In 1895, Johann Friedrich Berndes was the Austro-Hungarian Consul General in Havana.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the ambassadors in Mexico City were also accredited to the governments in Havana.

The Austrian embassy in Havana was opened in 1978 with Peter Hohenfellner as head of the mission.

[1] As of 2018, the embassy is also responsible for Antigua and Barbuda,[2] Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis,[3] St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

[4][5] The current ambassador presented her credentials to President and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel on 12 January 2023, along with the ambassadors of Greece, Colombia, Syria, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Jamaica, Order of Malta, Malta and Gambia.