Iranian Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
| Consist | since the 19th century | ||
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 Berlin
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| ambassador | Mahmoud Farazandeh | ||
| Website | website | ||
The Iranian Embassy in Berlin is the official diplomatic representation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Germany. The embassy is located at Podbielskiallee 65-67 in the Berlin district of Dahlem in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . The diplomatic connections between Iran and Germany go back to the imperial era of the German Empire .
History of the mutual diplomatic missions
The ambassadors of Iran, which was still called Persia in the 19th century , initially had their seat in their home in old Berlin . In 1900, for example, the Berlin address book contains the consul Mirza Reza Khan von Arschack with other employees at Moltkestrasse 1.
In 1890, Freiherr Schenck zu Schweinsberg was the German consul general in Tehran .
In the 1920s, a separate embassy building was built in Berlin's Tiergartenstrasse 33 on the former site of a nursery. In this residential area, within walking distance of the Foreign Office , there were numerous other foreign representations .
The missions were interrupted during the two world wars, from 1917 to 1922 ( First World War and the occupation of Iran by Great Britain and Russia ) and from 1941 to 1953 ( Second World War , after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran ).
Between 1949 and 1990, the headquarters of the Iranian Embassy was in Bonn .
In the GDR , the Islamic Republic of Iran had another embassy in East Berlin since 1972 , at 23 Stavanger Strasse in what was then Prenzlauer Berg . It was an embassy building designed by the architect Eckart Schmidt . This diplomatic relationship came to an end with German reunification in 1990.
In the 21st century, Iran has consulates general in Frankfurt am Main , Munich and Hamburg .
The former Berlin property in the Tiergarten has been owned by Saudi Arabia , which had its embassy building built here , since the end of the 20th century .
building
The first Imperial Iranian Embassy in Germany was based in the center of Berlin, as explained above.
The embassy building in Dahlem is a new building with an oriental touch based on plans by the architects Darab Diba and Jahanguir Safavardi. The architects aimed to adapt the Iranian architectural art to the modern structural achievements without imitating a historical building. The symmetrically constructed building is entered via a square entrance hall with a small fountain. The walls are made of light, polished Iranian limestone , the doors are made of light maple wood. Behind the entrance hall runs a long hallway that receives daylight from large skylights . In the middle of the hallway, a flight of stairs leads up to the ambassador's work area. At the end of the hall is the large ballroom, which is decorated with several paintings. Particularly noteworthy are the two paintings by the Iranian artist Ehsaei; intricate Koran -Zitate in orange on a black background.
The opening of the building took place on February 16, 2005 under high security precautions. The German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and the Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Charrazi were present as political dignitaries . Fischer expressed the hope that "the new embassy building [...] could be a visible sign [...] for the beginning of a new chapter in our bilateral relations."
Envoys or ambassadors
The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran and thus the host of the embassy building has been Mahmoud Farazandeh since August 16, 2019. In the past, demonstrations against human rights violations in Iran have taken place in front of the embassy.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Foreign legations . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1900, II, p. 14.
- ↑ Consulates> see Persia . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1890, I.
- ↑ Tiergartenstrasse 33 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1938, IV, p. 890.
- ↑ Berlin . Book plan. 7th edition. VEB Tourist Verlag, Berlin 1988, pp. 53/54.
- ↑ Representations of Iran in Germany - Federal Foreign Office , accessed on December 16, 2019
- ↑ The regime persecutes its critics . Panorama , NDR, October 15, 2009
- ↑ Use during demonstration. Serious allegations against Berlin police officers . In: Berliner Morgenpost , December 12, 2010
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '39.2 " N , 13 ° 17' 59.4" E