Rudolf Agstner

Rudolf Agstner (* 1951 in The Hague ; † May 19, 2016 in Vienna ) was an Austrian diplomat and author.

Life

After attending school in Bad Godesberg and Vienna, Agstner studied law at the University of Vienna (Dr. jur., 1975) and completed a postgraduate program at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (until 1977). In the same year he entered the foreign service of his country. From 1980 to 1981 he worked in Paris and then in Brussels . After stints in Tripoli (1981–1984) and the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York (1984–1987), Agstner was an embassy employee in Cairo from 1991 to 1996 . After a year of diplomatic activity in the branch office of the Austrian embassy in Bonn , he was promoted to ambassador to Ethiopia from October 2006 to March 17, 2009 with simultaneous accreditation as Austria's permanent representative to the African Union .

Agstner wrote 15 books and over 200 articles on the history of the Austro-Hungarian and Austrian Foreign Ministries and the Austrian representation authorities in Egypt, Ethiopia, Israel, Libya and Sudan. Agstner taught at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck . In 2011 he published the memories of Lore Trenkler , the personal cook of Emperor Haile Selassie .

In 2004, Federal President Heinz Fischer awarded him the professional title of Professor.

Works (selection)

as an author

• About emperors, consuls and merchants . Lit, Vienna 2011/12
• Austria and Ukraine. 1785-2010 . 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50335-0 .
• The kuk consulates in Arabia, Latin America, Latvia, London and Serbia . 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-50459-3 .
• One week in Ethiopia. Forever with God. Guidebook to the foreigners' cemeteries in Addis Ababa, Ethopia . Lit, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-50091-5 .
• Rudolf Agstner; Gertrude Enderle-Burcel; Michaela Follner: Austria's top diplomats between Kaiser and Kreisky: biographical handbook of diplomats in the senior foreign service 1918 to 1959 . Fassbaender, Vienna 2009
• Cizí konzuláty v Čechách, na Moravě av Bratislavě 1869-1918 - The foreign consulates in Bohemia and Moravia and in Pressburg 1869-1918. Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, Prague 2008.
• Handbook of the Austrian Foreign Service: 1: 1918-1938: headquarters, embassies and consulates . Vienna: Lit-Verlag, 2015 ISBN 9783643506856

as editor

• Turkey 1960. Political reports from Ambassador Karl Hartl to Foreign Minister Bruno Kreisky . Lit, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-50307-7 .
• Lore Trenkler : Working and Living at the Court of Haile Selassies I. Memoirs 1960–1975 . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06447-7 .
• Austria in Istanbul. Kuk presence in the Ottoman Empire . Lit, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50230-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Agstner in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolf Agstner: Chronicler of a diplomacy that has passed. In: DiePresse.com. Retrieved June 5, 2016 . 
2. ↑ oead.at ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 126 kB) 

predecessor	Office	successor
Brigitte Öppinger-Walchshofer	Austrian Ambassador to Ethiopia October 2006 to March 17, 2009	Gudrun Graf (from Dec. 2009)