German Embassy Moscow
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | ||
| Consist | since September 1955 | ||
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 Moscow
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| ambassador | Géza Andreas von Geyr | ||
| Website | www.germania.diplo.de | ||
The German Embassy Moscow is the diplomatic representation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Russian Federation . It is located in the western administrative district of the Russian capital Moscow at uliza Mosfilmowskaja 56.Géza Andreas von Geyr has been the ambassador since 2019 .
history
The embassy until 1941
The German ambassador to the Russian Empire resided in Saint Petersburg (Petrograd) until 1914 . It was only under Ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach-Harff that he moved to the Villa Berg in Moscow ( Deneschni Pereulok 5 , now the seat of the Italian embassy ). On July 6, 1918, von Mirbach-Harff was shot dead by Jakow Blumkin and Nikolai Andrejew in the building of the German embassy in Moscow . The provisional successor of Mirbach-Harffs as German ambassador was Karl Helfferich for a short time . Kurt Wiedenfeld then acted as ambassador from 1921 . From 1922 onwards it was Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau who tried to build a good relationship with the Soviet Union , but at the same time to avoid too close a relationship between Germany and it. He vigorously opposed military cooperation between the two states, which brought him into conflict with the German army command. Brockdorff-Rantzau contributed significantly to the conclusion of the Berlin Treaty (1926) between the German Reich and the Soviet Union. After Brockdorff-Rantzau's death in 1928, Herbert von Dirksen followed . He did not succeed in sustainably improving German-Soviet relations. Rudolf Nadolny followed Dirksen to the post of ambassador in Moscow in August 1933, but resigned in 1934 because of the foreign policy of his government that was too hostile to the Soviets. His successor, Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg , advocated an understanding between Germany and the USSR and was instrumental in bringing about the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of August 1939. He tried to prevent the German attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. He warned that the USSR was militarily strong and that its industrial reserves were virtually invulnerable. After the start of the war against the Soviet Union in 1941, the embassy was closed, Schulenburg in Moscow was interned for a few weeks and then deported at the Turkish border.
After the Second World War
Diplomatic relations between the GDR and the Soviet Union existed from October 15, 1949 until the end of the GDR in 1990 (see list of GDR ambassadors ). The GDR embassy and chancellery were located on Lenin Prospect . After the Soviet Union had declared the state of war with Germany to be over on January 25, 1955, the last German soldiers returned from Soviet captivity . As a result, from September 1955, the Soviet Union maintained diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany , as the Federal Republic of Germany saw this as a possible means of overcoming the division of Germany and restoring German unity. The first ambassador was Wilhelm Haas . The West German embassy resided from 1956 in a small century villa (built by Ivan Abramovich Morozov ) at the Ulitsa Bolshaya Gruzinskaya 17. In the German engineer Horst Schwirkmann that in the German Embassy in Moscow bugged had discovered in the telephone systems in mid 1950, was 1964 Assassination committed.
New building from 1984
The building of the embassy complex and the outdoor facilities at uliza Mosfilmowskaja 56 were built from 1984 to 1992 according to plans by the architects Hans Mensinga and Dieter Rogalla & Partner (both former employees of the renowned Hamburg architects Spengelin ). The construction management was the responsibility of the Federal Building Department , the executing company was Hochtief . In the course of the construction work, more and more craftsmen from Germany had to be commissioned because the required skills were not available on site. Likewise, all materials for the interior fittings had to be delivered from Germany due to poor availability on site and for quality reasons. The art in architecture comes from Franz Bernhard , Barbara Haim and Robert Schad . The total cost was around 186 million German marks.
The newly built embassy remained the seat of the diplomatic mission of the Federal Republic of Germany even after reunification.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Gebauer: Diplomacy: Von der Leyens political boss becomes ambassador in Moscow . In: Spiegel Online . May 23, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 23, 2019]).
- ^ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 127-128, 150 .
- ↑ Ready to jump at the German border . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1965 ( online ).
- ↑ Interview of the ministerial director in the Foreign Office, Wilhelm G. Grewe, with the editor-in-chief of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Hans Wendt, December 11, 1955 ( PDF , 154 kB) in the Bulletin of the Federal Government's Press and Information Office, No. 233, December 13 1955, p. 1993 f.
- ↑ Russia: Fumigating the Fumigator Time.com, September 26, 1964
- ^ German Embassy Moscow . Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning
Coordinates: 55 ° 43 ′ 2.5 ″ N , 37 ° 31 ′ 1.2 ″ E