German Embassy Ankara
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | ||
| Consist | since 1925 | ||
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 Ankara
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| ambassador | Martin Erdmann | ||
| Website | www.ankara.diplo.de | ||
The German Embassy Ankara is the official and highest diplomatic representation of Germany in the Republic of Turkey .
history
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the victorious war of liberation led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the Turkish Republic was proclaimed in Ankara on October 29, 1923 and Ankara was declared its capital . The diplomatic missions that had previously been based in Istanbul initially showed little inclination to move to the new capital; after the representation of the young USSR , that of the German Reich was the second, which followed the call in 1925.
As early as September 26, 1924, a 28,000 m² area was acquired as an embassy site. Thanks to donations from the Turkish government and the purchase of surrounding properties, the area of the German Embassy in Ankara now covers around 60,000 m².
The first embassy building was a prefabricated wooden house from Niesky ( Upper Lusatia ), which had been ordered from Christoph & Unmack AG by the Foreign Office in 1924 . The necessary measures for the construction and expansion of the prefabricated house in Ankara were carried out by the company Philipp Holzmann .
Ataturk visited the building on February 9, 1925 and was impressed by the modernity of the embassy.
In 1928 the office and residential buildings commissioned by the Reichsbauverwaltung were erected (also by Philipp Holzmann). The historic prefabricated wooden house has been preserved to this day and is located on the site of Ataturk Orman Çiftliği .
Ambassador Rudolf Nadolny had a major influence on the planning of the new embassy building . He had the building designed and built in the style of a Prussian country house, that is, reserved, clearly structured, but by no means unrepresentative. A model was Gut Neudeck , the country seat of the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg .
The contacts to whom the spy Cicero, alias Elyesa Bazna, sold British secret documents in 1943 and 1944 - and received forged British pounds that had been produced by Jewish prisoners in Sachsenhausen concentration camp as part of Operation Bernhard - also resided in this facility .
Message today
The embassy is still in this building to this day, and various embassy offices are also housed in the park-like area. On the opposite side of Ataturk Bulvarı is the private school of the German Embassy in Ankara , which was housed in one of the buildings on the embassy premises until the end of the 1960s.
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Coordinates: 39 ° 54 ′ 16.6 ″ N , 32 ° 51 ′ 21.5 ″ E