Werner Almhofer

Werner Almhofer (born April 5, 1960 in Linz ) is an Austrian diplomat.

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Werner Almhofer taught from 1988 to 1991 as a lecturer at the University of Bari in Italy.

In 1992 Almhofer's entry into the diplomatic service took place. In 1993 he became an attaché at the Belgrade Embassy (Serbia) . From 1994 to 1997 Almhofer headed the Austrian Cultural Institute in Rome (Serbia) as deputy director. Afterwards he worked again as deputy head of mission at the embassy in Belgrade with Ambassador Hannes Porias . From 2001 to 2005 he was the European correspondent in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna.

On March 9, 2005, Almhofer was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Sarajevo for Bosnia and Herzegovina , where he worked until May 2009. As Austrian ambassador, he opened the South East Europe Media Organization SEEMO Investigative Reporting Conference in Sarajevo in 2007 .

From October 2008 to September 2012 Almhofer was head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo  (OMIK). In February of its inaugural year, Kosovo announced its independence from Serbia, and the EU mission was supposed to replace the previous UN mission UNMIK . Its designation met with strong criticism from the Serbian and Russian governments (member of the Kosovo Troika), who felt that their participation had been neglected. Austria supported the Ahtisaari plan while the Troika mediation failed. The mission had 800 employees at the time. Among other things, Almofer accompanied the implementation of the Kosovar parliamentary elections in 2010/2011 .

In 2012 he returned to the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs and acts as Deputy Head of Section III - Europe , EU Expansion Department, where he is also the national coordinator of the Danube Region Strategy .

In 2017 Almhofer became ambassador to Poland.

literature

• Markus Puchwein: Kosovo - external state building - Austria. Austria's contribution to the stabilization and democratization of Kosovo with special consideration of the role of the international community. Master's thesis, University of Vienna, 2011 ( othes.univie.ac.at (PDF) othes.univie.ac.at).

Individual evidence

1. ^ The ambassador: Werner Almhofer. Austrian Embassy Sarajevo, accessed June 3, 2008 (valid only until the arrival of the next ambassador).
2. ^ Almhofer, Werner. Entry in the Université de Montreal: Réseau de recherche sur les opérations de paix. (accessed March 11, 2016).
3. ^ OSCE Mission in Kosovo , osce.org
4. ↑ ^{a b} Erich Rathfelder: Kosovo: History of a conflict. Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-79620-7 , Chapter 16 The New Freedom - Republic of Kosovo (no page numbers), ( limited preview in Google book search).
5. ^ Austrian diplomat Almhofer becomes OSCE chief in Pristina. In: der Standard online, September 18, 2008;
   Almhofer is unacceptable for Moscow. In: Wiener Zeitung online, undated
6. ^ Kosovo. ( Memento of the original from March 11, 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. bmeia.at → Foreign Policy → Europe → Western Balkans (archive version oD: around 2008, accessed March 11, 2016);
   Austria for Kosovo plan as a “friend” of Serbia. In: Die Presse online, May 26, 2007.
7. ↑ The Danube region needs entrepreneurs! hydroconnect.at, March 23, 2015, accessed March 11, 2016.
8. ↑ The Ambassador to Poland bmeia.gv.at, accessed on October 18, 2018

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerhard Jandl	Austrian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina March 2005 - May 2009	Donatus Koeck
Tim Guldimann	Head of OSCE Mission in Kosovo Oct. 2008 - Sep. 2012	Jean-Claude Schlumberger .
	Austrian Ambassador to Poland Nov. 2017 -