Career
Joined Austrian diplomatic service 1957. Deputy Chief of Mission, Washington, D.C. 70. Chef de Cabinet, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1970-1975.
Ambassador to Spain 1975-1978, to USSR 1978-1981. Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs and Perm. Representative, Vienna 1981-1987.
Executive Secretary United Nations Economics Commission, for Europe (ECE) since 1987. Acting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 1989-1990.