German Embassy Tel Aviv
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | ||
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 Tel Aviv
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| ambassador | Susanne Wasum-Rainer | ||
| Website | tel-aviv.diplo.de | ||
The German Embassy Tel Aviv is the diplomatic mission of Germany in Israel . It is located on the 19th floor of the Daniel Frisch Tower in Daniel Frisch Strasse 3 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa .
history
prehistory
The relationship between the states of Israel and Germany, founded in 1948 and 1949, was initially deeply shaped by the history of the Third Reich and the Holocaust , in which around six million Jews were killed. But even though it took 20 years after the end of the Second World War before diplomatic relations were established between the two states, the respective heads of government David Ben Gurion and Konrad Adenauer tried to establish connections beforehand. In 1952 they signed the Luxembourg Agreement on the agreement of financial support to Israel by Germany and met in 1960 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York , about which Ben Gurion said: “I belong to a people who cannot forget their past. But we don't think of the past to brood over it, but to make sure it doesn't repeat itself. Last summer I said in front of the Knesset , the Parliament of Israel, that today's Germany is not yesterday's Germany. After my meeting with the Federal Chancellor today, I am convinced that my assessment at the time was correct. ”But a closer relationship was still countered by the fear on the German side that if diplomatic relations were to be established with Israel, the Arab states would officially recognize the GDR what Egypt's President Nasser had already announced and what, according to the Hallstein Doctrine , should urgently be prevented. However, in February 1965 Egypt received Walter Ulbricht , Chairman of the GDR State Council, anyway, which removed this obstacle.
founding
In response to Walter Ulbricht's reception in Egypt, the German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard offered Israel diplomatic relations on March 7, 1965. The Knesset agreed and on May 12th the decision was made official through an exchange of notes between Erhard and Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eschkol . But there was also considerable headwind on the German and Israeli sides. While in Germany Ludwig Erhard's arbitrary decision of March 7 was criticized on a political level, in Israel the establishment of diplomatic relations was generally rejected by parts of the public.
On August 19, 1965, the first ambassador, Rolf Friedemann Pauls , was installed in his office with the ceremonial handing over of his credentials. The celebrations were accompanied by large demonstrations that had to be kept in check by the police. As a result, nine other Arab states in addition to Egypt temporarily broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, and three more called their ambassadors back from Germany. It took many years to restore these relationships.
Further development
The GDR never established relations with Israel. Nor did it take any responsibility for the Holocaust, and from the 1950s onwards it even ran state agitation against Israel. In contrast, a 1989 Jerusalem Post article noted, "West Germany has become our closest friend after the US."
To date there have been 15 German ambassadors in Israel.
literature
- Asher Ben Natan , Niels Hansen : Introduction. In: Asher Ben Natan, Niels Hansen (eds.): Israel and Germany. Thorny way to partnership. The ambassadors report on four decades of diplomatic relations (1965–2005). Böhlau, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-13105-9 , pp. 1–3.
- Gerhard Gronauer: The State of Israel in West German Protestantism. Perceptions in church and journalism from 1948 to 1972 (= work on contemporary church history. Vol. 57). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-55772-3 .
- Todd H. Hall: Emotional Diplomacy. Official Emotion on the International Stage. Cornell University Press, Ithaca / London 2015, ISBN 978-0-8014-5301-4 .
- Niels Hansen : From the shadow of the catastrophe. German-Israeli relations in the era of Konrad Adenauer and David Ben Gurion. A documented report (= research and sources on contemporary history. Vol. 38). Droste, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-7700-1886-9 .
- Rolf Friedemann Pauls : A difficult start ahead. In: Asher Ben Natan, Niels Hansen (eds.): Israel and Germany. Thorny way to partnership. The ambassadors report on four decades of diplomatic relations (1965–2005). Böhlau, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-13105-9 , pp. 5-23.
- Hermann Schäfer : Introduction. In: House of the history of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany. Thirty years of diplomatic relations. Argon, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87024-794-0 , pp. 7-9.
- Rolf Vogel (ed.): The German-Israeli dialogue. Documentation of an exciting chapter of German foreign policy. Vol. 1, KG Saur, Munich / New York / London / Paris 1987, ISBN 3-598-21941-5 .
- Moshe Zimmermann : German-Israeli relations between reality and public opinion. In: House of the history of the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany. Thirty years of diplomatic relations. Argon, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87024-794-0 , pp. 37-51.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hansen: From the shadow of the catastrophe. 2002, p. 15.
- ↑ Quotation from Vogel: Der German-Israeli Dialog 1. 1987, p. 150.
- ↑ a b c Gronauer: The State of Israel in West German Protestantism. 2013, p. 179.
- ↑ Pauls: Laborious start ahead. 2005, p. 22.
- ↑ Ben Natan, Hansen: Introduction. 2005, p. 1.
- ^ Zimmermann: German-Israeli relations between reality and public opinion. 1996, p. 37.
- ↑ Pauls: Laborious start ahead. 2005, p. 6 f.
- ^ Hall: Emotional Diplomacy. 2015, p. 115.
- ↑ Schäfer: Introduction. 1996, p. 8 f.
- ↑ Quotation from Ben Natan, Niels: Introduction. 2005, p. 1.
Coordinates: 32 ° 4 ′ 28.6 ″ N , 34 ° 46 ′ 59.7 ″ E