List of Austrian ambassadors in South Korea

The bilateral relations between the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the Kingdom of Korea were formally established with the signing of a friendship, trade and shipping treaty on June 23, 1892. This contract also provided for the establishment of consular agencies, but no embassy was opened (Korea was co-accredited by the kuk embassy in Tokyo). The Austrian original of the contract is in the house, court and state archives in Vienna, the Korean original document is considered lost.

After the Second World War , diplomatic relations between the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Korea were formally established on October 18, 1963. Until 1985, the respective Austrian head of mission in Tokyo was also accredited in the Republic of Korea. In 1969 an Austrian honorary consulate was established in Seoul , a resident commercial agency in 1975, and a resident Austrian embassy in Seoul only opened in 1985 .

Since 2012 (starting with Josef Müllner), the Austrian ambassador in Seoul has also been accredited in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (previously Austrian Embassy Beijing).

List of names of the resident Austrian ambassadors in Seoul

• 1985–1989 Peter Moser (born June 28, 1941 in Vienna)
• 1989–1993 Felix Mikl (born June 26, 1941 in Klagenfurt)
• 1994–1997 Horst Mezzei (born July 15, 1934 in Vienna)
• 1997–2001 Ewald Jäger (born January 4, 1944 in Krems an der Donau)
• 2001–2005 Helmut Böck (born April 14, 1956 in Innsbruck)
• 2005–2009 Wilhelm Donko (born December 16, 1960 in Linz on the Danube)
• 2009–2013 Josef Müllner (born January 7, 1952 in Wiener Neustadt)
• 2013–2017 Elisabeth Bertagnoli (born March 16, 1961 in Vienna)
• since September 2017 Michael Schwarzinger (born June 10, 1955 in Feldkirch)

See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lee, Sang-Kyong (ed.): Austria - Korea: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary . WUV-Univ.-Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85114-139-3 .
2. ↑ Rudolf Agstner, Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Michaela Follner: Austria's top diplomats between Kaiser and Kreisky: biographical handbook of diplomats of the higher foreign service 1918 to 1959 . Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902575-23-4 .