Embassy of the Republic of India (Bonn)

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Former Embassy of the Republic of India, Willy-Brandt-Allee 16 (2013)
Former Embassy of the Republic of India, Willy-Brandt-Allee 18 (2013)
Aerial view of the Marienforst estate, on the left the former residence of the embassy (2013)

The Embassy of the Republic of India in the Federal Republic of Germany had its seat in Bonn from 1951 to 1999 , with a branch office until 2002. The former offices of the embassy , two listed villas from 1911 and 1912, are located in the district of Gronau an der Willy- Brandt-Allee ( B9 ; house numbers 16 /18).

history

Receipt of the Indian embassy in 1960

India was one of the eleven states that had been accredited with a diplomatic mission for the Federal Republic of Germany to the Allied High Commission at the seat of government in Bonn since December 15, 1949 . The mission was initially subordinate to the Indian military mission in Berlin , which was originally accredited to the Allied Control Council, and was led by the head of this mission, General Khub Chand. At the latest after India became the first country to end the state of war with Germany on January 1, 1951 and India had established diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic, the mission was moved to Bonn. The mission's office was located in Villa Koblenzer Strasse 262 (today Willy-Brandt-Allee 16) on the edge of the new parliament and government district. In November 1951 the mission received embassy status. The residence of the embassy, ​​residence of the ambassador , was the Villa Rondorfer Strasse 9 in the Cologne district of Marienburg from the beginning . By the early 1960s (1961 at the latest) the office was expanded to include the neighboring villa at Koblenzer Straße 264 (today Willy-Brandt-Allee 18), built according to a design by the Bad Godesberg architect Willy Maß . The offices of the Indian military and marine attachés and the cultural attachés were temporarily (as of 1958–1960) located in the nearby twin villa Heussallee 18/20 , the cultural department (as of 1966) in the Südstadt district (Reuterstraße 187). In 1969 the residence of the embassy in Cologne-Marienburg was moved to the Bad Godesberg district of Schweinheim (Belderbuschstrasse 1), and in 1974/75 within the same district to the Villa Marienforst . In March 1982 India acquired the office building at Adenauerallee 262 (today Willy-Brandt-Allee 16). In the 1990s, all departments of the embassy except the office were located outside the office building in the Gronau district (Baunscheidtstraße 7).

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the Indian embassy moved there in October 1999 (→ Indian embassy in Berlin ). In Bonn, Willy-Brandt-Allee was initially 16 (corner Rheinweg) a branch of the message including the building Consular - one of three consular authorities of India in Germany in addition to the embassy in Berlin - left, whose consular district the countries of Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia consisted . The branch office recently issued around 33,000 visas a year - 50% of the visas for German tourists to India - and over 800 passports, making a profit as one of only 21 Indian representations worldwide at the time. In May 2002 the consular section of the branch office was closed and instead the consular district of the Indian consulate general in Frankfurt am Main was expanded to include North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria was added to the consular district of the newly opened consulate general in Munich . In April 2005 the Indian government put the former embassy building in Bonn up for sale. The closure of the branch office and the sale of the building met with widespread resistance in the Indian community due to the high number of Indian citizens in North Rhine-Westphalia, which also resulted in a signature campaign . The earlier use of the building by the embassy still indicates stucco work with Indian motifs and ornaments on its facade facing the Rhine.

See also

Web links

Commons : Embassy of the Republic of India (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), numbers A 319 and A 250
  2. ↑ to 1967 Koblenzer Straße 262/264 , 1967–1999 Adenauerallee 262/264
  3. ^ Helmut Vogt : Foreign missions in Bonn . In: Guardians of the Bonn Republic. The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , pp. 156–160.
  4. ↑ Johannes H. Voigt : The Indian policy of the GDR: from the beginnings to recognition (1952–1972) . In: Stuttgart historical research , Volume 5, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-18106-2 , p. 6.
  5. ↑ The Guide for Press and Advertising, Volume 4 , W. Stamm, 1951, p. 427.
  6. ↑ Diplomatic and other official foreign missions as well as representations of international organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of March 1, 1954). In: Federal Ministry of Finance (Ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1954, p. 382 ff.
  7. ^ Joachim Heidrich: GDR – India: Temporary Partners: Experiences and Insights . In: The GDR and the Third World , Volume 4, Lit, 1998, ISBN 978-3-8258-3219-3 , pp. 25, 73.
  8. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 226.
  9. ↑ Federal Ministry of Finance (ed.): Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1078.
  10. ^ Stamm-Leitfaden durch Presse und Werbung , Stamm-Verlag, 1961, p. X.
  11. ^ Annual directory through press and advertising (Stamm-Leitfaden durch Presse und Werbung), Volume 11, Stamm-Verlag, 1958, p. 685
  12. ↑ Yearbook for Foreign Policy , A. Gross, 1960, p. 164
  13. ^ List of diplomatic missions and commercial missions of foreign countries in the Federal Republic of Germany] (as of February 1, 1966) . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1966 No. 27 , p. 872 , Annex 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  14. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of June 1969, December 1969)
  15. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of September 1974, June 1975)
  16. ↑ a b Property Management by Ministry of External Affairs ( Memento from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Report No. 17 of 2015, p. 15
  17. ↑ a b NRIs fume over embassy building sale in Bonn , The Times of India, 10 June 2005
  18. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of March 1992
  19. ^ Stamm-Leitfaden durch Presse und Werbung , Stamm Verlag GMBH, 1998, p. 251.
  20. ↑ India Handbook , Trade & Travel Publications, 2002, p. 37.
  21. ^ Consular Services ( Memento of August 20, 2000 in the Internet Archive ), Embassy of India - Berlin, Germany
  22. ^ Consular Services ( Memento of February 6, 2002 in the Internet Archive ), Embassy of India - Berlin, Germany
  23. ↑ Indian IT experts are not only looking for well-paid jobs , Der Tagesspiegel , September 1, 2000
  24. ↑ Diplomatic missions and consular missions in the Federal Republic of Germany , status: September 2002 (Bundesanzeiger Verlag, ISSN  1616-9468 )
  25. ↑ Bek. D. Prime Minister v. April 16, 2002 - III.3-02.01-1 / 02: Consulate General of the Republic of India, Frankfurt / Main , Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) - Edition 2002 No. 31 of June 14, 2002, p. 556
  26. ↑ Consulate General of India - Munich, Germany queried on November 3, 2015
  27. ^ Protest against shifting of Indian Embassy , The Hindu, December 24, 2000
  28. ↑ Indians protest against relocation of the consular section , General-Anzeiger , December 18, 2000

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 10.4 ″  E