Background
His paternal grandfather had been governor of Dalmatia, his father consul in Jeddah.
His paternal grandfather had been governor of Dalmatia, his father consul in Jeddah.
Tončić-Sorinj studied law and, during World World War II taught languages in an air intelligence unit of the Wehrmacht.
In 1945, Tončić-Sorinj became chairman of the political department of the Austrian Institute for the Economy and Politics in Salzburg, and he joined the newly created Österreichisches Volkspartei (Austrian People's Party). From 1969 to 1974, he was secretary general of the Council of Europe. In 1992 he decided to take the Croatian citizenship because of his family connections to Dalmatia, but as a result he lost Austrian citizenship. Facebook
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With help from his political party, he became an Austrian citizen again.
Born in 1915, he was a member of an Austro-Hungarian noble family. Later he was member of the Austrian United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization commission and of the Austrian delegation to the advisory convention of the Council of Europe. From 1949 to 1966, he was member of the National Council of Austria for the Österreichisches Volkspartei (Austrian People's Party), from 1966 to 1968 he was foreign minister in the Josef Klaus government.