- Born in 1933

- Nationality: Austrian

- Official in the Austrian Foreign Ministry (1958‒1999)

- Ambassador to Algiers (1974‒1978)

- Head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Department for European Integration (1978‒1983)

- Ambassador to the European Communities in Brussels (1983‒1986)

- Head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Department for Economic Policy and Integration (1987‒1992)

- Chief negotiator for the diplomatic negotiations, at ambassadorial level, for Austria's accession to the European Union (1993‒1994)

- Austrian Permanent Representative to the European Union (1995‒1999)