Embassy of Yugoslavia (Bonn)

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Former office building of the Yugoslav embassy (2013)

The embassy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the Federal Republic of Germany was located in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn from 1951 to 1992 . The former office building of the embassy , built in 1978, is located in the Mehlem district on Schlossallee (house number 5). After the state was dissolved, it was the seat of the embassy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 1999 . The property is to be sold since 2017.

history

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was one of the 18 states that had opened a diplomatic mission in the Federal Republic of Germany at the seat of government in Bonn by April 1, 1951 . The embassy chancellery was based in Bad Godesberg from the start, initially at Kölner Strasse 107 with individual departments across the city. Until September 1954, it was based in the Bad Godesberg district of Mehlem in the former "Hotel Villa Friede" (Schloßstraße 1), which was built at the beginning of the 20th century and was home to an emergency hospital during World War II. After Yugoslavia recognized the German Democratic Republic (GDR) under international law on October 15, 1957 , the Federal Republic for its part interrupted diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia on October 19, 1957. As a result, the embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden, acting as a protecting power for Yugoslavia, took care of business for the country from the previous location of the Yugoslav embassy (Schloßstraße 1) with a "Department for the Perception of Yugoslav Interests in the Federal Republic of Germany" (protecting power representation). The resumption of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic and Yugoslavia took place on January 31, 1968.

On November 29, 1962 - the Yugoslav national holiday - 26 members of Croatian emigrant organizations , including the Croatian Cruiser Brotherhood , carried out a robbery and an explosive attack on the building of the Yugoslav representation, in which the caretaker was shot and the building was damaged and devastated, among other things by arson . The Yugoslav government responded with a protest and a demand for damages. The attack triggered a review and more intensive criminal prosecution of the emigrant organizations active in the Federal Republic of Germany; in March 1963 the cruiser brotherhood was banned and dissolved. In March 1964, the trial against those involved in the attack began before the Bonn Regional Court ; the verdicts were passed on June 25, 1964.

When the Yugoslav government began to adjust to a longer presence at the Bonn seat of government, it planned in the mid-1970s to build a new embassy office in the immediate vicinity of the previous location, the former "Hotel Villa Friede". It was built to the east of and parallel to this building on Schlossallee as a two-story reinforced concrete structure with a usable area of 2,300 m² and an underground car park with around 40 parking spaces. The new building was completed in 1978, after which the previous office building was demolished. From 1969, a rented house on a hillside in the Schweinheim district (Am Stadtwald 16) served as the embassy residence, the ambassador's residence .

After the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in April 1992, from took over Serbia and Montenegro newly formed Federal Republic of Yugoslavia the office building of the embassy, while Slovenia as another country of the former SFRY the Ambassador received (the city forest, 16) to 1993, the previous residence. On March 26, 1999, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia broke off diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany due to German participation in the NATO air raids on the country ( Operation Allied Force ). The Yugoslav interests in Germany were then represented by the Swedish embassy as a protection agency with an office for the protection of the interests of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from the previous location of the Yugoslav embassy; after the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), a branch of the office remained there, which was converted into a branch of the Yugoslav embassy after the resumption of diplomatic relations with Germany. The former office building of the embassy has been vacant since this branch office was closed, and the sale of the property - in which the Chinese artist Ren Rong , owner of the adjacent Villa Friede, is also interested - has so far failed due to the unclear ownership structure. In 2017, however, the successor states of Yugoslavia commissioned a broker to sell the property. Of these, only North Macedonia has a branch office of its embassy in Bonn.

See also

Web links

Commons : Embassy of Yugoslavia (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Former Yugoslav embassy is being sold , General-Anzeiger , September 27, 2017
  2. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4": The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 224 f.
  3. ↑ today Godesberger Allee
  4. ^ Address book of the city of Bad Godesberg 1951 , JF Carthaus, Bonn 1951, p. 186. ( online ULB Bonn )
  5. ↑ Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1952, p. 1078; Official journal for Schleswig Holstein. Born in 1952 . State administration Schleswig-Holstein, Office for the Interior, 1952, p. 455.
  6. ↑ Diplomatic and other official foreign missions as well as representations of international organizations in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of September 1954). In: Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1954, p. 1554 ff.
  7. ↑ since 1978 Schlossallee (→ entry in the Bonn street cadastre
  8. ^ A b Karl-Friedrich Amendt: The incorporation of Mehlem 70 years ago . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 42 (2004), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2005, pp. 124–149 (here: p. 135 ).
  9. ^ 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. 238.
  10. ↑ Rainer A. Blasius, Mechthild Lindemann, Ilse Dorothee Pautsch (ed.): Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. January 1 to March 31, 1965 , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1996, ISBN 978-3-486-56071-8 , p. 698.
  11. ↑ “We cannot forget…” , Die Zeit , March 20, 1964; Unified by Dynamite , Der Spiegel , April 29, 1964
  12. ↑ Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1963, p. 417; Negotiations of the German Bundestag: Stenographic reports. Annexes to the shorthand reports. Drucksachen , Volume 114, 1967, p. 70; German Foreign Policy , Volume 9, Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, Academy for Political Science and Law of the GDR. Institute for International Relations, Rütten & Loening, 1964, p. 961; Heinrich Siegler: Documentation on the question of Germany: from the Atlantic Charter in 1941 to the Berlin Barrier in 1961 , Volume 3, Siegler, 1961, p. 421; Kurt Rückmann: Murder on the Way of the Cross: Cases that excited the world , Deutscher Militärverlag, 1968, p. 143; Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1963: January 1 to May 31, 1963, Volume 1 , R. Oldenbourg, 1994, ISBN 978-3-486-55964-4 , p. 677.
  13. ^ Michael Wenzel: Small stories Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, p. 55.
  14. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (status: July 1978, October 1978)
  15. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of December 1969)
  16. ↑ Boris Frlec: A contribution to the creation of Slovenian diplomacy
  17. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of December 1993
  18. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany , as of April 1995
  19. ↑ Representations of foreign countries responsible for Germany ( Memento of September 1, 2000 in the Internet Archive ), Foreign Office
  20. ↑ Representations of foreign countries responsible for Germany ( Memento of June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (as of: September 6, 2001), Foreign Office
  21. ↑ Large hall of the Villa Friede becomes a cultural center , General-Anzeiger , August 5, 2011
  22. ^ Federal Foreign Office - Representations of North Macedonia

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 48.6 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 31.5 ″  E