German Embassy Washington, DC
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | ||
| Consist | since 1964 | ||
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 Washington, DC
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| Ambassador | Emily Haber | ||
| Website | www.washington.diplo.de | ||
The German Embassy in Washington is the highest diplomatic representation of Germany in the United States . The German Embassy building is located northwest of downtown Washington, DC on Reservoir Road NW 4645.
history
One of the first steps in official German-American relations is a 1785 trade agreement between Prussia and the United States. In 1817, Friedrich von Greuhm, the first Prussian ambassador, was sent. He is the only German ambassador to be buried in the United States. In 1848 the United States was the only foreign state to recognize the Frankfurt National Assembly . After the founding of the empire in 1871, the German Reich established diplomatic relations with the USA. The embassy building at the time was on Massachusetts Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets. In the following years, the embassy participated in what is now the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University . There was also an exchange in the scientific and military fields. American officers, for example, attended German military academies. With the beginning of the First World War , the relationship deteriorated. The unrestricted submarine warfare and an offer of alliance to Mexico ( Zimmermann Telegram ) eventually led to the declaration of war of the USA to the German Reich.
Carried out the re-establishment of diplomatic relations in 1921 with the deployment of Karl Lang as charge d'affaires . With the German-American agreement of August 10, 1922 , the Weimar Republic again sent a regular ambassador to Washington, namely Otto Wiedfeldt . After a period of normalization that led to power of the Nazis again to a deterioration of the relationship. In response to the events of the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938, the USA withdrew its ambassador from Berlin, whereupon the German ambassador was also called back. With the sinking of Allied merchant ships in the Atlantic by German submarines and their escort by the US Navy , there were military confrontations even before the declaration of war on the USA in 1941. The entry into the Second World War finally led to the breakdown of diplomatic relations.
In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded out of the three western occupation zones , which Heinz Krekeler sent to the USA as ambassador the following year . Military cooperation between the two states has existed since the German rearmament and accession to the North Atlantic Pact in 1955.
Between 1962 and 1964, the embassy building was built according to a design by Egon Eiermann . It is the only building by this architect outside of Germany. The building was renovated from 2010 to 2014; Among other things, energetic refurbishment measures were carried out, including the installation of a solar system, modernization of the house air conditioning and the installation of an LED lighting system. In July 2014 the German embassy returned.
With the reunification in 1990 Jürgen Ruhfus became the first all-German representative in Washington after the Second World War. In 1994 the ambassador 's residence designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers was completed in the direct vicinity of the embassy .
Emily Haber has been the German ambassador to the United States since 2018 .
tasks
The work of the German embassy is divided into the departments of Political Affairs, Economy, Science, Labor and Social Affairs, Finance and Taxes, and Agriculture and Transport. The embassy also houses a press and culture department, an administrative department and the staff of the military attaché . There is also a consulate on the premises .
Residency
The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) operates one of its 84 residences in the German Embassy in Washington, DC The FBI temporarily observed the employees of the BND in the embassy to determine whether the service was conducting agents on American soil without the knowledge of US authorities.
List of German ambassadors in the USA
Prussian envoys and envoys of the North German Confederation
- Friedrich von Greuhm (1817–1823)
- Ludwig Niederstetter (1825-1830)
- Friedrich Ludwig von Rönne (1834–1844)
- Friedrich von Gerolt (1844–1848)
- Friedrich Ludwig von Rönne (1848–1849) (as envoy of the provisional central power and the imperial administrator Johann von Österreich )
- Friedrich von Gerolt (1849–1868), from 1868 ambassador of the North German Confederation
Ambassador of the German Reich
Imperial ambassadors
- Kurd von Schlözer (1871–1882)
- Carl von Eisendecher (1882–1884)
- Friedrich Johann Graf von Alvensleben (1884–1888)
- Ludwig Aloys von Arco on Valley (1888-1891)
- Theodor von Holleben (1891-1893)
- Anton Freiherr Saurma von der Jeltsch (1893–1895)
- Max Franz Guido Freiherr von Thielmann (1895–1897)
- Theodor von Holleben (1897–1903)
- Hermann Freiherr Speck von Sternburg (1903–1908)
- Johann Heinrich Graf von Bernstorff (1908–1917)
- Ambassador of the German Empire in the USA
Kurd von Schlözer
Carl von Eisendecher
Friedrich Johann Count of Alvensleben
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff
Ambassador of the Weimar Republic
- Dr. Lang (1921–1922, executive)
- Otto Wiedfeldt (1922–1925)
- Adolf Georg von Maltzan (1925–1927)
- Friedrich von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1928–1933)
Ambassador at the time of National Socialism
- Hans Luther (1933–1937)
- Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (1937–1938)
- Hans Thomsen (1938–1941, executive)
Ambassador of the German Democratic Republic
- Rolf Sieber (1974–1978)
- Horst Grunert (1978-1983)
- Gerhard Herder (1983–1990)
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Heinz Krekeler (1950–1958)
- Wilhelm Grewe (1958–1962)
- Karl Heinrich Knappstein (1962–1969)
- Rolf Friedemann Pauls (1969–1973)
- Berndt von Staden (1973–1979)
- Peter Hermes (1979-1984)
- Günther van Well (1984–1987)
- Jürgen Ruhfus (1987–1992)
- Immo Stabreit (1992–1995)
- Jürgen Chrobog (1995-2001)
- Wolfgang Ischinger (2001-2006)
- Klaus Scharioth (2006-2011)
- Peter Ammon (2011-2014)
- Peter Wittig (2014-2018)
- Emily Haber (2018-)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History of German American Relations: The first two centuries ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Website of the German embassy.
- ↑ First German Diplomatic Representative Left Impression on Washington ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Website of the German embassy.
- ^ Description of the Embassy Building , New York Times, June 25, 1899, accessed February 7, 2009.
- ↑ History of German American Relations: The Deepest Crisis ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Website of the German embassy.
- ↑ [1] , website of the BBR.
- ↑ Information on the website of the German embassy in Washington ( memento of the original from January 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 20, 2015.
- ^ Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning , website of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning on the renovation of the German Embassy.
- ↑ Emily Haber Becomes Ambassador to Washington , faz.net, April 19, 2018, accessed December 4, 2018.
- ↑ Foreign Office: USA - German representations ( memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ Hans Leyendecker, Tanjev Schultz: CIA, NSA, DIA: US spies in Germany. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Appointment of federal envoys to foreign powers. February 21, 1868 at Wikisource
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Coordinates: 38 ° 54 ′ 51.8 " N , 77 ° 5 ′ 19.3" W.