German Embassy Tirana
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | ||
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 Tirana
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| ambassador | Peter Zingraf | ||
| Website | www.tirana.diplo.de | ||
The German Embassy Tirana (officially: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany ) is the highest diplomatic representation of the Federal Republic of Germany in Albania . Peter Zingraf has been an ambassador since August 2019 .
The embassy - office building and residence - is located at Rruga Skënderbej No. 8 in the center of Tirana. On the street named after the Albanian national hero Skanderbeg there are almost exclusively embassies, which is why it is closed to through traffic.
The embassy has a political department, an economic department, an economic cooperation unit, a consular department, a military attaché , a cultural department and a press department.
history
In 1914, after the Albanian declaration of independence, the German Reich sent a consul general who resided in Vlora . In 1914 a consul general was officiating in Durrës when the German Prince Wilhelm zu Wied ruled the country as prince . In 1923 Radolf von Kardorff was appointed chargé d'affaires for the diplomatic mission in Tirana, after Germany had recognized Albania the previous year. In the interwar period, the legation was downgraded to consulate for a few years for reasons of cost. During the Second World War , when Germany occupied Albania, in addition to the consul general there was a German plenipotentiary general (from September 1943 to May 1944: Theodor Geib ; from June 1944 to August 1944: Otto Gullmann ), a military administration, and a special representative of the Foreign Office as well as a representative for economics and finances, who all had a direct influence on the situation in Albania.
When the Federal Republic of Germany established diplomatic relations with Albania in 1987 as the last country in Europe, the embassy was first in a suite in the Dajti Hotel , and later in a building opposite the embassy under construction. The embassy building was opened in June 1990. The first ambassador was Friedrich Kroneck .
In 1990 the communist system in Albania also began to falter. After the first demonstrations and after some young people had fled to the Greek and Italian embassies in the spring, four young men jumped over the wall into the German embassy on July 1, one of them being injured by shots fired by the Sigurimi . More followed over the next few days, so that on July 5th there were already 800 and on July 6th 1500 refugees were on the embassy premises. The authorities turned off the water and forbade embassy staff to buy bread. The Foreign Office sent two officers and a doctor. On the night of July 7th, a girl was born in the embassy who was named Germana . On July 8th, 3,200 people watched the final of the soccer World Cup on the embassy site . On the night of July 12th to 13th, the 5,000 or so refugees who had sought refuge in the embassies of Germany, Italy, France and Greece were brought by bus to Durrës , where they could leave the country by ferry. The successful mediation of the exit of the refugees through the UN envoy Staffan de Mistura ushered in the end of the communist regime.
 
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Location of the German Embassy within Tirana |
In 2017, a memorial in the form of a LIAZ truck was installed on the wall of the embassy to commemorate the embassy refugees.
The GDR only had ambassadors in Tirana from 1955 to 1961 and from 1988 to 1989.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the German Embassy Tirana (Albanian / German)
- Picture gallery of the occupation of the embassy in July 1990
Individual evidence
- ^ Embassy: Chancellery and Residence. In: German Embassy Tirana. Retrieved on December 1, 2019 : “The German Embassy Tirana is located in Rruga Skënderbej 8. The street, which is closed to public traffic and on which there are numerous foreign representations, is named after Gjergj Kastriot Skënderbej, the great national hero of Albania and is popularly available also known as Rruga Ambasade (embassy street). "
- ↑ The Ambassador and the individual departments. In: German Embassy Tirana. Archived from the original on July 17, 2013 ; Retrieved May 4, 2013 .
- ^ Matthias Dornfeldt, Enrico Seewald: The German diplomatic missions in Albania from 1913 to 1944 . In: Journal of Balkanology . tape 45 , no. 1 . Harrasowitz Verlag, 2009, ISSN 0044-2356 ( online version of the article ).
- ↑ Werner Bartels: The beginnings of the German Embassy Tirana. (No longer available online.) Federal Foreign Office , archived from the original on March 22, 2011 ; accessed on May 3, 2013 (PDF file, 9.65 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Werner Daum : Introduction . In: Werner Daum (ed.): Albania between cross and half moon . State Museum for Ethnology (self-published) / Pinguin-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7016-2461-5 , p. 11-35 .
- ↑ Top Channel (July 3, 2017): Kamioni shemb Ambasadën e Gjermanisë on YouTube
Coordinates: 41 ° 19 ′ 45.8 ″ N , 19 ° 48 ′ 27 ″ E