German-Palauan relations
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The relations between Germany and Palau made since 1997 and have historical roots in the German colonial period .
Diplomatic relations
The first bilateral contact point between the two countries is the rule of the German Empire over Palau within the colony of German New Guinea between 1899 and 1914, which left only a few traces on the island nation. These include the remains of a phosphate - mining on Koror and today so called German Channel . Diplomatic relations have existed since November 11, 1997.
Germany has no embassy in Palau; this task is taken over by the German embassy in Manila in the Philippines with ambassador Joachim Heidorn . There is also no Palau embassy in Germany; the embassy in Washington, DC is responsible for this. However, the German honorary consul Thomas Schubert is in Koror .
Economy and development
The biggest factor within the German-Palau economic relations is the tourism of German citizens to Palau, especially in the diving area . Otherwise the share of mutual imports and exports in Germany's foreign trade relations remains limited. The development policy efforts on the part of the Federal Republic of Germany, which essentially relate to mine clearance from explosive devices from the Second World War or to micro-projects, are also manageable . Furthermore, Germany supports the development of Palau indirectly through its contributions in the course of the Cotonou Agreement .
Culture
The so-called "Krämer" volumes, which were created during the German expedition to the South Seas of the marine doctor and ethnologist Augustin Krämer in the years 1907 to 1910, are regarded as an identity-creating, codified memory of the Palauian culture, which is threatened by decay today. As part of the Federal Foreign Office's cultural preservation program, the German embassy also financially supports the translation of the written works into English. In Palau courts, the five volumes of the grocer's records are still the only authoritative source for land issues and tribal disputes.
The zoologist Karl Semper was in Palau as early as 1862 , whose ethnographic considerations, which were only published in 1900, had been characterized by contemporaries as novel-like and unscientific compared to the more serious research of Johann Stanislaus Kubary . Semper's fascination with the foreign in the South Seas can still be found in a poem by Gottfried Benn with the title Palau in the 1920s . Palau became the destination of a very important German South Sea romanticism. After the exhibition of Paul Gauguin's paintings in Dresden in 1906, Palau became important for the German artist group Brücke . Gauguin's travels to Tahiti later prompted Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein to stay in the South Seas and on Palau . Pechstein had to leave the island in 1914 due to the war. From 1909 to 1911 pieces from Semper's collections, including richly decorated and magnificently painted ornamental beams from men's houses, were exhibited together with paintings of the bridge in Moritzburg Castle near Dresden. One can speak of a veritable Palau style of the bridge.
See also
Web links
- The Foreign Office on relations with Palau
- Germany and Palau. Old connections. New contacts, exhibition opening, University of Bayreuth Hermann Hiery
- Palau and Germany exhibition in the Belau National Museum in the Republic of Palau
Individual evidence
- ↑ Travel and safety information from the Federal Foreign Office
- ↑ DNB 560643128
- ↑ a b Stereotypical paradises: Oceanism in German South Seas literature 1815–1914, by Gabriele Dürbeck, Walter de Gruyter, January 1, 2007 - u. a. P. 137
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