The Embassy of Austria in Berlin

Alexander Marschik

H.E. Alexander Marschik was born on 12 April 1967, is married and has three children. Since March 2025, he has been serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Marschik studied law at the University of Vienna, where he earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees. From 1989 to 1998, he worked as an assistant professor and lecturer at the University’s Institute of International Law and International Relations.

Throughout his diplomatic career, Dr. Marschik has held several senior positions within the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and in multilateral diplomatic missions. From 2020 to 2025, he served as Austria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Prior to that, he was Director-General for Bilateral Affairs and EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, and also served as Political Director at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2018–2020). Between 2015 and 2018, he was Director-General for International Affairs and Political Director.

From 2011 to 2015, he was Austria’s Ambassador to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union in Brussels. From 2007 to 2011, he served as Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at the Austrian MFA. Earlier in his career, he held the positions of Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2003–2006), Legal and Political Counsellor at the Austrian Mission to the UN in New York (1999–2003), and First Secretary to the Austrian Mission to the UN in Geneva (1997).

Dr. Marschik has played a prominent role in various multilateral forums. He served as Chair of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs) of the UN General Assembly (2023–2024), Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiations on UN Security Council Reform (2023–2025), and Co-Chair of the Preparatory Committee for the 2024 Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries. He was also a Co-Facilitator for the reform of the appointment system of the International Criminal Court (2021–2022), and of ECOSOC and the High-Level Political Forum (2020–2021). In 2010, he chaired Subsidiary Body 1 (Disarmament) at the NPT Review Conference.

In addition to his native German, Dr. Marschik is fluent in English and French.

The Austrian Embassy Berlin is located south of the largest and oldest city park, the Tiergarten, and forms the architectural entrance on the eastern side of the Berlin diplomatic quarter. The building was designed by the renowned Austrian architect Hans Hollein. The construction work started in 1999 and was inaugurated in 2001 in the presence of the Austrian President Thomas Klestil and the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.

Austria and Germany do not only share similarities in language and culture but also centuries of shared history. Germany and Austria cooperate as neighbours in a particularly close and trusting political relationship. The good relations between the two countries is reflected in numerous political and diplomatic contacts between the two. The German-Austrian cultural and scientific exchange is also very intense.