Diplomat dies at age 93 – Minister of Foreign Affairs Schallenberg mourns the loss of his father

He was already working for the State Department at the meeting between then US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet head of state and party Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961, as was his son Alexander after returning to Washington from his trip to the US , where he met his counterpart Antony Blinken, among others, told journalists.

Schallenberg also worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna as head of the press and information department and as head of the cultural policy section. In 1992 he was finally appointed Secretary General. “A position he performed with incredible passion and commitment until his retirement in December 1995,” the broadcast said.

Diplomat even before signing the State Treaty
“When he entered the diplomatic service shortly before the signing of the State Treaty, he represented a new, confident Austrian foreign policy like no other. Wolfgang Schallenberg played a key role in the development of Austrian diplomacy during this turbulent phase of the republic.

The Austrian Association for Foreign Policy (ÖGAVN) and the United Nations, of which Schallenberg was honorary president, also paid tribute to the diplomat in a broadcast. “His intellectual work and his cosmopolitan attitude were not only a valuable inspiration, but also a basic requirement to make foreign policy accessible to broad layers of civil society,” said the ÖGAVN.