Bulgarian Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
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 Berlin
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| Ambassador |
Elena Shekerletova (since 2019) |
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| Employee | 14 (summer 2015) | ||
| Website | Bulgarian Embassy | ||
The Bulgarian Embassy in Germany is located in the Wall Street 11 and the Leipziger Strasse in Berlin district center of the district of the same . The embassy is the diplomatic representation of Bulgaria in Germany and is responsible for all concerns of Bulgarians in Germany .
Bulgaria also has a consulate general in Munich , a consulate in Frankfurt am Main and honorary consulates in Hamburg , Magdeburg , Münster , Darmstadt and Stuttgart .
history
Beginnings in the 20th century
Diplomatic treaties had existed with the Bulgarian Tsarist Empire since the 1920s. Germany had its diplomats in the cities of Sofia ( Minister Rumelin, Consul Lindenblatt), Rustschuk (Vice Consul Karl Burges) and Varna (Consul Fridolin Zwicky).
Bulgaria maintained its embassy or embassy office at Kurfürstendamm 257 ; The ambassador was M. Popoff. The consulate general with N. Caro as head of the authority was located at Schadowstrasse 4/5.
After the Second World War
In the DDR
After the Second World War , the embassy of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in the GDR was housed in Villa Garbáty in the Pankow district. The villa was originally the residence of the Jewish cigarette manufacturer Josef Garbáty . The villa was used as the residence of the Bulgarian ambassador to the GDR until 1990. However, a new building was built for the embassy staff at the beginning of the 1980s. This was based on the planning of a German-Bulgarian architects' collective consisting of SOF Projekt Sofia and VEB BMK Ingenieurhochbau Berlin . The reinforced concrete skeleton construction was completed in 1983 in what was then the center of East Berlin on Leipziger Strasse .
Apart from the Czechoslovak embassy in Berlin, the building was the most important new embassy building in the GDR in the 1980s. In addition to the business premises, the building complex also contained apartments for embassy staff and a hotel. The cubature is partly shaped by the principles of socialist town planning . The building does not have any perimeter block development , so that there are green spaces along the streets. The embassy rooms in the building complex are highlighted by a differentiated facade design.
In the Federal Republic
In 1964, the Federal Republic of Germany initially agreed with the People's Republic of Bulgaria to set up a commercial agency in Frankfurt am Main . Since 1973 it has been based in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn . From this the official embassy developed, which resided here from 1975 to 1999.
Since 1999
After German reunification and the move of the new German government from Bonn to Berlin in accordance with the Bonn-Berlin Act , the Bulgarian embassy building in East Berlin was modernized and the Bulgarian diplomatic representatives moved here again in 1999.
On the lawn between the embassy and Mauerstraße stands the sculpture Breaking Walls by the Bulgarian artist Georgi Tschapkanow , which is intended to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall . The four meter high bronze sculpture stands on a polished granite base and shows two human figures. The sculpture was made for the location in front of the embassy and financed with donations. The list took place in 2006 for the Bulgarian national holiday.
See also
literature
- Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz (ed.): Embassies in Berlin . 2nd Edition. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7861-2494-9 , pp. 47-49.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ^ German legations abroad . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, part 3, p. 9.
- ^ Foreign embassies in Germany . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, part 3, p. 8.
- ↑ Foreign diplomatic missions . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1921, part 2, p. 4.
- ↑ Georgi Tschapkanow - Breaking Walls (2006). In front of the Bulgarian Embassy on the corner of Leipziger Strasse and Mauerstrasse; Retrieved December 28, 2013.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '35.9 " N , 13 ° 23' 17.4" E