Ethiopian Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
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Embassy |
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| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
| Consist | since 1999 | ||
| Headquarters |
 Berlin
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| Ambassador | Mulu Solomon Bezuneh | ||
| Website | www.aethiopien-botschaft.de | ||
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The Ethiopian Embassy in Berlin is the diplomatic representation of Ethiopia in Germany . The embassy building is located at Boothstraße 20a in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . Mulu Solomon Bezuneh has been Ambassador since June 11, 2019.
history
Bilateral relations existed between the German Empire and the Abyssinian Empire as early as 1905 . In 1954 the Ethiopian Embassy in Paris and the Foreign Office in Bonn agreed that the government of Ethiopia at the seat of the Federal Government of Germany would be given a suitable building as the head of mission's chancellery and office. In return, the Federal Republic of Germany received the property of the former German embassy in Addis Ababa for development for diplomatic purposes. In the GDR , Ethiopia had its own embassy at Arnold-Zweig-Straße 10 . After German reunification , a suitable new embassy location was sought in Berlin together with the federal government. A plot of land with a villa in the Lichterfelde district was chosen as the embassy office.
Building history
The embassy building was built in 1936 and 1937 according to plans by the Berlin architect Otto Ortel. The villa was built to look like a country villa and was used as a commandant's building for the American occupation forces after the Second World War .
The first plans to expand the embassy date back to 1997. In November 2002, the Berlin architect Jakob Lehrercke was commissioned to plan an extension. The building is a listed building .
architecture
The building is kept relatively simple and small. It has a high mansard roof . The wide staircase and the portal porch that swings out like a risalit give the embassy villa elegance. The villa is kept simple in the style of the 1930s, the facade looks blocky.
A foyer adjoins the main portal . This is furnished with carved furniture typical of Ethiopia. The ground floor and first floor are used as an office, the top floor was converted into an apartment.
The extension consists of an independent structure in the garden area of the property. This is connected to the winter garden of the main house by a closed arcade. The facade of the extension is opened by two large window fronts. These are framed by three narrow wall strips. One of these takes up the portico.
On the left side of the extension there is an open two-storey hall, on the right there are offices.
See also
literature
- Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz: Embassies in Berlin. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7861-2472-8 , p. 290.
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 5 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 25 ″ E