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IN CO-OPERATION WITH AUSTRIAN CENTRE FOR PEACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbert Amry (1939\u20131985) was the last Chief of Staff to Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and, prior to that, had already played a central role in Austrian policy on the Middle East as the Austrian Ambassador to Beirut. Internationally, Herbert Amry gained renown as the mediator of what remains to this day the largest Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange; nationally, he is primarily associated with his role as a whistleblower in the case of illegal arms deliveries to Iran (\u201eNoricum\u201c). Forty years ago, Herbert Amry was posthumously awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for his services to human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ren\u00e9 Amry<\/strong>, son of Herbert Amry, diplomat
Wolfgang Petritsch<\/strong>, former colleague of Herbert Amry, retired ambassador, President of the Marshall Anniversary Foundation and the Austrian Institute for International Politics (oiip), member of the BKF Executive Board
Thomas Riegler<\/strong>, historian and author (most recent work: *Vienna: City of Espionage*, 2026)
Margit Schmidt<\/strong>, former colleague of Herbert Amry, assistant and closest associate of Bruno Kreisky (1965\u20131990), first Secretary-General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum from 1991 to 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moderation<\/strong>
Tobias Lang, <\/strong>Director of the Austrian Centre for Peace<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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International erlangte Herbert Amry Bekanntheit als Vermittler der bis heute gr\u00f6\u00dften israelisch-pal\u00e4stinensischen Gefangenenaustausche, national wird er vor allem mit seiner Rolle als […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13734,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[],"class_list":["post-13733","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDIPLOMAT UND WHISTLEBLOWER: EIN ABEND IM GEDENKEN AN BOTSCHAFTER HERBERT AMRY - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/diplomat-and-whistleblower-an-evening-in-memory-of-ambassador-herbert-amry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DIPLOMAT UND WHISTLEBLOWER: EIN ABEND IM GEDENKEN AN BOTSCHAFTER HERBERT AMRY - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IN KOOPERATION MIT AUSTRIAN CENTER FOR PEACE Herbert Amry (1939-1985) war letzter Kabinettschef von Bundeskanzler Bruno Kreisky und spielte bereits davor als \u00f6sterreichischer Botschafter in Beirut eine zentrale Rolle in der \u00f6sterreichischen Nahostpolitik. 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