Heinz Standenat
Heinrich "Heinz" Standenat (5 August 1913 – 1992) was an Austrian diplomat.
He was born in Vienna, the son of Ansy Hardung and Rudolf Standenat. He studied law at the University of Vienna and the University of Paris, and earned a law doctorate.
After World War II, he worked as a freelance journalist and for Radio Vienna. In late 1947 he joined Austria’s foreign service and worked at the Economic Liaison Office in Paris. When that office became an embassy, he became a trusted ally of the Socialists and joined the Austrian delegation to the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).
From 1955 he led the Foreign Ministry’s multilateral economic relations department and helped negotiate the coal and steel agreement between the European Union and Austria.
From 1958 to 1962 he was ambassador in Cairo, also accredited to the governments in Khartoum and Addis Ababa. From 1962 to 1965 he headed the economic policy section in the Foreign Ministry. From 1965 to 1968 he was ambassador in Madrid. From 1968 to 1972 he was again ambassador in Cairo and accredited to the governments of Aden, the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, Somalia and Sudan.
From 1975 to 1978 he was ambassador in Moscow. He was married to Inge Kichniawy. His children included Yuri Wolfgang Standenat (born 1940), who also became a diplomat, and Julika Standenat Kruse. He died in 1992 and was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.
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