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Fernand Kartheiser (born 30 September 1959) is a Luxembourgish politician for the Alternative Democratic Reform Party and former diplomat.

After finishing secondary school in 1978 at the Lycée Michel Rodange in Luxembourg City, Kartheiser studied social and military sciences at the École royale militaire in Brussels (1982) and history at the University of Montpellier. He graduated in 1984 with the Diplôme d'études approfondies. He then attended the Diplomatische Akademie und das Institut für Lateinamerikanische Studien in Wien (1986). 1989 promovierte er an der Universität Montpellier III über Le Luxembourg et la Guerre de Corée (25 juin 1950 - 27 juillet 1953). From 1983 to 1989 he was an officer in the Luxembourg Army and then entered the diplomatic service. There he worked for the Directorate of Political and Cultural Affairs in Luxembourg, for the embassy in Bonn, and as Deputy Permanent Representative at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna. Then he became ambassador to Greece, Cyprus and Rumania, before taking up a post in the foreign ministry in Luxembourg in 2009. Since 2009 he has been a Deputy for the ADR, and also served as its president in 2012. In 2011-2012 he was also a member of the communal council of Luxembourg City. He was active in the Association des hommes du Luxembourg (Association of Men of Luxembourg), first as its secretary (2006-2008), then as president, before it entered an alliance in 2009 with the ADR.

Fernand Kartheiser hat an der Veröffentlichung des Werkes Le Luxembourg et l'ONU (1995) und an einer politischen und diplomatischen Analyse des Koreakonfliktes (Brüssel 2000) mitgewirkt. Im Rahmen seines Einsatzes für die Rechte der Männer schrieb er das antifeministische Werk Kritik der reinen Unvernunft. Zur Feminisierung der Sprache (Esch/Alzette 2007).