German-Colombian relations

German-Colombian relations

Germany	Colombia

At the diplomatic level, German-Colombian relations have existed since 1872 and thus for more than 140 years. There is a German embassy in Bogotá .

Colombia operates an embassy in Berlin and a consulate general in Frankfurt am Main . There are honorary consuls in Bremen , Hamburg and Stuttgart .

history

The then Federal Minister for Special Tasks Heinrich Krone received the chairman of the Liberal Party of Colombia Carlos Lleras Restrepo in 1964 .

The German conquistador Ambrosius Ehinger died in 1533 near Chinácota in Colombia. In 1889 , Leo S. Kopp from Offenbach founded Sociedad Kopp's Deutsche Brauerei , which is now the largest brewery in Colombia as Bavaria SA .

In 1919 the German-Colombian Air Transport Company (Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transportes / SCADTA) was founded as the second oldest airline in the world. Her successor Avianca is now the largest Colombian airline .

People born in Colombia with German ancestors include the poet León de Greiff (1895–1976), the sports shooter Helmut Bellingrodt (* 1949) and the drug dealer Carlos Lehder Rivas (* 1949).

According to the German Foreign Office, there have been "long, friendly and increasingly close relationships" between the two countries. Germany would like to continue to support Colombia in dealing with and coming to terms with the Colombian civil war .

See also

• Foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Commons : German-Colombian Relations  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information from the German Foreign Office on relations with Colombia
• Weiler, Vera: Stayed. About Germans in Colombia in: Quetzal online magazine
• German-Colombian Circle of Friends
• El cementerio alemán es poco conocido por los bogotanos (spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 140 years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Colombia ( memento of the original from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Welcome to the German Embassy in Bogotá (German and Spanish) . Retrieved October 8, 2016.
3. ↑ Embajada de Colombia en Alemania (German and Spanish) . Retrieved October 8, 2016.
4. ^ Relations between Colombia and Germany
5. ↑ Foreign Minister Steinmeier: Wishes Colombia that 2015 brings peace ( memento of the original from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.