Norbert Bischoff (diplomat)
Norbert Bischoff (born November 26, 1894 in Vienna ; † June 30, 1960 there ) was an Austrian ambassador .
Life
Norbert Bischoff joined the foreign service in 1920 and was employed at the Federal Chancellery in the Politics department, which was responsible for the foreign service at the time. In 1929 he headed Department 13 with the rank of consul. From 1930 to 1933 he was employed at the embassy in Ankara (Turkey) , where he briefly acted as chargé d'affaires in 1933 . From 1933 to 1938 he was employed in Paris (France) . After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he was according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service in the retirement staggered and emigrated to France .
On April 16, 1945, he and Franz Sobek called a meeting of the officials in Vienna by posting a notice on the gate of the Federal Chancellery on Ballhausplatz . He officially took the building of the Federal Chancellery back into Austrian ownership. In 1946, under Figl, Bischoff was the representative of the Austrian government in the government in Paris.
From 1947 to 1953 he was a political representative and from July 27, 1953 to 1960 Ambassador for the Soviet Union in Moscow . During this time the Austrian State Treaty came into being .
Bischoff died in Vienna in 1960. He left a son - the sinologist Friedrich Alexander Bischoff - and a daughter. His estate of books is in the Austrian Institute for East and Southeast Europe in Vienna.
Publications
- Ankara. An interpretation of the new becoming in Turkey. Holzhausen, Vienna and Bruckmann, Munich 1935.
- The political preparation of the state treaty. In: Die Furche , June 4, 1955, p. 1.
Web links
- Entry on Bischoff, Norbert in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Suppan: Yugoslavia and Austria 1918–1938: Bilateral foreign policy in the European environment. P. 326 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Commerce and industry , Issues 159–176, 1946, p. 1632 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Austria / International: The horse's foot. In: Der Spiegel , March 23, 1955 ( online , spiegel.de)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| August Kral (ambassador) |
Austrian Chargé d'Affaires in Turkey in 1933 |
Karl Buchberger (ambassador) |
| Alois Vollgruber (Message until 1938) |
Representative of the Austrian government in France in 1946 |
?? |
| Karl Braunias |
Austrian pol. Representative / Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1947–1960 ( Message from July 1953) |
Heinrich Haymerle |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bischoff, Norbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1960 |
| Place of death | Vienna |