American Consulate General in Munich

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American Consulate General in Munich

The US Consulate General in Munich is located at Koeniginstrasse 5. The architect of the building, which was built in the 1950s, is Sep Ruf .

General

The Consulate General represents the interests of the United States of America in Bavaria and offers its services to all Americans living in Bavaria . The focus is on the intensification and expansion of Bavarian-American relations. In addition to the Consul General as the head of the entire authority, the Consulate General in Munich includes departments

  • of the US Foreign Trade Service
  • for politics, economy and the environment
  • for public relations
  • for consular services (which is responsible for US citizens living in Bavaria and non-immigrant visas)
  • as well as for administrative matters.

The Consulate General is closed on US, German and Bavarian public holidays.

Building and previous building

The Consulate General in Munich is the third largest diplomatic location of the United States in Germany. The building is the last of the US consulates built in Germany in the 1950s that is still in operation. Originally, like all these consulates, it was to be built according to plans by the architectural office Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) in accordance with a standardized design for the whole of Germany, but the Munich city council rejected the plans. The Bavarian architect Sep Ruf was called in and revised the plans several times. Finally, he submitted a completely separate, modern design, which was accepted. The building was constructed from 1957 to 1959 and is now recognized as a cultural monument . Until a bombing raid in April 1944, the building designed by August Endell for the Elvira studio of the photographers Sophia Goudstikker and Anita Augspurg stood here . After the end of the war, the Free State of Bavaria acquired the property and left it to the USA.

Web links

Commons : Consulate General of the United States in Munich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life - Structure on sep-ruf.com
  2. ^ H. Wichmann: Sep Ruf, Buildings and Projects. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1986
  3. ↑ Edgard Haider: Lost splendor - stories of destroyed buildings. Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2006. ISBN 978-3-8067-2949-8 , p. 148 ff

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 42.7 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 1 ″  E