and Equipment of the BMaA, 2004–2008 Ambassador to Canada with Jamaica | |||
| Brigitte Öppinger-Walchshofer | 2013-2017 | before that Ambassador to Ethiopia and Stg. Represent. at the AU , 2007–2011 Head of Austrian Development Cooperation | |
| Johann Brieger | since 2018 | before that Ambassador to Kosovo (2011-2015), deputy Head of the service section in the ambassadorial rank, east. Permanent representative at the IACA and member of the ADA supervisory board | |
- Source: BMeiA, status 11/2018
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Austrian Embassy South Africa (at bmeia.gv.at; also: www.austrianembassy.co.za)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Ambassador, with Former Austrian Ambassador in Pretoria. bmeia.gv.at: Website of ÖB Pretoria
- ^ Protea Hotel Sea Point , Arthur's Road, Sea Point 8005, Cape Town
- ↑ a b The message. In: bmeia.gv.at. Retrieved January 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs: Directory of the Austrian representation authorities , p. 173 (pdf, bmeia.gv.at → Citizens Service , as of January 17, 2012; 510 kB)
- ↑ Postal address: POBox 95572, Waterkloof 0145
- ^ Edificio JAT-4, Av. Zedequias Manganhela No. 267, 4th floor, Maputo
