Background
JANKOWITSCH, Peter was born on July 10, 1933 in Vienna. Son of Karl and Gertrude (nee Ladstaetter) Jankowitsch.
JANKOWITSCH, Peter was born on July 10, 1933 in Vienna. Son of Karl and Gertrude (nee Ladstaetter) Jankowitsch.
Grammar school (science orientated), matriculation, 1951. University of Vienna, Doctor of Law and Modern Languages. 1956; qualified as translator.
Diploma of Academy of International Law, 1959 Den Haag.
Joined foreign service 1957, worked in Institute Law Department. Private Secretary, Cabinet of Minister of Foreign Affairs 1959-1962. Posted to London 64; Charge d’affaires, Dakar, Senegal 1964-1966.
Head of Office of Bruno Kreisky, Chairman Austrian Socialist Party 1967. Chief of Cabinet of Federation Chancellor (Kreisky) 1970-1972. Perm. Representative 1972-1978.
Perm. Representative to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 1978-1982. Deputy Perm. Under-Secretary, Chief of Cabinet, Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1982-1983. Federation Minister for Foreign Affairs 87.
Secretary of State for Integration and Development Co-operation 1990. Chairman United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space since 1972. Vice-Chair, of Board.
Institute Energy Agency 83. Representative for Austria to United Nations Security Council 1973-1975, President Security Council November 1973, Vice-President 29th General Assembly. Vice-President 7th Special Session of General Assembly September 1975.
President 1984; Secretary-General Franco-Austrian Institute of East-West Encounters. Institute Secretary Socialist Party of Austria 1983. Chairman Foreign Relations Committee Austrian National Assembly 1987, Human Rights Committee Socialist Institute 1987.
Austrian National; United Nations Security Council Mission to Zambia 1973. Of Board, Vienna Institute for Development since 1973, Acting Vice. Board Austrian Foreign Policy Society and Austrian United Nations League.
Married Odette Prevor in 1962.