This is a list of the
heads of mission from the
Habsburg Monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy (german: Habsburgermonarchie, ), also known as the Danubian monarchy (german: Donaumonarchie, ), or Habsburg Empire (german: Habsburgerreich, ), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities ...
,
Austrian Empire, and later
Austria-Hungary, to France.
Envoys from the court of Vienna appeared as early as the 16th century, but France and the nascent Habsburg Empire were often decidedly hostile to one another, as the end of the Italian Wars showed that the two states had conflicting hegemonic interests. There was a permanent diplomatic mission in Paris from 1679.
Habsburg Envoy
*1680–1682:
Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld
Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld, Prince of Fondi ( Bornstedt, November 21, 1640, Vienna, June 18, 1715) was an Austrian diplomat, Field marshal and President of the Hofkriegsrat.
Early life
Heinrich Franz came from the powerful House of Mansfeld, an ...
*1683-1684?: Johann von Althann
*1685-1685: Johann Friedrich von Seilern
*1685–1688:
Wenzel Ferdinand Popel von Lobkowitz
*1688-1699: ''Vacant'' (Nine Years' War)
*1699–1701:
Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf
Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf (26 December 1671 – 8 February 1742) was an Austrian diplomat and statesman who for nearly four decades served as Court Chancellor responsible of foreign affairs of the Habsburg monarchy.
Origin
He w ...
*1701-1713: ''Vacant'' (War of the Spanish Succession)
*1713–1714: Prinz
Eugene of Savoy (Peace negotiations)
*1714-1714: Johann Friedrich von Seilern (2nd term)
*1714-1714: Johann Peter Goëss
*1715–1716: Johann Christoph Pentenriedter
*1717–1719:
Dominik von Königsegg-Rothenfels
Lothar Joseph Dominik Graf von Königsegg-Rothenfels (17 May 1673 – Vienna 8 December 1751) was an imperial Fieldmarshal.
Family
Lothar was the youngest son of Count Leopold Wilhelm von Königsegg-Rothenfels and Maria Polyxena, Countess S ...
*1719–1719: Marcus de Fonseca
*1719–1728: Johann Christoph von Pentenriedter (2nd term)
*1729–1732: Stephan Wilhelm Kinsky
*1732–1733: Ignaz Johann Wasner, (Resident)
*1733-1736: ''Vacant'' (War of the Polish Succession)
*1736–1737: Leopold von Schmerling
*1737–1741:
Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein
*1741–1744: Paul Gundel
*1744-1749: : ''Vacant'' (War of the Austrian Succession)
*1749–1750: Johann von Mareschall
*1750–1752:
Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (attaché: Ludwig von Zinzendorf)
*1752–1753: Johann von Mareschall (2nd term)
*1753–1766:
Georg Adam, Prince of Starhemberg
*1766–1790:
Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau
*1790–1792: Franz Paul von Blumendorf (Chargé d’affaires)
*1792–1801: ''Vacant'' (Wars of the French Revolution)
*1801–1805:
Philipp von Cobenzl
Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Austrian Empire
* 1805–1806: Vacant
* 1806–1806: Peter von Floret ''(Chargé d'affaires)''
* 1806–1809:
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
* 1809–1813:
Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg
* 1813–1814: Vacant
* 1814–1814:
Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles
Louis Philippe de Bombelles (german: Ludwig Philipp, Graf von Bombelles; 1 July 17807 July 1843) was an Austrian count and diplomat.
Early life
Born in 1780 in Regensburg, he was a member of the noble Bombelles family. He was the son of the F ...
''(Chargé d'affaires)''
* 1814–1825:
Karl von Vincent
Karl Freiherr von Vincent (11 August 1757 – 7 October 1834) fought in the army of Habsburg Austria during the French Revolutionary Wars. He first served as a staff officer then later as a combat commander. During the Napoleonic Wars, he was ...
* 1825–1826: Friedrich Binder von Krieglstein ''(Chargé d'affaires)''
* 1826–1848:
Anton von Apponyi
* 1848–1849: Ludwig von Thom ''(Chargé d'affaires)''
* 1849–1859:
Alexander von Hübner
* 1859–1867:
Richard von Metternich
Austro-Hungarian Ambassador
* 1867–1871:
Richard von Metternich
* 1871–1876:
Rudolf, Count of Apponyi
Count Rudolph von Apponyi (1 August 181231 May 1876) was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat and Ambassador to London.
Biography
He was born in Karlsruhe, into the noble Apponyi family.
As his father, Rudolph entered the Austrian diplomatic service a ...
* 1876–1878:
Felix von Wimpffen
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* 1878–1882:
Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
* 1882–1882:
Felix von Wimpffen
Felix may refer to:
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(2nd term)
* 1883–1894: Ladislaus Hoyos-Sprinzenstein
* 1894–1903:
Anton von Wolkenstein-Trostburg
* 1903–1910:
Rudolf von Khevenhüller-Metsch
* 1911–1914:
Count Nikolaus Szécsen von Temerin
Nikolaus (Anton) Graf Szécsen von Temerin ( hu, gróf temerini Szécsen Miklós ) (26 November 1857 – 18 May 1926), was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Hungarian origin serving as ambassador at Paris at the outbreak of World War I.
Life
Bo ...
See also
*
List of diplomatic missions of Austria-Hungary
Source
* ''Der Auswärtige Dienst von Österreich(-Ungarn) 1720-1920'' Böhlau Verlag (Erwin Matsch, 1986) : from page 113.
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Ambassadors to France
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Ambassadors to France
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Ambassadors of Austria-Hungary to France