German Embassy Rome

German Embassy Rome
State level	bilateral
Position of the authority	Embassy
Supervisory authority (s)	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Consist	since June 1, 1951
Headquarters	Rome
ambassador	Viktor Elbling
Website	www.italien.diplo.de

The German Embassy in Rome is the diplomatic representation of the Federal Republic of Germany towards the Italian Republic and the Republic of San Marino . The Permanent Representation of Germany to the Rome- based United Nations organizations ( FAO , WFP , IFAD ) is also located at the embassy . The German embassy at the Holy See , which is also located in Rome, is to be distinguished from the embassy and the permanent representation .

location

German Embassy Rome (Chancellery)

The Palazzo Caffarelli on the Capitol (1880), formerly the seat of the German Embassy. On the southwest side of the hill there was also the German Archaeological Institute, a German hospital, and a Protestant chapel.

Villa Almone, residence of the ambassador

The Embassy Office and the Permanent Mission are located in the Castro Pretorio district , a few hundred meters north of the Rome-Termini train station , in Via San Martino della Battaglia 4 . The Villa Almone is the residence of the German ambassador to Italy. It is located south of the city center, a few hundred meters east of the Rom-Ostiense train station on the Via Cristoforo Colombo ( ⊙ ) entry and exit road .

The separate German embassy at the Holy See is located in the Roman district of Parioli .

history

See also : List of German ambassadors in Italy  and San Marino

After the Kingdom of Italy had emerged from the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont in 1861 , the legation of Prussia and the North German Confederation moved from Turin to Florence in 1865 and finally to Rome in 1871. The new Italian nation-state had incorporated the papal state in 1870 , which is why the embassy of the newly founded German Empire took over the Palazzo Caffarelli on the Roman Capitol , in which the Prussian embassy to the Pope was located until 1871 . The embassy to the King of Italy was upgraded to an embassy in 1876.

At the end of the First World War , the Palazzo Caffarelli and neighboring buildings were confiscated by the Italian state, mainly because the presence of German institutions on the Capitol had been considered inappropriate for a long time. After the resumption of diplomatic relations, the Italian government offered the Palazzo Vidoni Caffarelli as compensation in 1924 . However, the Wolkonsky villa was acquired for the German embassy in 1922 . The embassy stayed there until 1943. Since the Villa Wolkonsky had been used as a prison, among other things, until the liberation of Rome in early June 1944, it was also confiscated and made available to the United Kingdom after the Second World War , which it later acquired in full.

After the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Italian Republic, the Federal German Embassy was housed in a building in Via Don Giovanni Verità in the Prati district from 1951 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1998 she used a building in Via Po 25 , near Villa Borghese . Since then, the German Embassy has been located in an Umbertine city ​​palace not far from the Termini and Castro Pretorio metro stations .

The embassy of the German Democratic Republic was in Via di Trasone , not far from the Villa Ada and the Priscilla catacombs .

Consular missions

The consular department of the embassy is responsible for central and southern Italy, the German consulate general in Milan for northern Italy. There are also nine honorary consulates in Bari , Bolzano , Cagliari , Florence , Genoa , Messina , Naples , Palermo and Venice .

Culture

The embassy looks after cultural institutions, especially in Rome, that either belong to the Foreign Office's portfolio or are of particular importance for German-Italian relations :

• German Archaeological Institute Rome
• German Historical Institute Rome
• German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
• Bibliotheca Hertziana
• German School Rome
• Casa di Goethe

Others

In contrast to Austria and over 100 other countries, Germany did not have full diplomatic, but “official” relations with the Sovereign Order of Malta for a long time . The diplomatic relations established in November 2017 are maintained by the German Embassy at the Holy See.

The Permanent Representation maintains connections to the international organizations UNIDROIT , ICCROM and IDLO based in Rome .

See also

• Italian embassy in Berlin
• List of German ambassadors to the FAO, the WFP and the IFAD

Web links

• Internet presence of the embassy
• Details on the website of the Federal Foreign Office
• Website of the permanent representation at FAO, WFP and IFAD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Golo Maurer: Prussia on the Tarpeian Rock: Chronicle of a foreseeable fall. The history of the German Capitol 1817–1918 . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1728-7 .
2. ↑ Hartwig Fischer : A Wilhelminian total work of art on the Capitol. Hermann Prell and the establishment of the throne room in the German Embassy in Rome 1894–1899. Mewe, Lörrach 1998, ISBN 3-9806066-1-9 (Diss., Bonn 1993).
3. ↑ Mischa Steidl: Das “Third Rome”: Destruction and construction of history in the service of national memory, 1870–1950. Diss., Justus Liebig University Gießen 2009. (p. 131)

Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 18.4 "  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 11.8"  E