Embassy of the Tunisian Republic (Bonn)

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Former office building of the embassy and today's consulate general, Godesberger Allee 103 (2014)

The Embassy of the Tunisian Republic in the Federal Republic of Germany was located in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn from 1957 to 1999 . The former office building of the embassy is located in the Friesdorf district on the west side of Godesberger Allee ( Bundesstrasse 9 ) with the address Godesberger Allee 103. Today it is home to a Tunisian consulate general .

history

After the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, the Tunisian Republic opened an embassy at the Bonn government seat on November 15, 1957 with the accreditation of its ambassador . The office of the embassy was based in Bad Godesberg, the main focus of the diplomatic missions, at Kölner Strasse 103 (today Godesberger Allee 103). A house in the Bad Godesberg district of Rüngsdorf (Fasanenstraße 11) also served as the residence of the embassy, ​​the ambassador's residence . In 1971 a Tunisian consulate general was founded in Bonn, which was initially located in the embassy building, at the beginning of 1977 it was converted into a simple consulate based in the Rüngsdorf district (Rüngsdorfer Straße 6) and moved to Düsseldorf in December 1980 .

In the embassy building previously was in Hamburg resident unofficial representative of the Algerian war occurring (1954-1962) as an independence movement against France National Liberation Front (FLN) home, which acted as the implementing agency for Europe. On November 5, 1958, the FLN representative, the lawyer Améziane Aït Ahcène (1931–1959), who had been sent to Bonn three months earlier, was shot in his car in front of the building on his last day in office and died a few months later in Tunis ; The terrorist organization La Main Rouge (Red Hand) operated by the French secret service with the participation of the Mouvement national algérien (MNA), which rivaled the FLN, was possibly responsible for the crime . It was one of the first political assassinations in the history of the Federal Republic. At the end of December 1959 there was an attack by an armed man on the embassy building, which is also assigned to the Red Hand. In March 1960 France tried in vain to officially close the FLN representation and was supported in this by the Foreign Office . After a stay at home in April 1960, the then Tunisian ambassador took over the management of the FLN and its military arm ALN for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1961, the chief representative of the FLN moved to the Moroccan embassy. After Algeria gained independence in 1962, the Tunisian embassy took care of the country's consular interests in the Federal Republic, with the exception of North Rhine-Westphalia, until the Algerian embassy opened in June 1963 after diplomatic relations had been established between the two countries.

In the course of relocating the seat of government , the Tunisian embassy moved to Berlin in 1999 . In Bonn there was still a military department of the embassy until 2005 (district Friesdorf, Frankengraben 10). The consulate previously located in Düsseldorf was relocated to the former chancellery building of the embassy in 2005, and in November 2006 it was elevated to the rank of consulate general. The consular district includes the states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland ; it is currently the only Tunisian consulate general in Germany (as of 2020).

See also

literature

  • Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine. Ortiz-Lunscken Publishers, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-9806801-0-X , pp. 112/113. [with photos of the former ambassador's residence]

Web links

Commons : Godesberger Allee 101–103  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. according to the property map Godesberger Allee 101–103; until 1977 Kölner Strasse 103
  2. Hilda Ortiz Lunscken (ed.); Hilda Ortiz Lunscken, Ingeborg Fischer-Dieskau (Photos: Martin Krockauer): Pour Memoire. To Remind. As a reminder - ambassadorial residences on the Rhine.
  3. Mohamed Néjib Bouraoui: The bilateral relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Tunisia in the political, economic, social and cultural field , MN Bouraoui, 1987, p. 129.
  4. AIT AHCENE , Der Spiegel , May 6, 1959
  5. Suddenly shots rang out from a black car , Hamburger Abendblatt , November 6, 1958
  6. Mercier went through town , Der Spiegel , November 19, 1958
  7. Claus Leggewie : Luggage carrier: The Algeria project of the left in Adenauer Germany . Rotbuch, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88022-286-X , p. 45.
  8. Luggage carrier: the Algeria project of the left in Adenauer Germany , Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88022-286-X , p. 185.
  9. Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, Matthias Ritzi: In the shadow of the Third Reich: the BND and its agent Richard Christmann , Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-643-7 , p. 188/189.
  10. Klaus Jürgen Müller: Bonn between Paris and the Arabs - The Federal Republic and the Algerian War 1954–1962 . In: Volker J Bergeest (ed.): Liber amicorum for Gerrit Winter , Verlag Versicherungswirtschaft, Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 978-3-89952-338-6 , pp. 51-61 (here: pp. 58 ff.).
  11. Representation of Algerian consular interests in the Federal Republic of Germany from September 26, 1962 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1962 No. 41 , p. 1378 , 1116 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 3.6 MB ]).
  12. Addresses of the diplomatic and consular missions in Germany (PDF file; 538 kB), as of May 3, 2005.
  13. Professional consular mission of the Tunisian Republic, Bonn - Bek. D. Prime Minister v. December 15, 2006 - III A 2 03.50-2 / 05 . In: Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) , 2007 edition No. 1 of January 9, 2007
  14. ^ Representations in Tunisia , Federal Foreign Office

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