Wolfgang Schallenberg

{{Short description|Austrian diplomat (1930–2023)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Wolfgang Schallenberg

| honorific_suffix = gcYC

| image = Wolfgang Schallenberg (8746895433) (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Schallenberg in 2013

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1930|6|3}}

| birth_place = Prague, Czechoslovakia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2023|02|08|1930|6|3}}

| death_place =

| nationality = Austrian

| occupation = Diplomat

| father = Herbert, Count of Schallenberg

| children = Alexander Schallenberg; Valérie Schallenberg (Bataille); Sophie Schallenberg

}}

File:Schallenberg - Tyroff HA.jpg of the comital branch of the Schallenberg family]]

Wolfgang Schallenberg gcYC (3 June 1930 – 8 February 2023) was an Austrian diplomat. He was the Austrian ambassador to India (1974–1978), Spain (1979–1981), and France (1988–1992), and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1992–1996).{{cite news |last1=Vieregge |first1=Thomas |title=Alexander Schallenberg: Vom Einflüsterer und Nothelfer zum Kanzler |url=https://www.diepresse.com/6045498/alexander-schallenberg-vom-einflusterer-und-nothelfer-zum-kanzler |access-date=11 October 2021 |work=Die Presse |date=11 October 2021 |language=German}}{{cite news |title=Plötzlich Kanzler: Schallenberg vom Außenminister zum Regierungschef |url=https://kurier.at/politik/inland/ploetzlich-kanzler-schallenberg-vom-aussenminister-zum-regierungschef/401764710 |access-date=11 October 2021 |work=Kurier |date=9 October 2021 |language=German}}

A member of the comital branch of the noble Austro-Hungarian Schallenberg family, he was born in Prague as the son of the industrialist and diplomat Herbert, Count of Schallenberg (Herbert Graf von Schallenberg).Jahrbuch der Vereinigung katholischer Edelleute in Österreich. Verlagsanstalt Tyrolia A.G., Innsbruck/Wien/München 1931. He studied law at the University of Vienna as well as political science at French and British universities. In 1982, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (gcYC) by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.{{cite web |title=REAL DECRETO 2415/1982, de 13 de septiembre, por el que se concede la Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica al señor Wolfgang Schallenberg|url=https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1982/09/28/pdfs/A26503-26503.pdf |publisher=Boletín Oficial del Estado |access-date=11 October 2021 |language=Spanish}}

His son, Alexander, was Minister of Foreign Affairs nbetween 2019 and 2025 interrupted by a short stint as Chancellor in 2021. Wolfgang Schallenberg died on 8 February 2023, at the age of 92.{{Cite web |last=Um 18:10 |first=3 December 2021 |date=3 December 2021 |title=Schallenberg wird wieder Außenminister |url=https://www.diepresse.com/6069966/schallenberg-wird-wieder-aussenminister |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=Die Presse |language=de}}