politics
April 6, 2026
Kristijan Švarc-Šiling has passed away
Kristijan Švarc-Šiling, the former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, has passed away. He was 95 years old.
TL;DR
- Christian Schwarz-Schilling, former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, died at 95.
- He was born in Innsbruck, Austria, on November 19, 1930.
- Schwarz-Schilling joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in 1960.
- He was elected to the Bundestag in 1976.
- He served as Minister of Communications starting in 1982.
- He succeeded Paddy Ashdown as High Representative in December 2005.
- His tenure as High Representative was from February 2006 to June 2007.
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