List of Austrian ambassadors in Syria

The Austrian embassy is located in the Immeuble Sabri Malik in Damascus . Damascus was looked after by a vice consulate that was subordinate to the consulate general in Cairo until 1850 .

Bartholomäus von Stürmer was Internuntius in Constantinople from 1834 to 1850 kk . After the return of the province of Syria under the full sovereignty of Abdülmecid I , he proposed in a letter dated April 21, 1841 to Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich to set up a consulate general in Damascus.

Damascus was looked after by a vice consulate under the consulate general in Beirut until 1931 . The Syrian Republic in the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon led to an upgrade to honorary consulate.

From 1955 to 1978 the ambassador in Beirut was also regularly accredited to the government in Damascus. In 1978 an embassy was opened in Damascus.

Heads of mission

Consuls

Appointed / Accredited	Surname	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited during government	Leave post
1836	Caspar Merlato	Caspar Merlato called Giovanni (* 1798; † 1882), Italian captain of the merchant fleet, Honorary Consul under Consul General in Cairo 1838–1847: Anton von Laurin (* 1790 in Vipava ; † 1869). Damascus affair	Ferdinand I.	Mahmud II	1841
1847	unoccupied			Abdülmecid I.
July 18, 1850	Georg Pfäffinger	Consul in Damascus and Trieste, Bavarian subject	Franz Joseph I.
May 8, 1870	Johann Bertrand	Johann from 1875 Jean Bertrand		Abdülaziz	1895
1912	Carl Ranzi	Jur. Dr., Austro-Hungarian Vice Consul in Shkodra and later Austro-Hungarian Consul in Ioannina 1903–1907 Consul in Valona		Mehmed V.	1918
1929	Ernst Gutmann	(* December 13, 1895) businessman, honorary vice-consul	Johann Schober	Taj ad-Din al-Hasani	1931
1931	Ernst Gutmann	Honorary Consul	Otto Ender		March 1938

ambassador

Ambassadors were:

Appointed / Accredited	Surname	Remarks	appointed during the reign of	accredited during government	Leave post
1955	Kurt Farbowsky	Official seat in Beirut	Julius Raab	Shukri al-Quwatli	1959
1977	Georg Mautner-Markhof Junior	(* October 14, 1946 in Salzburg ) Chargé d'affaires son of Georg Mautner Markhof Opening of the Damascus embassy	Bruno Kreisky	Hafiz al-Assad	1978
1983	Herbert Grubmayr		Fred Sinowatz		1985
1986	Josef Magerl				1988
1994	Robert Karas		Franz Vranitzky		1996
2000	Michael Linhart	at the same time personal advisor to the Federal Chancellor on foreign policy issues	Wolfgang bowl	Bashar al-Assad	2003
2003	Karl Schramek	1996 head of the international office of the SPÖ			Nov 10, 2008
Nov 10, 2008	Maria Kunz		Werner Faymann
Feb 14, 2012	Isabel Rauscher				2017
Nov 2017	Hans-Peter Glanzer		Sebastian Kurz

See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors

Individual notes

1. ↑ Engelbert Deusch: The kuk Kultusprotektorat in the Albanian settlement area . P. 45
2. ↑ 1847: Tripoli di Barbari a. Mr. Caspar Merlato, general agent
3. ↑ Thomas Kletecka, Anatol Schmied-Kowarzik, Protocols of the Austrian Council of Ministers 1848–1867. 2005, p. 165
4. ^ Edited in the kk Ministry of Commerce, Austria. Archive for Consular Affairs, Economic Legislation and Statistics, Volume 22, Vienna, 1870, p. 441
5. ^ Embassy - Damascus Foreign Ministry Austria
6. ↑ Georg Mautner-Markhof ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Maria Kunz
8. ↑ Isabel Rauscher, Foreign Ministry: Decision of the Council of Ministers on filling management positions abroad  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.