Lujo Tončić-Sorinj

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Lujo Tončić-Sorinj

Lujo Tončić-Sorinj (born April 12, 1915 in Vienna ; † May 20, 2005 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian diplomat and politician ( ÖVP ). From 1966 to 1968 he was Austrian Foreign Minister , from 1969 to 1974 Secretary General of the Council of Europe .

Life

Lujo Tončić-Sorinj was a grandson of Josip Tončić , who was ennobled in 1911 as the "Noble of Sorinj" and who was the deputy imperial governor in Dalmatia . After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the family went to the nobility repeal Act 1919, the ennoblement lost. The father of Lujo Tončić-Sorinj was consul in Jeddah (Jeddah), his maternal grandfather was Adolf Ritter von Plason de la Woestyne, court and ministerial advisor in the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry.

Lujo Tončić-Sorinj attended a humanistic high school in Salzburg . After studying law, philosophy and the history of Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Zagreb , he taught languages ​​in the German Wehrmacht's air intelligence service during the Second World War .

From 1945 Tončić-Sorinj was head of the political department of the Austrian Institute for Economics and Politics in Salzburg, a member of the Austrian UNESCO Commission and the Austrian delegation to the Advisory Assembly of the Council of Europe . From November 8, 1949 to June 5, 1966 he was a member of the National Council for the ÖVP , and from April 19, 1966 to January 19, 1968, Foreign Minister in the ÖVP government under Chancellor Josef Klaus . The content of the South Tyrol package was designed and negotiated under his aegis . With the expansion from 90 to 136 competencies for the South Tyrolean provincial government ("package"), which he achieved in intensive negotiations, as well as the establishment of a so-called "operation calendar", also accepted by Italy, to implement and guarantee these commitments, Toncic-Sorinj is considered the father of Autonomy solution for South Tyrol. Based on his work, the solution path for South Tyrol was consistently and successfully brought to a close under his successor, Foreign Minister Kurt Waldheim.

Other focal points of his work include the expansion of multilateral relations between Austria and the Council of Europe and the United Nations (including the establishment of the UN organizations UNIDO and IAEA in Vienna), the development of new basic lines for Austrian foreign policy towards the Danube countries, and strengthening relations with the four signatory powers of the Austrian State Treaty and the neighboring Austrian states, in particular the Czechoslovak Republic and Yugoslavia, as well as the elaboration of new guidelines for Austrian policy towards the Near and Far East, Latin America and Africa.

From 1969 to 1974 Tončić-Sorinj held the office of Secretary General of the Council of Europe .

Tončić-Sorinj made an important contribution to the recognition of Croatia's independence from June 1990 by representing the Croatian government in Europe and to the European institutions.

In 1992 he applied for Croatian citizenship "out of connection with Dalmatia" . After some time, however, the government of the time refused to grant him permission for dual citizenship, which was quite common according to the legal situation at the time, which meant that he should lose his Austrian citizenship and his pension. Lujo Tončić-Sorinj was able to remain an Austrian after presenting documents proving the illegality of the acquired Croatian citizenship.

Appreciation

“Tončić-Sorinj [was] a model and role model for me [...]. Due to his family origins and his education in Vienna, Zagreb and Paris, he has always seen Europe in its entirety and lived this whole. "

- President of the National Council Andreas Khol : Honoring Tončić-Sorinj on the occasion of his death , 2005.

Works

  • 1982: dreams come true. Croatia. Austria. Europe. , Amalthea Verlag, Vienna
  • 1988: Albania. The size and tragedy of the skipedaries. , Knoth Verlag, Melle
  • 1991: past the abyss. Overcoming the disasters of the 20th century. , Julius Raab Foundation for Research and Education and Political Academy, Vienna
  • 1998: Usamljena borba Hrvatske: Od pobjede jezika do pobjede oružja , Hrvatska sveucilisna naklada / Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb
  • 2002: The world of the Croatians at the beginning of the third millennium , Ulricke Šulek publishing house, Brühl

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William D. Godsey: Aristocratic Redoubt: The Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the Eve of the First World War. USA, 1999, p. 38ff.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Meier-Walser: The foreign policy of the monochrome Klaus government in Austria 1966-1970. Munich, 1988, p. 132ff.
  3. ↑ Michael Gehler: Austria's Foreign Policy of the Second Republic: Volume 1. Innsbruck, 2005, p. 325ff.
  4. ^ Lujo Tončić-Sorinj: The world of the Croatians at the beginning of the third millennium. Brühl, 2002, p. 132 and p. 141ff.
  5. ↑ a b Former Foreign Minister Toncic-Sorinj died in Standard from May 23, 2005, accessed on February 9, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Tončić-Sorinj, Lujo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat and politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council and Secretary General of the Council of Europe
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2005
Place of death Salzburg