Latvian Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | government | ||
| Consist | since 1921–1940, resumed in 1991 | ||
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 Berlin
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| Ambassador | Inga Skujina | ||
| Website | http://www.mfa.gov.lv/de/berlin/ | ||
The Latvian Embassy in Berlin (officially Embassy of the Republic of Latvia , Latvian Latvijas Republikas vēstniecība ) is the head of the diplomatic representation of Latvia in Germany. The embassy building is located at Reinerzstraße 40/41 in the Berlin district of Schmargendorf in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . The Latvian Embassy in Berlin is also subordinate to honorary consulates in Bremen , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Künzelsau , Munich and Rostock . Inga Skujina has been the ambassador since August 29, 2017 .
history
As the first envoy of the Republic of Latvia in Berlin, Oskars Voits presented the letter of credence to President Friedrich Ebert on November 22, 1921 . The embassy of the Republic of Latvia was located at Burggrafenstrasse 13 (near the Wittenbergplatz underground station ).
As a result of the secret additional protocol to the German-Soviet non-aggression pact (Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact) of August 23, 1939, Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 . The legation building and the property were transferred from the German Reich to the Soviet Union, after the beginning of the war between the German Reich and the Soviet Union - to the German Reich. The building was destroyed during the war, and after the war the property was assigned to the Berlin Senate due to the complicated ownership structure. Latvians in exile had maintained legal rights to the property from their private funds for several decades, but in the 1980s they gave it up and sold their rights to the property.
After regaining national independence in 1991, the representation of Latvia (also Estonia and Lithuania) was initially housed in the premises of the Baltic Information Office in Bonn, Berta von Suttner-Platz . The information office was opened in September 1991 after the German Bundestag voted in favor of its establishment in June 1991, even before the Baltic states officially regained independence.
On September 23, 1992, the government of Latvia decided to buy an embassy building in Bonn , at Adenauerallee 110, directly opposite the Foreign Office . The official opening of the Bonn embassy took place in April 1993.
In the summer of 1999 the embassy moved to the new federal capital, Berlin - to Berlin-Schmargendorf , where the property and building at Reinerzstrasse 40/41 were purchased. The current embassy building was built in the 1920s as a town villa for the Schöndorff Chamber of Commerce. The opening ceremony of the Berlin embassy building took place on June 29, 2000 with the participation of the President of the Republic of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga .
Ambassador to Germany
See also the list of Latvian ambassadors in Germany
| Term of office | Surname |
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| 1921-1932 | Oskars Voits |
| 1932-1935 | Edgars Krieviņš |
| 1935-1938 | Hugo Celmiņš |
| 1938-1940 | Edgars Krieviņš |
| 1991 | Resumption of diplomatic relations |
| 1992-1994 | Egils Levits |
| 1994-1997 | Andris Ķesteris |
| 1997-2002 | Andris Teikmanis |
| 2002-2008 | Mārtiņš Virsis |
| 2008-2013 | Ilgvar's Kļava |
| 2013-2017 | Elita Kuzma |
| since 2017 | Inga Skujina |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Embassy of Latvia.Retrieved December 10, 2017
- ↑ History of the Message. Retrieved February 6, 2017 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 2.8 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 10.4 ″ E