Foreign Minister of Austria
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The Foreign Minister
Foreign minister
A Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...

 of Austria
is responsible for handling Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

's foreign policy
Foreign policy
A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...

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Under the First Austrian Republic

  • Victor Adler
    Victor Adler
    ----Victor Adler was an Austrian Social Democratic leader.Born in Prague, Adler received a university degree in Vienna in 1881. He founded the Socialist movement in Austria and created the Marxist journals Gleicheit in 1886 and Arbeiter-Zeitung in 1889...

  • Otto Bauer
    Otto Bauer
    Otto Bauer was an Austrian Social Democrat who is considered one of the leading thinkers of the left socialist Austro-Marxist tendency...

  • Karl Renner
    Karl Renner
    Karl Renner was an Austrian politician. He was born in Untertannowitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and died in Vienna...

  • Michael Mayr
    Michael Mayr
    Michael Mayr was Chancellor of Austria in the First Austrian Republic, from November 1920 to June 1921. He was a member of the Christian Social Party, and by profession a historian.-Life:...

  • Johann Schober
    Johann Schober
    Johann Schober was an Austrian police officer who served three times as Chancellor of Austria .-Early career:...

  • Walter Breisky
    Walter Breisky
    Walter Breisky was an Austrian Beamter and politician.A member of the Christian Social Party, he served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria and Minister of the Interior from 1920 to 1922...

  • Leopold Hennet
  • Alfred Grünberger
  • Heinrich Mataja
  • Rudolf Ramek
    Rudolf Ramek
    Rudolf Ramek was an Austrian politician.Ramek was born in Teschen in Austrian Silesia . A member of the Christian Social Party, he served as Chancellor of Austria from 20 November 1924 to 20 October 1926. He died in Vienna, and buried at Salzburg Municipal Cemetery....

  • Ignaz Seipe
  • Ernst Streeruwitz
    Ernst Streeruwitz
    Ernst Streeruwitz, originally Ernst Ritter Streer von Streeruwitz was an Austrian political figure. He served as the Chancellor of Austria in 1929....

  • Johann Schober
    Johann Schober
    Johann Schober was an Austrian police officer who served three times as Chancellor of Austria .-Early career:...

  • Ignaz Seipel
    Ignaz Seipel
    Ignaz Seipel was an Austrian prelate and politician who served as Chancellor during the 1920s.-Career:Seipel studied theology at the University of Vienna and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1899...

  • Johann Schober
    Johann Schober
    Johann Schober was an Austrian police officer who served three times as Chancellor of Austria .-Early career:...

  • Karl Buresch
    Karl Buresch
    Karl Buresch was a lawyer, Christian-Social politician and chancellor of Austria during the First Republic.- Education :...

  • Engelbert Dollfuß
  • Stephan Tauschitz
    Stephan Tauschitz
    Stephan Tauschitz was an Austrian politician and farmer.Tauschitz was born in Hörtendorf, which was a village, but was later included into Klagenfurt. After high school in Klagenfurt, he studied at Vienna University of Technology, where he graduated in 1922...

  • Egon Berger-Waldenegg
  • Kurt Schuschnigg
    Kurt Schuschnigg
    Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg was Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic, following the assassination of his predecessor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, in July 1934, until Germany’s invasion of Austria, , in March 1938...

  • Guido Schmidt
    Guido Schmidt
    Guido Schmidt was an Austrian diplomat and politician....

  • Wilhelm Wolf

Under the Second Austrian Republic

  • Karl Gruber
    Karl Gruber
    Karl Gruber was an Austrian politician and diplomat. During World War II, he was working for a German firm in Berlin. After the war, in 1945 he became Landeshauptmann of Tyrol for a short time...

  • Leopold Figl
    Leopold Figl
    Leopold Figl was an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party and the first Federal Chancellor after World War II...

  • Bruno Kreisky
    Bruno Kreisky
    Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian politician who served as Foreign Minister from 1959 to 1966 and as Chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the oldest acting Chancellor after World War II....

  • Lujo Tončić-Sorinj
    Lujo Toncic-Sorinj
    Lujo Tončić-Sorinj was an Austrian diplomat and politician of the Austrian People's Party ....

  • Kurt Waldheim
    Kurt Waldheim
    Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992...

  • Rudolf Kirchschläger
    Rudolf Kirchschläger
    Rudolf Kirchschläger was an Austrian diplomat, politician, judge and, from 1974 to 1986, the eighth President of Austria.-Education and early life:...

  • Erich Bielka
    Erich Bielka
    Erich Bielka was an Austrian diplomat and member of the Austrian government. During his career, he served as Austrian ambassador in Bern, Cairo, Ankara and Paris and as Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1976....

  • Willibald Pahr
    Willibald Pahr
    Willibald P. Pahr is an Austrian politician and diplomat. From 1976 to 1983, he was Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 1983 to 1986 he served as ambassador to Germany...

  • Erwin Lanc
    Erwin Lanc
    Erwin Lanc is a former Austrian bank employee and politician .Born in Vienna, Lanc worked at the Ministry of Social Affairs from 1949 to 1955. In 1959, he joined the Vienna bank Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank. In 1966, he became chairman of the SPÖ in the Margareten district of Vienna...

  • Leopold Gratz
    Leopold Gratz
    ----Leopold Gratz was an Austrian politician.Born in Vienna, Gratz was a law graduate and a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party . From 1963 to 1966 he was a member of the Bundesrat, from 1970 to 1971 Federal Minister of Education and the Arts...

  • Peter Jankowitsch
    Peter Jankowitsch
    Peter Jankowitsch is a former Austrian diplomat and politician.He was born in Vienna, Austria. A law graduate, he is a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party . From 1983 to 1986, 1987 to 1990 and 1992 to 1993 he was a member of the Nationalrat, from 1986 to 1987 Federal Minister of Foreign...

  • Alois Mock
    Alois Mock
    Alois Mock is a politician and member of the Austrian People's Party . He was Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1987 to 1989. As foreign minister he helped take Austria into the European Union....

  • Wolfgang Schüssel
    Wolfgang Schüssel
    Wolfgang Schüssel is an Austrian People's Party politician. He was Chancellor of Austria for two consecutive terms from February 2000 to January 2007...

  • Benita Ferrero-Waldner
    Benita Ferrero-Waldner
    Dr. Benita Ferrero-Waldner is an Austrian diplomat and politician, and a member of the conservative Austrian People's Party . Ferrero-Waldner served as the Foreign Minister of Austria 2000–2004 and was the candidate of the Austrian People's Party in the Austrian presidential election, 2004, which...

  • Ursula Plassnik
    Ursula Plassnik
    Ursula Plassnik is an Austrian diplomat and politician. She was Foreign Minister of Austria between October 2004 and December 2008.-Early life and career:...

  • Michael Spindelegger
    Michael Spindelegger
    Michael Spindelegger is an Austrian lawyer and politician. He is the current Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Austria in the cabinet of Werner Faymann. Since 2011, Spindelegger is the current leader of the Austrian People's Party .- Early and personal life :Spindelegger was born in Mödling,...


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