Egyptian Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
| Consist | since 1925 | ||
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 Berlin
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| ambassador | HE Khaled Galal Abdelhamid (since October 2019) |
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| Website | www.egyptian-embassy.de | ||
The Egyptian Embassy in Berlin is the official diplomatic representation of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Germany. It is located at Stauffenbergstraße 6/7 in the embassy district of the Berlin district of Tiergarten ( Mitte district ). The ambassador has been HE Khaled Galal Abdelhamid since October 2019.
Development of diplomatic relations
Germany before 1945
The German Reich had had diplomatic relations with the then Kingdom of Egypt since 1925. The ambassador had his residence in the district of Grunewald , Delbrückstraße 8. In 1929 the company moved to Tiergartenstraße 18b. Consul General, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary was Seifoullah Yousry Pasha in 1930. In the 1940s, the Egyptian state bought the property and an area on Stauffenbergstrasse, where the embassy has been standing again since 1999. During the Second World War and in the following decades, diplomatic relations between Egypt and Germany were partially interrupted and only guaranteed by a presence office.
Old Federal Republic
After the war, diplomatic relations between the countries had to be reorganized. The Federal Republic of Germany sent its ambassador, who in 1952 and his team moved into the Isis Building in the Garden City district of Cairo . In 1955 the embassy in Dokki moved to the Sharia Boulos Hanna . At the end of the 1970s, the Federal Republic of Germany bought almost 6000 m² of land on the island of Zamalek in the Nile , on which the new embassy was built and moved into in 1982. The former Sharia Hassan Sabri in the Zamalek district was renamed Sharia Berlin in autumn 2003.
It was not until 1972 that Egypt sent its ambassador back to the Federal Republic. At that time, the Egyptian embassy was in what was then the federal capital of Bonn (see entry in the embassy list ).
German Democratic Republic
From the 1970s there was also an embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in the GDR in East Berlin , initially at Warmbader Strasse 50–52 in the Lichtenberg district, Karlshorst . The street was later named Robert-Siewert-Straße, and the villa used by the embassy is now a listed building. It was a building that was built in 1937/1938.
Soon thereafter, the company moved to the then Pankow district to street 22 , house number 3 and finally to a three-storey, simple new building in Waldstraße 15 in the Pankow district of Niederschönhausen . A trade office attached to the embassy was located at Friedrichstrasse 153 (in the international trade center ).
After German reunification
After the fall of the Berlin Wall , German reunification and the decision of the German Bundestag in 1991 to relocate the core area of the federal government to Berlin, the Egyptian embassy also moved to the federal capital in 1999. She initially used her property on Stauffenbergstrasse and sold the site on Tiergartenstrasse to finance the construction of a new embassy building. During the construction phase (1999–2001) the embassy staff moved into the house in Niederschönhausen again for a short time and a building in the district of Charlottenburg was rented as the ambassador's residence .
The military department of the embassy remained in Bonn, as the Federal Ministry of Defense has its first official seat in the former federal capital under the Berlin / Bonn Act .
Relations between Egypt and Germany in the 21st century are characterized by intensive cooperation. In addition to more general political interests, this is primarily due to the mutual trade position; Germany is Egypt's second most important trading partner after the USA , while Egypt is Germany's third largest trading partner in the Arab region after Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates . In addition, Egypt is one of the countries in which Germany carries out intensive development cooperation.
Architecture of the embassy building
For the new building of the embassy in Berlin, a competition was announced in Egypt in 1998, which Samir Rabie from Cairo was able to win. His designs were carried out from 1999 to 2001 by Kendel Architects in Berlin. According to the architect, the construction costs amounted to 23 million euros.
The building consists of three cubes of different heights , which are joined together by cladding made of polished red granite to form a unit. The building is structured by vertical ribbon windows. The main entrance is on the front of the building on Stauffenbergstrasse and is characterized by colored glazing over three floors. On both sides of the entrance there are narrow window strips which vertically take up almost the entire height of the building.
The main part of the facade is windowless and designed by a relief milled into the polished stone surface . This shows a representation of the Nile , symbolized by wavy lines in the lower area , from which lotus plants rise as symbolic plants of Upper Egypt and papyrus grass as symbol for Lower Egypt . Between the papyrus representations there are reliefs of bowls supported on pillars, in which there are winged beings. These are modeled on the ancient Egyptian god Horus , who was depicted as a falcon in reliefs. The overall picture is limited by a bar with hieroglyphics , which represents the sky.
In front of the Egyptian embassy, a painted bear-shaped statue was erected in 2002 as a hollow figure made of GRP (so-called " buddy bear ").
See also
literature
- Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz (ed.): Embassies in Berlin. 2nd Edition. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7861-2494-9 , pp. 188-189.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Egyptian Embassy
- ↑ Foreign consulates general and consulates in Berlin . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, part 3, p. 17.
- ↑ Dokki in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ Chancellery and Residence. ( Memento from March 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) German Embassy in Cairo
- ↑ Messages . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1977, part 7, p. 69.
- ↑ Architectural monument at Robert-Siewert-Strasse 50/52, villa, garage, enclosure and garden, 1937
- ^ Diplomatic and other representations . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1986, part 6, p. 90.
- ↑ Katharina Fleischmann: Messages with messages. Dissertation at the Geosciences Faculty of the Free University of Berlin, June 2005. PDF; Appendix 3. According to the Federal Foreign Office
- ^ Relations between Egypt and Germany Foreign Office
- ↑ Gitta Warnemünde: Solid as a rock - the building of the Egyptian embassy . In: Pharaohs on the Spree: Egyptian architecture and sculpture in Berlin . tape 1 . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-1242-2 , p. 119 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 10, 2016]).
- ↑ Birgitta Melten: Bearish deity should be an ambassador . Website of Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH from June 1st, 2002.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 31.3 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 48" E