Martin Weiss (diplomat)

Martin Weiss in 2012 at the General Assembly of European Municipal Councils

Martin Weiss (born December 31, 1962 ) is an Austrian diplomat . Weiss is currently the Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the United States at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC

education

Martin Weiss attended the Academic Gymnasium in Salzburg , where he graduated from high school in 1981 . He then began studying law at the Universities of Graz and Vienna . In 1986 he graduated as a Magister iuris (Mag. Iur.) At the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna . In the following two years he also worked as an assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law with Professors Heinz Mayer and Robert Walter . In 1988 Weiss changed his place of residence due to studies and moved to the United States of America for a year , where he attended the School of Law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . He obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from this university in 1989 .

Curriculum Vitae

In 1990, Martin Weiss joined the Austrian Foreign Ministry in its Asia and America department for the first time . In 1991 he was appointed human rights attaché at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York City . From 1991 to 1992 he was again active in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked in its General Directorate. In 1992 Weiss took leave of absence from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and during this time supported his diplomatic colleague Thomas Klestil in preparing for his - ultimately successful - candidacy for the election of Austrian Federal President . In 1993 he returned to the diplomatic service and became Secretary of State for Political Affairs at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC

In 1994 Martin Weiss was again on leave of absence from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and during this time he headed Walter Wolfsberger's office in the Austrian Federation of Industrialists in preparation for the referendum in Austria on joining the European Union . From 1995 to 1997 he was subsequently in the cabinet of the Minister for Economic Affairs of the Republic of Austria (during the term of office of Johannes Ditz and Johann Farnleitner ), his foreign policy advisor. In 1997 he returned to the Austrian embassy in Washington, DC, where he became counselor with responsibility for public diplomacy . In 2000 Weiss was entrusted with the management of the Austrian Press and Information Service in Washington, DC and one year later he was appointed head of the Press and Information Department of the Foreign Ministry and its spokesman back in Austria.

The year 2004 brought another change of place of employment for Martin Weiss when he was appointed to the Austrian Consul General in Los Angeles . In 2009 he was appointed Austrian ambassador to Cyprus . In 2012 Weiss returned to Austria to take over the management of the press and information department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His next diplomatic station was in Israel in November 2015, where he took over the post of Austrian ambassador to Israel from his predecessor Franz Josef Kuglitsch . At the end of January 2019 it was announced that the Austrian federal government had sent Martin Weiss to the United States as ambassador to the local embassy in Washington, DC . He replaced the previous ambassador of the Republic of Austria in the United States , Wolfgang Waldner . Martin Weiss presented his accreditation in the US State Department on November 7, 2019, and on January 6, 2020 he presented his credentials to the President of the United States , Donald Trump .Template: future / in 3 years

Private life

Martin Weiss is married and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Martin Weiss - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Presentation of Ambassador Martin Weiss on the website of the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Weiss new head of the press department at the Foreign Ministry . Broadcast by the Austrian Foreign Ministry on August 22, 2012. Accessed on November 21, 2015.

↑ Manuela Honsig-Erlenburg: Personnel rogue in Austria's diplomatic service. In: derStandard.at . January 23, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019 .

↑ Oliver Papacek: Trump: "You are doing very well in Austria". In: Kronen Zeitung . January 7, 2020, accessed January 13, 2020 .

predecessor	Office	successor
	Austrian Ambassador to Cyprus from 2009 to 2012	Karl Muller
Franz Josef Kuglitsch	Austrian Ambassador to Israel November 2015 - November 2019	Hannah Liko
Wolfgang Waldner	Austrian Ambassador to the United States since November 2019

personal data
SURNAME	Weiss, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1962

[1] Martin Weiss new head of the press department at the Foreign Ministry . Broadcast by the Austrian Foreign Ministry on August 22, 2012. Accessed on November 21, 2015.