Walter Grahammer

Walter Grahammer (born August 19, 1953 in Lustenau ) is a retired Austrian diplomat . Grahammer was Austria's permanent representative to the European Union from 2011 to 2017 and Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to France from 2017 to 2018 .

Life

Walter Grahammer was born on August 19, 1953 in the Vorarlberg market town of Lustenau and grew up in the Bregenzerwald . Grahammer first studied French and Italian for teaching at the University of Salzburg , where he graduated in 1978 after spending semesters abroad at the universities of Reims and Perugia . He then became a teacher of French and Italian at the Higher Federal School for Tourism in Bad Ischl . From 1984 to 1985 he also taught German for a year in Saint-Quentin , France.

In 1985 Walter Grahammer was sent by the Austrian Chamber of Commerce to the foreign trade office at the Austrian embassy in Algiers ( Algeria ). After his first job in the field of diplomacy, he returned to Austria and started his career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990 , where he initially worked in the Foreign Office until 1991 before he became an attaché at the embassy in Prague (then Czechoslovakia ). After another stop at the Foreign Office in Vienna, he was finally appointed Deputy Ambassador to Luxembourg in 1993. In 1996 he was promoted to the position of authorized representative and deputy head of the embassy in Belgium , which brought Grahammer to Brussels for the first time in his career . In 1999 Walter Grahammer went back to the Vienna Foreign Office, where he became section head . In 2003 and 2004 Walter Grahammer was Deputy Head of Cabinet of the then Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner , after which he moved back to Brussels in October 2004 and became Deputy Permanent Representative of Austria to the European Union .

In 2010 Grahammer took over the section head for integration and economic policy matters as well as EU coordination in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On January 11, 2011, Walter Grahammer was appointed permanent representative of Austria to the European Union in Brussels as successor to Hans Dietmar Schweisgut . In 2017, Grahammer became the Austrian ambassador to France . From this position, Walter Grahammer finally retired in the summer of 2018 .

Web links

• The Ambassador - Austrian Embassy in Paris ( Memento from February 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
• Austria's EU Ambassador Walter Grahammer: Wandering life with Christmas in the desert ( Memento from January 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Article from March 28, 2011 in the EU Infothek.
• Curriculum vitae as presented to the Council of the European Union (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General Secretary of the Foreign Office Linhart moves to Paris. In: derStandard.at . April 25, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Dietmar Schweisgut	Permanent representative of Austria to the European Union 2011–2017	Nikolaus Marschik
Ursula Plassnik	Austrian Ambassador to France 2017–2018	Michael Linhart