Austrian Consulate General in Munich
The Austrian Consulate General in Munich goes back to an Imperial and Royal Honorary Consulate opened in 1894 , which was converted into a Consulate General in 1913, existed as the representative authority of the Republic of Austria during the First Republic (1919–1938) and has existed as such since 1956. The consulate general is based in the Bogenhausen district ( Ismaninger Straße 136).
function
The Consulate General is subordinate to the Austrian Embassy in Berlin and is the consular agency of the Republic of Austria for the states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria . It has an independent trading department at Ludwigstrasse 19 ( Maxvorstadt ).
history
Kuk Consulate General
By resolution of May 2, 1894, an Imperial and Royal Honorary Consulate was opened in Munich for the first time, headed by the publisher Alphons Bruckmann (* 1855) - son of Friedrich Bruckmann and heir of the Bruckmann Verlag . On May 12, 1905, Bruckmann received the title of Honorary Consul General ad personam . Due to illness, he was given leave of absence from January 13, 1913 and the office secretary Rheinfelder was entrusted with the exercise of the office. On February 11, 1913, Consul General Friedrich Szwarvasy took over the provisional management of the honorary consulate. By resolution of the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Commerce of June 25, 1913 and the Ministry of Commerce of July 5, 1913, the Honorary Consulate in Munich became an effective (professional) consul on January 4, 1914 with the appointment of the new Consul General Egon Freiherr von Ramberg (1869–1938 ) Consulate General converted. At that time, four rooms in Galeriestraße 17 served as official offices, and from April 1, 1914 the ground floor of Schackstraße 3 in Maxvorstadt with eight rooms. Because of the extra work for the Consulate General as a result of the First World War, two rooms on the second floor of the house had to be rented one after the other in 1916; On September 15, 1916, an apartment on the first floor of the house at Schackstrasse 6 was added as an additional office space, which was replaced at the beginning of 1918 by an apartment on the ground floor of the house at Leopoldstrasse 16.
Consulate General in the First Republic 1919–1938
With the end of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on October 31, 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Consulate General in Munich was liquidated and a provisional head was appointed on December 16, 1918. The office rooms last rented at Leopoldstrasse 16 were given up on March 31, 1919, and the Consulate General, which was in liquidation, itself closed on April 30, 1919. Instead, a German-Austrian Consulate General opened on May 1, 1919 at the former location at Schackstrasse 3; the residence of the consul general was at Brennerstrasse 11. In 1920 the furniture of the former imperial and royal consulate general was divided between the Austrian and the newly opened Hungarian consulate general.
Until at least 1933 the consulate general was located at Schackstrasse 4 with access from Kaulbachstrasse 36; In 1935, this location was replaced by Prinzregentenstrasse 11a with the entrance from Widen Maßerstrasse, while the house at Mauerkircherstrasse 41 served as the residence of the Consul General.
Connection of Austria
In the course of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938, Consul General Ludwig Jordan (1895–1945) , who had been in office for a good two years, received an offer from the Bavarian State Chancellery to leave for Austria on March 11 , which he refused and from the Foreign Office was strengthened. On March 14, the former Austro-Hungarian consul Fillunger penetrated the Consulate General as the alleged assault leader of the Austrian Legion and took a list of the Austrian farmers' associations based in Munich. Jordan informed the Austrian envoy in Berlin about this process and asked whether the consulate general could be closed to party traffic, which he was not allowed to do. On March 14 or 15, on the instructions of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , the Gestapo visited the Consulate General with the intention of securing the files of the representative authority - which Jordan said he had burned on March 11 - and to hand over the encryption key. Jordan gave in to the latter demand after the Bavarian State Chancellery had given an assurance that he would initially be able to remain in office. On March 17, the entire staff of the Consulate General was arrested and Jordan was taken by the Gestapo to the Dachau concentration camp , where he was imprisoned until December 1938.
Consulate General in the Second Republic
After the Second World War , as a result of which the annexation of Austria was abolished and the Second Republic established, an Austrian representation authority was reopened for the first time in Munich in February 1949 in the form of an Austrian liaison office in the American zone of occupation . Its provisional director Simon Koller (1912–1977) carried the title of consul. The junction was located in the Bogenhausen district (Mühlbaurstrasse 8) from the start; it was two apartments made available by the US military administration. Koller's successor was Georg Afuhs (1909–1985) in January 1950. From July 1, 1952, Villa Donaustraße 5 , also in Bogenhausen, was rented by the Federal Finance Administration (Federal Property Office Munich-City) as the official building and residence of the liaison office .
On February 21, 1956, following a resolution by the Council of Ministers at the request of the Foreign Minister, an Austrian Consulate General was opened in Munich by converting the previous liaison office. On January 14, 1972, the Republic of Austria acquired the 2250 m² property of the Consulate General (Donaustraße 5) from the Federal Republic of Germany (Federal Finance Administration) for DM 1,290,000 by means of a purchase agreement ) rented. After the Austrian consulate general in Düsseldorf was closed in 2000, the branch office of the Austrian embassy in Bonn, which took its place for consular tasks in 2006, and the Austrian consulate general in Hamburg in 2010 , the consulate general in Munich is the only professional consular authority alongside the embassy in Berlin the Republic of Austria in Germany. In 2009, the office premises were expanded, with new rooms also being created for the applicants.
Consuls General since 1956
- 1956–1961: Wilhelm Nezbeda
- 1961–1969: Harald Klein
- 1969–1974: Georg Afuhs
- 1975–1983: Friedrich Müllauer
- 1983–1989: Hans Walser
- 1989–1994: Anton Ségur-Cabanac
- 1994–1999: Wernfried Köffler
- 1999–2005: Christian Lassmann
- 2005–2009: Senta Wessely-Steiner
- 2009–2013: Ingrid Pech
- 2013–2017: Helmut Koller
- since 2018: Josef Saiger
See also
literature
- Rudolf Agstner : 130 years of the Austrian Embassy in Berlin: From Moltkestrasse to Stauffenbergstrasse. Handbook of the representative authorities of Austria (Hungary) in Germany since 1720. Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8257-0335-5 , pp. 363-375.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us , Austrian Consulate General in Munich
- ↑ Representations in Austria , Foreign Office
- ^ History , Austrian Consulate General in Munich
- ^ The Consul General , Austrian Consulate General in Munich