Chinese embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
| Consist | since 1877 | ||
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 Berlin
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| ambassador | Wu Ken (since 2019) | ||
| Website | www.china-botschaft.de | ||
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The Chinese Embassy in Berlin ( Chinese 中华人民共和国 驻 德意志 联邦 共和国 大使馆 ) is the headquarters of the diplomatic mission of the People's Republic of China in Germany. There has been a diplomatic representation of China in Berlin since 1877. Today's embassy is located on Märkischer Ufer 54 near the Jannowitzbrücke in Luisenstadt in the Berlin district of Mitte in the district of the same name . The seven-storey building, erected in 1988 as the FDGB headquarters, was converted into an embassy in 1999–2001.
history
Imperial embassy in Berlin (1877–1911)
The Imperial Embassy in Berlin was established in 1877 by the Qing Dynasty . The first envoy was Liu Xihong . From 1878 to 1890, the Embassy rented by Baron August von der Heydt whose Villa for annual rent of 15,000 marks . Theodor Fontane wrote the essay In Search of 1889 . Walk on the Berlin Canal over a Chinese man in the embassy garden who is giving a girl an apple.
After the banker Karl von der Heydt bought the villa and claimed it as a residential building, the Chinese embassy moved in 1890 to In den Zelten No. 14, a street that was drawn in after 1945 in the area of the later congress hall .
In 1910, China acquired a house at Kurfürstendamm 218 and set up its embassy there. The building at Kurfürstendamm 218 was pledged by the Chinese envoy in 1913 after the end of the Qing dynasty in order to be able to service payments for Chinese stranded in Germany.
Diplomatic Mission of the Republic of China (1919–1949)
During the Weimar Republic, the embassy of the Republic of China was still at Kurfürstendamm 218. On May 18, 1935, China converted the embassy in Berlin into an embassy.
From autumn 1940, Lieutenant General Yung-chin Kwei (1900–1954) was a military attaché in Berlin.
Legation from Manchuko (1938–1945)
Since June 1936 a trade commissioner for Manchuko , a puppet state founded by the colonial power Japan in 1932 on the territory of China, resided in Berlin . On February 20, 1938, in a speech to the Reichstag , Hitler announced the recognition of Manchuko and placed this in connection with Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933 . Manchuko was only recognized internationally by a few states - mainly by the Axis powers and their environment. On May 12, 1938, Germany and Manchuko signed a friendship treaty, and on August 16, Lue I-Wen was appointed the first chargé d'affaires of the Manchuk embassy. Lue I-Wen was a former governor of Tonghua District and, prior to his appointment, served in the Manchuk Foreign Ministry in Changchun and served as Secretary to Premier Zhang Jinghui . On November 21, 1938, he and four envoys from other countries presented Hitler with his credentials at the Berghof . The Manchurian legation resided at Lessingstrasse 1 (NW 87) in the Hansaviertel (so called since 1953). While the envoy in Berlin Lue I-Wen and the consul in Hamburg An Chi-Yun were Chinese, the rest of the representation's staff came mainly from Japan, for example the trade attaché in Berlin, Kiyoshi Kato and the vice-consul in Hamburg, Seiroku Sawaguchi.
Embassy of the PR China in the GDR (1950–1990)
The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations in October 1949 - shortly after the GDR was founded. In 1950, the first Chinese ambassador, Ji Pengfei, began his service in East Berlin . After his diplomatic career, Ji Pengfei became the People's Republic's Foreign Minister. The Chinese mission arrived at the Silesian Railway Station on October 11, 1950 . Their journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway had passed through Moscow. The following day Ji Pengfei handed over his credentials to GDR President Wilhelm Pieck .
In 1951 the embassy was based in Berlin-Karlshorst at Treskowallee 77 (renamed Hermann-Duncker-Straße in 1961 and renumbered no. 92), 1952–1973 at Treskowallee 50 (renumbered 1961 no. 26). The representative building was 1983-1989 to represent the Jamahirija Libya . In 1973, China received a villa at Heinrich-Mann-Strasse 9 in Berlin-Niederschönhausen , Pankow district , as a new domicile.
In the wake of the bloody suppression of the protests on Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, the confrontation between opposition groups and the GDR government came to a head. The SED leaders' approval of the Chinese leadership's actions, signaled in official GDR media, was understood as an attempt to intimidate the GDR opposition . Several unauthorized protest demonstrations took place in front of the Chinese embassy in Niederschönhausen in June 1989, an extremely rare event in the history of the GDR. The demonstration on June 21, 1989, during which around fifty participants were arrested, attracted particular attention. On the same day, 25 opposition groups made a joint statement of protest, which was sent to the Chinese ambassador.
Embassy of the PR China in the Federal Republic of Germany (1973–1990)
In October 1972, the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by Foreign Minister Walter Scheel , and the People's Republic of China, represented by Foreign Minister Ji Pengfei , agreed to establish full diplomatic relations. Ji Pengfei was the first ambassador to the GDR more than twenty years earlier and was himself the first ambassador of the PR China to Germany. In 1973 the embassy of the PR China opened in Niederbachem near Bonn .
From 1984 the embassy resided at Kurfürstenallee 12 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg (→ entry in embassy list ). After the capital city decision , the Chinese embassy moved to Berlin and the building in Bonn became a consulate. In 2004 the Chinese government gave up the embassy building on Kurfürstenallee, but it remained in the possession of the People's Republic of China. After a renovation, it serves as a guest house for Chinese diplomats.
Embassy of the PR China in the united Germany
The building complex near the Jannowitzbrücke , which has been in use since 1999, was built in 1988 according to plans by Jens Ebert for 182 million marks and was the new seat of the federal board of the FDGB (House of Trade Unions). After the political change , it was converted into a congress center (Berliner Congress Center - BCC), but it soon went out of service. As a result of the capital city resolution of 1991, the Chinese embassy (in the old Federal Republic) moved from Bonn to Berlin in 1999. Both Chinese embassies merged and acquired the convention center. The renovation was carried out according to plans by Novotny Mähner Associate . The building has a silver facade with mirrored windows. There is a sculpture of a Chinese guardian lion on the portal . A high security fence surrounds the forecourt.
The Chinese embassy consists of the following areas:
- Consular Section
- Political Department
- Press and Public Relations Department
- Military department
- Culture department
- Science and Technology Department
- Economic and Commercial Department
- Education department.
Wu Ken has been the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Federal Republic of Germany since March 2019 . His direct predecessors were Shi Mingde and Wu Hongbo . In addition to the embassy, there are also consulates general in Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg and Munich .
See also
literature
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- Hans Werner Klüner: The former Von-der-Heydt-Villa and its surroundings (PDF; 17.5 MB) . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , Vol. 75 (1980), Issue 1, pp. 121–130.
- Werner Meissner, Anja Feege: The GDR and China 1949 to 1990. Politics, economy, culture . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-05-002806-8 .
- Nils Ballhausen: The empire in the middle. Reconstruction and repair of a former FDGB house for the Chinese embassy . In: Bauwelt, Vol. 92, No. 14 (April 12, 2001), ISSN 0005-6855 , pp. 30f.
- Bernd Martin (Ed.): German-Chinese relations 1928–1937: “equal” partners under “unequal” conditions . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-002985-4 .
- Erich Gütinger: The history of the Chinese in Germany: an overview of the first 100 years from 1822 . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1457-1 .
- Andreas Steen: German-Chinese Relations 1911–1927: From Colonialism to “Equal Rights” . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-05-004243-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Gütinger: The history of the Chinese in Germany . Waxmann, Münster 2004, p. 140.
- ^ Theodor Fontane: In search. Walk on the Berlin Canal . ( DjVu ) In: Before and after the trip: chats and little stories . Fontane, Berlin 1894.
- ↑ Erich Gütinger: The history of the Chinese in Germany . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2004, p. 140.
- ↑ Hans Werner Klüner: The former Von-der-Heydt-Villa and its surroundings . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , Vol. 75, 1980, Issue 1, p. 128.
- ↑ a b Bernd Martin (ed.): German-Chinese relations 1928–1937 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, p. 191, footnote 8.
- ↑ Erich Gütinger: The history of the Chinese in Germany . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2004.
- ^ Hsi-Huey Liang: China, the Sino-Japanese Conflict and the Munich Crisis . In: Igor Lukes, Erik Goldstein (eds.): The Munich crisis, 1938 . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-7146-4995-3 , pp. 342-369.
- ↑ In the literature also in the spelling Lue-I-Wen, Lu-I-Wen, Lu I-Wen, Lü-I-Wen and Lü I-Wen.
- ^ Stefan Talmon: Collective non-recognition of illegal states . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-16-147981-6 , pp. 114-118.
- ↑ China Weekly Review , Millard, Shanghai, Vol. 85 (1938), ZDB -ID 433449-8 , p. 266.
- ↑ 5 Envoys Present Papers to Hitler . In: The New York Times , November 22, 1938.
- ↑ Directory of authorities . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, part 3, p. 12.
- ↑ China Weekly Review . Millard, Shanghai, Vol. 85, 1938, ZDB -ID 433449-8 , p. 437.
- ↑ Meissner, Feege: The GDR and China 1949 to 1990 ... , p. 63.
- ↑ Meissner, Feege: The GDR and China 1949 to 1990 ... , p. 459.
- ^ Diplomats in Karlshorst (II). In: Karlshorster , Heft 23, June 2009, p. 5. , re-accessed on December 8, 2019.
- ^ Telephone book for the capital of the German Democratic Republic Berlin. 1989 edition, p. 100.
- ↑ a b Ehrhart Neubert : History of the Opposition in the GDR 1949–1989 . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86153-163-1 , pp. 815-816.
- ↑ The Chinese solution . In: jugendopposition.de, a project of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Robert Havemann Society e. V .; Retrieved April 8, 2010.
- ↑ Johnny Erling: China's new ambassador Ma Canrong swears by Moselle wine . In: Die Welt , January 7, 2002.
- ↑ Ebba Hagenberg-Miliu: The Chinese Embassy is to become a preparatory college . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , January 15, 2009.
- ↑ Chinese Embassy on BauNetz
- ↑ china-botschaft.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '48.5 " N , 13 ° 25' 2.1" E