Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff
Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff ( born July 28, 1950) is the Austrian ambassador in Prague. This comes from the aristocratic Austrian and Bohemian aristocratic family Trauttmansdorff.
Education and Career
From 1970 to 1971 Trauttmansdorff made the one-year voluntary military service in Austria.
He then began the study of law at the University of Graz. After graduation, he made a one-year military service in the UN Forces in Cyprus. From 1975 to 1979 he worked as a study and assistant lecturer and later as a university assistant at the Institute for International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz.
Then he began a study of European law at the Collège d'Europe in Bruges. With his training and professional career he succeeded in 1981 in the Austrian Foreign Service to enter. In his first years in the Austrian Foreign Service, he worked as a lecturer at the Austrian Mission in Geneva. In 1985 he was Erstzugeteilter at the Austrian Embassy in Bucharest. From 1985 to 1986 he took because of his political activities in the presidential campaign leave.
In the following years he became Cultural Council at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC and then Erstzugeteilter at the Embassy in Budapest. From 1999 to 2004 he was accredited ambassador in Cairo and the government in Khartoum. From 2004 to 2005 he was ambassador in Lisbon. As head of the Legal Adviser at the Foreign Ministry in Vienna Trauttmansdorff 2008 was chairman of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research and has since been to the Austrian commemorative servants particularly connected.
Since January 2010, Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff is the Austrian ambassador in Prague.