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Alexander Schallenberg was born on 20 June, 1969 in Bern, Switzerland, is a Chancellor of Austria in 2021. Discover Alexander Schallenberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 20 June 1969
Birthday 20 June
Birthplace Bern, Switzerland
Nationality Switzerland

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Who Is Alexander Schallenberg's Wife?

His wife is Marie-Isabelle Hénin (m. 1995) (divorced)

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Alexander Schallenberg Net Worth

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1666

Alexander Schallenberg's traditional title is Count, the hereditary title his family was conferred in 1666 within the Habsburg Hereditary Lands.

He is the first chancellor since Kurt Schuschnigg and Prince Starhemberg to belong to a noble family.

1901

His paternal grandfather, Herbert, Count of Schallenberg (1901–1974), was Austrian consul general in Prague, while his paternal grandmother was the daughter of politician Walter Koch, the Saxon and later German ambassador in Prague.

He is a 2nd great-grandson of Austro-Hungarian general Karl Kostersitz von Marenhorst.

Schallenberg has mainly Swiss ancestry on his mother's side and Austrian, Bohemian, Moravian, Hungarian and Saxon ancestry on his father's side.

1960

She is the daughter of Erik Hénin and noted equestrian and 1960s Parisian socialite Isabelle Le Maresquier, and a granddaughter of the prominent French architect Noël Le Maresquier and Spanish noblewoman Conchita López de Tejada; Isabelle Le Maresquier was a niece of French prime minister Michel Debré.

Her family was discussed as an example of French "state nobility" by Pierre Bourdieu.

Alexander and Marie-Isabelle Schallenberg have four children; they later divorced.

1969

Alexander Georg Nicolas Schallenberg OMRI (born 20 June 1969) is an Austrian diplomat, jurist, and politician who has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government of Chancellor Karl Nehammer since 2021, previously holding the office from 2019 to 2021.

A member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), he held the position in the second government of Sebastian Kurz, before briefly serving as Chancellor of Austria as Kurz's successor from 11 October to 6 December 2021.

A member of the Schallenberg family and a graduate of the College of Europe, Schallenberg was a career diplomat who became a mentor to Kurz when the latter became foreign minister.

Kurz appointed him director of strategic foreign policy planning and head of the European department.

A member of the comital branch of the Austro-Hungarian Schallenberg family, Schallenberg was born in 1969 in Bern, Switzerland, where his father Wolfgang was Austrian ambassador to Switzerland.

His mother is a native of Switzerland, and the daughter of Swiss banker and president of UBS Alfred Schaefer.

Schallenberg was raised in India, Spain and France where his father served as ambassador; his father eventually became Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry.

Schallenberg speaks German, French, English and Spanish fluently, and has basic knowledge of Russian.

The Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels lists his given names as Alexander Georg Nicolas Christoph Wolfgang Tassilo, though Schallenberg has disputed this and listed Alexander Georg Nicolas as his given names.

Schallenberg married French–Belgian European civil servant and fellow graduate of the College of Europe Marie-Isabelle Hénin (born 1969 in Uccle) in Saint-Pierre, France in 1995.

1989

From 1989 to 1994, he studied law at the University of Vienna and the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

1995

From 1995 to 1996 he earned an LL.M. in European law at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, an institution that aims "to train an elite of young executives for Europe" and whose graduates are said to form a close-knit "Bruges Mafia."

Schallenberg was a graduate of the "Walter Hallstein promotion."

1997

In 1997, Schallenberg joined the Austrian diplomatic service.

2000

From 2000 to 2005, he worked at the permanent representation of Austria to the European Union in Brussels, where he headed the legal department.

2006

In 2006, he became a press spokesman to Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, a fellow College of Europe graduate.

2013

When Sebastian Kurz became foreign minister, Schallenberg was appointed as director of strategic foreign policy planning in 2013.

2014

Originally he was scheduled to become ambassador to India in 2014, but he chose to remain at the foreign ministry to work with the new foreign minister.

Schallenberg was widely seen as a mentor to the inexperienced Kurz who knew little of foreign policy, who in turn promoted him to senior posts.

2016

In 2016 Schallenberg became head of the European department of the foreign ministry.

2019

Schallenberg joined the cabinet as foreign minister in 2019.

After Kurz announced his pending resignation on 9 October 2021, Schallenberg was proposed by the ÖVP to replace him as Chancellor of Austria.

He was sworn in on 11 October 2021.

Schallenberg announced his pending resignation on 2 December 2021, after less than two months in office.

His resignation took effect on 6 December; he returned to the position of foreign minister.

On 3 June 2019, Schallenberg succeeded Karin Kneissl as foreign minister of Austria.

2020

He maintained his position as part of the second Kurz cabinet, which was sworn in on 7 January 2020.

He stepped down when he became chancellor, but returned to the position following his resignation.

After Kurz announced his pending resignation on 9 October 2021 as a result of the Kurz corruption probe, Schallenberg was proposed by the ÖVP to replace him as chancellor of Austria.

Schallenberg was sworn in as chancellor on 11 October 2021 by President Alexander Van der Bellen.

In his first official act, he nominated career diplomat and ambassador to France Michael Linhart to succeed him as foreign minister.

In November 2021, Schallenberg announced that COVID-19 vaccines would be mandatory in Austria from February 2022.