Zimbabwean Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Consist | since 1980 | ||
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 Berlin
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| ambassador | Paul Chikawa | ||
| Employee | 6th | ||
| Website | www.zimembassyberlin.com/de | ||
The Zimbabwean Embassy in Berlin is the official diplomatic representation of the Republic of Zimbabwe in Germany. It is located together with the embassies of the Republic of Zambia , the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the Republic of Uganda in the former publisher of the textbook publishing people and knowledge in the Axel-Springer-Straße 54a / Kommandantenstraße 80 in the Berlin district center of the district of the same .
History of diplomatic relations
The Republic of Zimbabwe had diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR since 1980 and had its embassy building at Villichgasse 7 in Bonn (→ entry in the embassy list ) and at Otto-Grotewohl-Strasse 3a (today: Wilhelmstrasse ) in East Berlin . When the federal government moved to Berlin in September 2000, the embassy was the first embassy to move to the Republic of Zambia, the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in the publishing house of the school book publisher Volk und Wissen, which was closed in 1990 . The first ambassador was Hebson Makuvise ; the office of ambassador is currently held by Paul Chikawa .
Architecture of the embassy building
Construction of the Volk und Wissen publishing house began before the Second World War . The U-shaped floor plan of the building was due to its location on Kommandantenstrasse, what was then Lindenstrasse and Beuthstrasse. Six floors with a basement were planned, whereby the sixth floor with the attic was to be set back opposite the main facade, but the building was not completed due to the war. The building had been in the border area between East and West Berlin since 1961 , with the wing on Kommandantenstrasse even reaching into the border strip on the Berlin Wall . A remnant of the border signal fence has been preserved on the building.
The Volk und Wissen publishing house had owned the building in 1952 and had the first and second floors added in 1953. Until 1958, the side wing on Beuthstrasse was continued up to the fourth floor. The architect Werner Ebel was only able to complete this wing up to the sixth floor in 1975 .
In 1994, after German reunification , Waldemar Poreike (1927-2014) redesigned the facade of the building, with the five central axes being slightly arched to emphasize the portal area. Above the fourth floor, a cornice was added, which was made stronger in the central area.
literature
- Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz (ed.): Embassies in Berlin. 2nd ed.; Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2004; Pp. 170-171. ISBN 3-7861-2494-9 .
Web links
- Homepage of the Zimbabwean Embassy in Germany (German, English)
- German Foreign Office with information about the Zimbabwean embassy
Individual evidence
- ↑ | Foreign Office - Representations of Zimbabwe in Germany ; accessed on August 23, 2020
- ↑ Detail on the wing of the building on Kommandantenstrasse at www.chronik-der-mauer.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '31.3 " N , 13 ° 24' 3.7" E