List of Austrian ambassadors to the United States

The list of Austrian Ambassador to the United States includes the Diplomatic Representatives of Austria, the exercisable the Office of the Austrian representative in the United States from 1865 to the present ( ed). From 1868 until the declaration of war of the United States in 1917 it was envoy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austro the Minister of the Imperial and Royal House and of Foreign Affairs, also Chairman of the Joint Council of Ministers, had been responsible.

Historical development

1837 sent U.S. President Martin Van Buren Nathaniel Niles Jr. ( * December 27 1791 in Fairlee Vermont, † November 16, 1869 in New York City ), son of Nathaniel Miles, an exponent of the early history of the United States to Vienna when the incumbent under Emperor Ferdinand I. chancellor Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich obstacles to the importation of American tobacco eliminate the Empire of Austria. This could well have been the first diplomatic contacts between the United States and Austria.

As part of the modernization of the state in the 1860s, the Empire of Austria or Austria - Hungary began to appoint permanent envoy to the United States. After November 11, 1918 it was no longer representative of the Emperor, but the republican state German Austria and the Republic of Austria, which were now referred to as the ambassador. On March 13, 1938, the Austrian representative in Washington DC was closed because of the "Anschluss " of Nazi Germany and reopened only after the Second World War and a half years after the restoration of the Republic of Austria.

That the resumption of diplomatic relations took place only in November 1946, reflecting the fact that the United States in Vienna were an occupying force in Austria since September 1, 1945 high-level presence and the four occupying powers regarded as supreme authority in Austria. It was not until the summer of 1946, the federal government Figl I received more political leeway.

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1838: establishment of diplomatic relations

(* 1817, † 1890) 1863-1868 envoy in the Hanseatic cities

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