Paul Leifer
Paul Leifer (born April 14, 1937 in Graz ) is a former Austrian ambassador .
Life
Paul Leifer attended boarding school in Strebersdorf from 1947 to 1955. Until 1958 he studied business administration at the University for World Trade . In 1959 he was at the Creditanstalt-Bankverein busy and went as a Fulbright scholar in the United States, where until 1961 Economics and Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans studied and as a Master graduated. He was employed at the UN headquarters and studied in Geneva and Paris . In 1964 he studied at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research and was awarded a doctorate. comm. PhD.
In 1965 he joined the foreign service and worked in Tel Aviv and Jakarta . From 1973 to 1974 he was chargé d'affaires in Santiago de Chile . After the coup in Chile in 1973 , Adolf Heinrich Hobel refused asylum to politically persecuted people in the Austrian embassy. After his recall at the end of 1973, a total of 160 politically persecuted people were allowed to leave for Austria under Chargé d'affaires Paul Leifer, and the Austrian embassy in Santiago took on "many difficulties" by accepting numerous people at risk in the limited space.
- From 1975 to 1977 he was ambassador to Moscow .
- From 1977 to 1982 he was ambassador to Lagos , Nigeria and accredited to the governments of Ghana , Liberia and Sierra Leone .
- From 1982 to 1985 he headed the multilateral economic relations department in the Foreign Ministry.
- From 1985 to 1991 he was ambassador to Belgrade .
- From 1991 to 1994 he was ambassador in Rabat .
- From 1994 to 1999 he headed the Diplomatic Academy Vienna .
- From 1999 to 2002 he was ambassador to Dublin .
In 2002 he was retired and became an honorary board member of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM).
He is married to Dipl.-Dolm. Helga Leifer-Zink. Since 1955 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KÖHV Amelungia Vienna in the ÖCV .
Awards
- 2003: Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2017: Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Prize of the City of Braunau am Inn
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Austrian Latin America Institute, 1988, Journal for Latin America: issues 35–43, p. 43 f.
- ↑ http://www.strebersdorfer.at/wirstrebersdorfer_begegnung/paul_leifer/
- ^ Complete directory of the ÖCV 2004, IV - 316.
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ Paul Leifer is awarded the Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Prize at the Braunau Contemporary History Days (September 22-24, 2017) Braunauer Contemporary History Days , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , Monika Raschhofer, March 27, 2017
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Adolf Heinrich Hobel |
Austrian chargé d'affaires in Santiago de Chile 1973 to 1974 |
Anton Ségur-Cabanac |
| Elmar Gamper (born May 24, 1925 in Innsbruck, appointed on January 12, 1973, accredited from February 23, 1973 to December 1976) |
Austrian ambassador in Lagos from 1977 to 1982 |
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| Helmut Liedermann |
Austrian ambassador in Belgrade 1985 to 1991 |
Wolfgang Petritsch |
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Austrian ambassador in Rabat 1991 to 1994 |
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Austrian ambassador in Dublin from 1999 to 2002 |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Leifer, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |