The following is a list of Austrian ambassadors of the Republic of Austria in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The Austrian Embassy in Caracas was dissolved in August 2018 and the area of responsibility was taken over by the Austrian Embassy in Havana, Cuba.
History In 1895, Johann Friedrich Berndes was the Austro-Hungarian Consul General in Havana. In the 1950s and 1960s, the ambassadors in Mexico City were also accredited to the governments in Havana. The Austrian embassy in Havana was opened in 1978 with Peter Hohenfellner as head of the mission.
As of 2018, the embassy is also responsible for Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
The current ambassador presented her credentials to President and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel on 12 January 2023, along with the ambassadors of Greece, Colombia, Syria, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Jamaica, Order of Malta, Malta and Gambia.
Austrian ambassadors Name Term Start Term End Appointed by First Secretary Notes Peter Hohenfellner 1978 1981 Bruno Kreisky Fidel Castro Later Ambassador in Beirut; Representative to the UN Security Council; President of the UN Security Council Elmar Gamper 1982 1985 Bruno Kreisky Fidel Castro Christoph Parisini 1987 1990 Fred Sinowatz Fidel Castro Born 1939 Yuri Standenat 1994 1999 Franz Vranitzky Fidel Castro Later Ambassador in Buenos Aires Helga Konrad 2000 2005 Wolfgang Schüssel Fidel Castro Johannes Skriwan 2006 2010 Wolfgang Schüssel Fidel Castro Andreas Rendl 2010 2014 Werner Faymann Raúl Castro Born 1964 Gerlinde Paschinger 2014 2014 Werner Faymann Raúl Castro Stefan Weidinger 2018 2022 Sebastian Kurz Raúl Castro Born 1957 Gabriele Méon-Tschürtz 2022 Incumbent Alexander Schallenberg Miguel Díaz-Canel Born 1962
See also Lists of ambassadors of Austria
References
See also Foreign relations of Austria