Margot Klestil-Löffler

Margot Klestil-Löffler with the Russian President Medvedev, 2010

Margot Klestil-Löffler (born March 4, 1954 in Dobersberg , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian diplomat . She is the widow of the former Austrian President Thomas Klestil .

After diplomatic positions in Moscow and Bangkok, Margot Löffler was appointed to work in the office of the then Secretary General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Thomas Klestil. In 1992, in Klestil's first election as Federal President, she led his election campaign and then moved with the new Federal President from the Foreign Ministry to the Presidential Chancellery .

During Thomas Klestil's first term in office, her relationship with the still married president became public, which cost Klestil a lot of sympathy in Austria's conservative camp. Edith Klestil separated from her husband in January 1994; the marriage was divorced in September 1998. On December 23, 1998, Margot Löffler and Thomas Klestil married.

During her time as " First Lady " she remained an official in the Austrian Foreign Ministry - initially as head of the Secretary General's office, then as head of the Department for America.

After Klestils death on 6 July 2004, two days before the expiry of his second term as president, it was in September of the same year by President Heinz Fischer to the proposal of the Federal Government dish II to the ambassador of Austria in the Czech Republic appointed.

In 2009 she was appointed Austrian ambassador to the Russian Federation to Moscow by the Federal President at the suggestion of the Federal Government Faymann I and worked until the end of 2014. Since April 1, 2015, she has been working as alternate general secretary of the Central European Initiative in Trieste

Awards

In September 2009 Klestil-Löffler received the " Silver Commander's Cross of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria ". She is also the holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austrian Ambassador Klestil-Löffler moves to Moscow ( Memento from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Radio Prague from March 18, 2009, accessed on April 17, 2009.
2. ↑ Contacts of the CEI , accessed on October 11, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Margot Klestil-Löffler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Margot Klestil-Löffler in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Klas Daublebsky	Austrian Ambassador in Prague 2004–2009	Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff
Martin Vukovich	Austrian Ambassador in Moscow 2009–2014	Emil Brix