Max Loewenthal-Chlumecky

Joseph Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Löwenthal-Chlumecký , from 1919 Max Löwenthal-Chlumecký (born March 14, 1908 in Mali Lošinj ; † August 27, 1995 in Bozen ) was an Austrian diplomat .

Life

Max Löwenthal-Chlumecký was the son of Joseph Freiherr von Löwenthal-Chlumecký (1873–1940), bureau chief of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Austria-Hungary and Alice, née. Noble Turk from Karlovacgrad (1880–1950). The von Löwenthal family moved to Vienna in 1912 . After attending the Schottengymnasium , Max Löwenthal studied law , was awarded a doctorate in law , was employed as a bank clerk and on March 18, 1932 he entered the foreign service where he was employed in Prague until February 1935 and then in Paris. From 1936 he was employed in the Foreign Office in Vienna, where in 1938 he headed the office of Foreign Minister Guido Schmidt , with the “ Anschluss of Austria ” the “ Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ” was also applied there and Maximilian Löwenthal-Chlumecky because of his Jewish origin in the Retired . After the annexation of Austria, Löwenthal was employed by Continentale Motorschiffahrts-AG , (COMOS), which was part of the operating group of the Danube Shipping Communities.

On February 5, 1952, he was appointed ambassador to Washington, DC , where he was accredited from February 13, 1952 to 1954. Based in Washington, DC, from 1952 to 1954 he was also accredited with the governments of Ottawa , Havana and Santo Domingo . From 1954 to 1955 he was based in Buenos Aires , accredited by the governments of Montevideo and Asunción .

From March 16, 1955 to 1972, he was ambassador to Rome . When the Liberation Committee of South Tyrol became active with a few explosive attacks, Löwenthal was called to Vienna for consultations on February 25, 1960. In 1966 he resided in Rome and was certified as an extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to the government in Tunis .

Publications

• Max Löwenthal: In the fall. Poems. Pustet, Salzburg / Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7025-0169-X .
• Max Löwenthal: double-headed eagle and swastika. Experiences of an Austrian diplomat. Word and World, Innsbruck 1985, ISBN 3-85373-089-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The name association results from an adoption contract with Leopold Freiherrn von Chlumecký.
2. ↑ The title was made bourgeois on the basis of the "Law on the Abolition of the Nobility, Secular Knights and Ladies Orders and Certain Titles and Dignities" of the Republic of Austria (Nobility Repeal Act ) of April 3, 1919 with effect from April 10, 1919.
3. ↑ Collier's year book covering the year 1960 , PF Collier & Son, p. 76.
4. ↑ Die Zeit , 1988, [1] .
5. ^ Max Löwenthal: Double-headed eagle and swastika: experiences of an Austrian diplomat. Word and World, Innsbruck 1985, p. 133.

predecessor	Office	successor
Ludwig Kleinwächter	Austrian Ambassador to Washington, DC 1952–1954	Karl Gruber
	Austrian Ambassador in Ottawa 1952–1954	Walther Peinsipp
Stephan Tauschitz	Austrian Ambassador in Buenos Aires 1954–1955	Meinard Falser
Johannes Schwarzenberg	Austrian ambassador in Rome 1955–1972	Heribert Tschofen