Lujo TonÄić-Sorinj
Lujo Tončić - Sorinj ( born April 12, 1915 in Vienna, † 20 May, 2005 Salzburg) was an Austrian diplomat and politician (ÖVP ) and Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
From a ennobled in the monarchy diplomats family ( Noble v. Sorinj ) coming, his father was consul in Jeddah ( Jeddah), his paternal grandfather was governor of Dalmatia, his maternal grandfather, Dr. Adolf Ritter von Plason de la Woestyne, Court and Ministerial in kuk Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited Tončić - Sorinj a Humanistic Gymnasium in Salzburg. After his study of law, philosophy and the history of Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Zagreb, he taught during the Second World War Languages in the air corps of the German Wehrmacht.
From 1945 Tončić - Sorinj was head of the Political Department of the Austrian Institute of Economics and Politics in Salzburg, a member of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO and the Austrian delegation to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe. November 8, 1949 to June 5, 1966, he was for the People's Party Member of Parliament, April 19, 1966 to January 19, 1968 Minister of Foreign Affairs in the People's Party government under Chancellor Josef Klaus. In his aegis the South Tyrol package content has been designed and negotiated. From 1969 to 1974 held Tončić - Sorinj the Office of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
In 1992, he was the Croatian citizenship requested " from attachment to Dalmatia ", after which the then government denied him the right to an award of dual citizenship, he denied Austrian citizenship and the politicians pension has been deleted. Only after submission of documents that should prove the unlawful acquisition of Croatian citizenship, Lujo Tončić - Sorinj was Austrians again.
" Tončić - Sorinj [ was my ] master and model [ ... ]. Due to his family lineage and his training in Vienna, Zagreb and Paris, he has always seen Europe as a whole and also lived this whole ".