Embassy of the Republic of Korea (Bonn)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Former office building of the South Korean Embassy, Adenauerallee 124 (2013)
Villa Camphausen , 1985–1999 residence of the ambassador (2013)

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in the Federal Republic of Germany was based in Bonn from 1958 to 1999 , with a branch office to this day.

history

After the end of the Korean War in 1953, the South Korean government decided to deepen its relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. Therefore, in 1954, she opened a consulate general , which took its seat in the town of Remagen, south of the Federal German seat of government Bonn, in the house on Leims . The dispatched consul general Hanho Rhi achieved - without the knowledge of his government - that it was recognized by the Federal Republic as a commercial agency of the Republic of Korea and thus received diplomatic status. After Rhis was recalled in the summer of 1956, the consulate general remained under his successor as consul in the house on Leims until it was relocated to Cologne in the autumn of that year .

After the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957, the Republic of Korea opened an embassy instead of the consulate general at the seat of government in Bonn, which received the status of an embassy in 1958 . From the start, the embassy chancellery was based in Bonn's parliamentary and government district in Villa Adenauerallee 124 at Bundesstrasse 9 . At first it also served as the embassy residence, the ambassador's residence; this was relocated several times in the following time, at the latest in 1966 to the then Holzlarer district Kohlkaul (Bergstrasse 54, today Siebengebirgsstrasse), at the latest in 1968 to Bad Godesberg in the HICOG settlement Plittersdorf (Europastrasse 6), in 1969 to the Bonn district of Kessenich (Graf- Stauffenberg-Straße 21), in 1971/72 in the Bad Godesberg district of Rüngsdorf (Rolandstraße 39b) and in 1974 in the Bad Godesberg district of Muffendorf (Klosterbergstraße 111). In the 1960s, under Counselor Yang , the embassy office was the subject of KCIA activities that included the kidnapping of Korean citizens. At the beginning of 1985 the Republic of Korea acquired the Villa Camphausen in the district of Mehlem in order to set up the new residence of the embassy there. The defense technology department of the embassy was last (as of 1995) located in the district of Südstadt (Reuterstraße 161) and the press and culture department in the district of Plittersdorf ( Hochkreuzallee 1 ), while the office remained at Adenauerallee 124.

Branch office of the embassy until 2014, Mittelstrasse 43 (2014)
Branch office of the embassy since 2014, Godesberger Allee 142–148 (2014)

In the course of the relocation of the seat of government , the headquarters of the South Korean embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 (→ Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Berlin ). A branch office of the embassy was left in Bonn, initially in the former office building of the embassies of Norway and Malaysia in the Plittersdorf district (Mittelstrasse 43). The head of the branch office initially lived in Villa Camphausen as the former ambassador's residence, but it was sold in 2003. On June 1, 2014, the branch within Bonn moved to the “Andreas-Hermes-Haus” in the Hochkreuz district ( Godesberger Allee 142–148). It is led by an envoy as the head of the branch and is also equipped with three embassy councilors and three embassy secretaries (as of August 2020). The consular district includes the states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . The branch office is also responsible for diplomatic contact with the federal ministries, authorities and UN organizations based in Bonn .

See also

Web links

Commons : Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Bonn  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Federal Republic of Germany - bilateral relations
  2. ↑ 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. 242.
  3. ↑ to 1967 Koblenzer Straße 124
  4. ^ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (status: January 1964, June 1966, December 1968, June 1969, December 1971, May 1972); List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of September 1974)
  5. ↑ Lage des K. , Der Spiegel , August 28, 1967
  6. ↑ Heiner Emde: Treason and Espionage in Germany: Texts, Images, Documents , Ringier, 1980, p. 206
  7. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
  8. ↑ We're moving ( Memento from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Federal Republic of Germany - Bonn branch, May 6, 2014
  9. ↑ List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany (PDF) (as of August 6, 2020), Federal Foreign Office
  10. ^ Greetings from the Consul General and Head ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Federal Republic of Germany - Bonn branch

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 2.6 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 18.1 ″  E