List of Austrian ambassadors in Venezuela

Austrian Embassy Caracas Austrian Authority
State level	Federation
Position of the authority	Subordinate service ( foreign representation )
At sight	Foreign Ministry
founding	1964
Headquarters	Caracas -Las Mercedes, Avenida Orinoco, Torre D & D ⊙
Authority management	Gerhard Mayer
Website	on bmeia.gv.at

The list of Austrian ambassadors in Venezuela gives the ambassadors , the highest representatives, of the Republic of Austria in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela . The Ambassador is also in Antigua and Barbuda , Barbados , the Commonwealth of Dominica , the Dominican Republic , the State of Grenada , the Cooperative Republic of Guyana , the Republic of Haiti , the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint Lucia , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago , and also acts as the permanent representative of Austria to the Caribbean Community  (CARICOM). Its official seat is the Austrian Embassy in Caracas . ( Spanish Embajada de Austria en Caracas , English Austrian Embassy in Caracas )

history

Imperial Austria hardly had any special interests in the Caribbean, it was not a colonial power. Dynastic affairs such as in Brazil ( Empress Leopoldine ) and Mexico ( Emperor Maximilian ) remained short-term, and the revolutionary states were hostile to the imperial family, who thought absolutistically. Diplomatic relations were only established with Venezuela , which was founded in 1811, on July 28, 1947, and rapprochement only came about after 1955 , with the first mutual visits by high-ranking politicians. The same applies to Haiti (independent in 1804) and the Dominican Republic (split off from Haiti in 1844).

The embassy in Caracas opened in the fall of 1964. at the time there were only four Austrian embassies in South America.

The independence of Guyana followed in 1966, followed by the various Caribbean islands , which were given independence by the United Kingdom in the Commonwealth : 1962 Trinidad and Tobago , 1966 Barbados , 1974 Grenada (from the United States ), 1978 Dominica , 1979 St. Vincent and the Grenadines , 1981 Antigua and Barbuda , 1983 St. Kitts and Nevis . In 1973 the Caribbean Community  (CARICOM) was founded as an international organization based in Georgetown (Guyana) . The CARIFORUM was established in 1992 , and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States  (CELAC) in 2011 as the most important discussion partner, since Austria's accession to the EU, primarily at this level. The central basis today is the strategic cooperation between the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean, the EU-LAK process (EU-Latin America Summit, since 1999), the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 (COM (2000) 324), and the joint partnership strategy EU-Caribbean ( joint EU-Caribbean partnership strategy - JECS) of the 2012th

In addition, the Caribbean has been a priority region for Austrian Development Cooperation  (ADC) since 2007 , within the framework of which the regional office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  (UNOCHA) is supported. The Austrian Development Agency  (ADA), which implements ADC, does not have an office in this room.

A robbery at the embassy in 2006 caused a stir.

The announcement that the embassy would move to Bogota after 2015 was also criticized because of Venezuela's economic importance - especially as an OPEC member.

Austrian Embassy in Caracas

The headquarters of the Austrian Embassy Caracas is the Venezuelan capital Caracas , in Las Mercedes , in the Avenida Orinoco (entre Mucuchíes y Perijá), in the Torre D & D.

In addition to Venezuela and the Caribbean countries, the Dutch Caribbean Islands ( Aruba , Bonaire , Curacao , Saba , Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten ) also belong to the extended area of ​​responsibility (for which the embassy in The Hague is otherwise responsible for general issues ).

The message also includes:

• Embassy / Permanent Mission to the Caribbean Community (at the Caracas Embassy) - this office is also held by the Venezuelan Ambassador
• Foreign Trade Center Caracas (Trade Department of the Austrian Embassy Caracas, ibid.)
• Office of the Austrian Embassy Caracas in Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic (at the Swiss Embassy )

There are also consular representations ( honorary consulates ) in:

• Basseterre , St. Kitts (Consular District of St. Kitts and Nevis )
• Bridgetown , Barbados (Barbados Consular District)
• Castries , St. Lucia (Consular District St. Lucia)
• Five Islands near St. John’s , Antigua and Barbuda (Consular District Antigua and Barbuda )
• Georgetown , Guyana (Consular District of Guyana)
• Port-au-Prince , Haiti (Honorary Consulate General; Consular District Haiti)
• Saint George’s , Grenada (closed)
• Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic (Honorary Consulate General; Consular District Dominican Republic)
• Scarborough , Tobago ( Trinidad and Tobago Consular District )

List of Austrian ambassadors

List incomplete

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Austria  →  Antigua u. Barbuda , Barbados , Dominica , Dominican. Rep. , Grenada 1974, Guyana , Haiti , St. Kitts et al. Nevis , St. Lucia , St. Vincent ud Grenadines , Trinidad u. Tobago , Venezuela ; CARICOM
	...
Harald Gödel	1971-1976	before that Ambassador to Finland , Ambassador to Chile
	...
Alfred Missong jun.	1982-1986	before that ambassador to Mexico ; then in Portugal , Director Diplomatic Academy Vienna , OSCE Mission to Chechnya
	...
Erika Liebenwein	Jul. 1999-2004 (?)
Marianne Feldmann	2004-2008	before that ambassador to Colombia ; then at the BMeiA, ambassador in Brazil
Thomas Schuller-Götzburg	2008–2012	before that at various messages;
Gerhard Mayer	since Dec. 28, 2012	before that Deputy  Head of Mission in Argentina

See also

• List of Austrian ambassadors
• Venezuelan Embassy in Austria

Web links

• Homepage of the Austrian Embassy in Caracas (on bmeia.gv.at)
• Caribbean . Austrian Development Cooperation (Entwicklung.at)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ on this, for example: Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (-Hungary) 1720-1920. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 978-3-205-07269-0 , various pages;
   Elisabeth Zeilinger: Austria and the New World: Symposium in the Austrian National Library , proceedings, 1993, ISBN 978-3-01000010-9 ;
   Heinrich Drimmel: The Antipodes: the New World in the USA and Austria before 1918 Verlag Amalthea, 1984, ISBN 978-3-85002-194-4 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Austria: Bilateral relations with Venezuela . Embajada de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela en Austria, austria.gob.ve (accessed February 16, 2016).
3. ↑ Haiti was one of the only five countries in the world that did not respond at all to Austria's letter of recognition of neutrality in 1955. W. Hummer: Neutralität , 2007, p. 293; quoted According to Peter Hilpold: Solidarity and neutrality in the Treaty of Lisbon: with special consideration of the situation in Austria. Verlag facultas.wuv / maudrich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7089-0658-4 , p. 25, footnote 54 ( limited preview in Google book search).
4. ↑ Österreichisches Jahrbuch 1964, p. 9 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Latin America and the Caribbean . bmeia.gv.at → Foreign Policy (accessed February 22, 2016).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Latin America and the Caribbean . In: European Parliament: Fact Sheets on the European Union. esp. D. Caribbean (accessed February 14, 2016).
7. ↑ Development cooperation . Embassy Caracas; Caribbean . entwicklung.at (both accessed February 14, 2016).
   
8. ↑ Diplomat shot . newsv1.ORF.at, June 1, 2006; Austrian consul in Caracas who was shot and released from hospital . In: der Standard online, June 12, 2006.
9. ↑ Kurz sticks in the face of savings . In: Wiener Zeitung online, September 10, 2015.
10. ↑ Postal address: Apartado 61.381, Caracas 1060-A
11. ↑ Economía de Austria en Venezuela . advantageaustria.org
12. ^ Embajada de Suiza, Ave. Jimenez Moya 71 (Churchill esq. Desiderio Arias)
13. ^ Victoria Road
14. ^ Knowlton, Exeter Road, Navy Gardens Gap
15. ^ Cap Estate
16. ↑ Coconut Beach Club ( Yepton Beach )
17. ↑ 106 Laluni & New Garden Streets, Queenstown
18. ↑ Impasse Guercy # 8 A, Rue Rosa, Canape Vert
19. ↑ temporarily closed (as of early 2016)
20. ↑ Autopista Duarte km 11, opposite "Alfareria"
21. ↑ Blue Haven Hotel, Robinson Crusoe Beach Resort Ltd., Bacolet
22. ↑ Embajada de Venezuela en Austria (austria.gob.ve)