American Consulate General in Frankfurt
The American Consulate General in Frankfurt represents the interests of the United States of America in West and South Germany and is one of a total of six US representations in Germany . In addition to Hessen, the consular district includes the states of Rhineland-Palatinate , Baden-Württemberg and Saarland . The Consulate General is responsible for the Americans living in the region, especially the many American military personnel stationed in the region and their families. In addition, global functions such as procurement are located there.
Patricia Lacina has been US Consul General in Frankfurt am Main since summer 2018 .; she is the successor to James W. Herman. The consulate is the largest American consulate in terms of both buildings and number of employees and one of the largest missions abroad in the world. A total of around 900 people are employed.
The Frankfurt Consulate General was located at Siesmayerstraße 21 ( Westend ) from 1956 to 2005 . The five-storey building was built between 1953 and 1955 according to plans by the architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill with the assistance of Otto Apel and has been a listed building since 1986. After the Consulate General moved, it was renovated from 2005 to 2007 and has served as an office building ever since.
Since 2005 the consulate has been located in a former US military hospital in the Nordend district on the border with Preungesheim . At this spacious location between Gießener Straße and Homburger Landstraße near the Friedberger Warte , the highest US safety standards can be met.
The Consulate General is closed on both US and German public holidays.
Secret services
On September 8, 2013, German media reported that, in view of a suspected espionage center there, a helicopter of the Federal Police on behalf of the Federal Chancellery and the Federal Ministry of the Interior slowly flew over the consulate premises at a height of 60 m and photographed the buildings and roofs.
In the revelatory series Secret War , NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung reported in the summer of 2013 that the CIA was planning to kidnap terror suspects in black sites on an industrial site in the east of Frankfurt after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . When filming on the public road for Panorama , John Goetz from NDR caught the attention of the security staff and the German police patrols. The US Embassy in Berlin described the research results as "half-truths, speculations and allegations", as well as "monstrous allegations".
On March 7, 2017, WikiLeaks reported that a "hacker unit" called " Vault 7 " of the CIA was operating from here worldwide.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regional Procurement Support Office / Frankfurt (RPSO) ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Consul General Patricia Lacina. Retrieved November 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Listening station in the US consulate? Hahn with questions about eavesdropping ( memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article from August 25, 2013 in the portal hr-online.de , accessed on September 8, 2013 (no longer available)
- ↑ Free trade agreement with the USA: Steinbrück calls for consequences from the spy affair . Article from August 25, 2013 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on September 8, 2013
- ↑ Pofalla peeks back: Head of the Chancellery has the US consulate spied on . Article from September 8, 2013 in the portal focus.de , accessed on September 8, 2013
- ↑ In Frankfurt the police come quickly ( memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The operations of the US services in Germany
- ↑ WikiLeaks
- ↑ Tagesschau from March 7, 2017
- ↑ Article of the Frankfurter Rundschau
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 29.1 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 37.3 ″ E