Michael Linhart

Michael Linhart (2013)

Michael Linhart (born August 31, 1958 in Ankara , Turkey ) is an Austrian diplomat . Linhart has been the Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to France since 2018 . Before that, he was Secretary General at the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2018 .

Life

Michael Linhart was born on August 31, 1958 in Ankara, Turkey, where his father was a diplomat at the Austrian embassy. He attended high school in Feldkirch in his Vorarlberg homeland and graduated there in 1976.
Subsequently, he did his military service in the Austrian Armed Forces from 1976 to 1977 , before studying law at the universities of Salzburg and Vienna . In 1985 received his doctorate Linhart in Vienna Doctor of Law . In the same year he graduated from the legal court practice .

Diplomatic activity and positions

In 1986 Michael Linhart entered the diplomatic service and was first employed in the Foreign Ministry itself and then in the Austrian Embassy in Addis Ababa . In 1988 he was transferred to the embassy in Damascus , where Linhart became the first secretary and deputy head of the embassy. Four years later, in 1992, Linhart became counselor and deputy head of the embassy in Zagreb , which he remained until 1995. In August 1995 Michael Linhart was appointed personal secretary in his cabinet by then Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schüssel , with which he returned to Vienna. After Schüssel rose to the position of Federal Chancellor in 2000 , Linhart was appointed his personal advisor on foreign policy issues and at the same time was appointed Austrian ambassador to Damascus .

From 2003 to 2007 he was managing director of the newly founded Austrian Development Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Linhart was reappointed to the post of ambassador in 2007 when he became the Austrian ambassador in Athens . Michael Linhart returned to Austria in 2012 to become head of the development cooperation section in the Foreign Ministry. On December 2, 2013, he was appointed Secretary General in the Foreign Ministry, making Linhart the highest official in the Ministry.

Under the new Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl , Linhart's appointment as General Secretary was not extended, which is why he was replaced in this position by Johannes Peterlik on June 1, 2018 . In the summer of 2018, Michael Linhart subsequently took up the post as Austrian ambassador in Paris .

Private

Michael Linhart is married and has three children. His younger brother Markus Linhart (* 1959) has been Mayor of Bregenz since 1998 . Michael Linhart has been a member of the Catholic student association KHV Babenberg Vienna in the ÖCV since 1977 .

Web links

Commons : Michael Linhart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael Linhart's curriculum vitae on the World Bank website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Linhart from Vorarlberg is the highest official in the Foreign Ministry . Article on Vorarlberg Online from December 2, 2013.
2. ↑ Peterlik becomes the new Secretary General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In: diePresse.com . May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018 . 
3. ↑ General Secretary of the Foreign Office Linhart moves to Paris. In: derStandard.at . April 25, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Robert Karas	Austrian Ambassador to Syria 2000–2003	Karl Schramek
Herbert Kroell	Austrian Ambassador to Greece 2007–2012	Melitta Schubert
Walter Grahammer	Austrian ambassador to France since 2018