German Consulate General in Shanghai
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| Position of the authority | consular mission abroad | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | German Embassy Beijing | ||
| Consist | since October 15, 1982 | ||
| Headquarters |
 Shanghai
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| Consul General | Christine Althauser | ||
| Website | www.shanghai.diplo.de | ||
The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai has existed since 1982 and is based in the New Chancellery at Yongfu lu 181 in Shanghai . The residence of the Consulate General is also on the same street, number 151 . Christine Althauser has headed the Consulate General since August 2017 .
history
Friedrich Albert Graf zu Eulenburg led the Prussian East Asia Expedition to China , Japan and Siam from 1859 to 1862 , through which diplomatic relations between China and Germany were initiated. As early as September 2, 1861, Prussia and the states of the German Customs Union concluded a friendship, trade and shipping treaty with China, which was ratified in 1863 and granted the German states the right to set up consulates in China. There was one in Shanghai as early as 1862.
The first Prussian consul in Shanghai was CW Overweg, the first consul of the North German Confederation and later of the German Empire was Walter Georg Alfred Annecke. From October 21, 1875, Carl Conrad Friedrich Lueder was consul in Shanghai. On November 12, 1877 he became the first consul general.
In his letters from East Asia, Joseph Maria von Radowitz described the conditions in the early days of the consulate in Shanghai:
“No one who would have asked about the new representative of the King of Prussia in China. For hours we wandered around (in the oppressive heat) between roaring, dragging, poking, stinking Chinese and the worst kind of Europeans. [...] Brandt (who later became the German ambassador in Beijing ) goes in search of the "Royal Prussian Authority" while we guard our luggage on the street. After two hours he appears again with Mr. Overweg junior, a charming young man, less pleased than surprised to find us [...] Junior [...] indicated that it would be for the best of all times if we went back home immediately wanted to drive. After we had refused to do so, he takes kindly Mr. v. Rehfues (Consul General) in his penates , but leaves the rest of us to stay somewhere else. [...] Overwhelmed by the heat and the complaints of the day, I move to Mr. Overweg junior. and let him know that I might also be in his own bed, but at least with him the next night. "
In 1917 diplomatic relations between the German Reich and China broke off. Only after the agreement to restore the state of peace in 1921 was a German consulate general set up again in Shanghai, which existed under this name until the end of the Second World War and then continued to work for some time as a non-official aid agency for members of the German colony.
In 1937 the Consulate General moved to the Glen Line Building on the Bund, where it remained until the end of World War II.
Since October 15, 1982 there has been a Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai , which has also been responsible for the federal states that once belonged to the GDR since reunification .
According to the homepage of the representations of the Federal Republic of Germany in China, “40 years of German-Chinese relations” will be celebrated in 2012 and on October 15, 2012, “30 years of Consulate General Shanghai” will be celebrated.
German consuls general since 1877
- 1869–1875: Walter Georg Alfred Annecke (1835–1896)
- 1875–1879: Carl Conrad Friedrich Lueder (from 1877 Consul General)
- 1879–1884: Johann Heinrich Focke (1843–1916)
- 1884–1888: Johannes Lührsen (1838–1903)
- 1888–1899: Otto von Struebel (1846–1921)
- 1899–1906: Wilhelm Knappe (1855–1910)
- 1907–1912: Paul von Buri (1860–1922)
- 1913–1917: Hubert Knipping (1868–1955)
1917–1921: Break in relations
- 1921–1929:
- 1929–1933: Heinrich Rüdt von Collenberg (1875–1954)
- 1934–1937: Hermann Kriebel (1876–1941)
- 1941–1945: Martin Fischer
1945–1982: break in relations
- 1983–1985: Werner Handke
- 1985–1991: Hannelore Theodor
- 1991–1994: Helmut Arndt
- 1995–1998: Rolf-Rüdiger Zirpel
- 1998-2002: Kurt Leonberger
- 2002–2007: Wolfgang Röhr
- 2007–2010: Albrecht von der Heyden
- 2010–2014: Wolfgang Röhr
- 2014–2017: Peter Rothen
- since 2017: Christine Althauser
building
The General Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai uses the New Chancellery at Yongfu lu 181 and the residence at Yongfu lu 151. Yongfu lu is a road laid out in the French concession in 1930 , which ran until 1943 to Route Père Huc or Route du Père Huc or was called Gu shenfu lu in Chinese. The new office was built in 1935 in the Spanish style for a Shen family. From 1953 it was used as a sanatorium for the employees of the Shanghai Textile Office; this use only ended when it was taken over by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Behind the Neue Kanzlei there is a park lot on a hill. There is the house, which is now called the residence and is also used by the Consulate General. The residence is a villa decorated in an oriental style with stained glass windows. The building, which was built in 1941/42 according to designs by the architects C. Kofar and TH Yang, is also a listed building and was included in the list of Heritage Architecture in 1994 as an outstanding modern building. It initially belonged to an entrepreneur named Luo Digong and from 1958 was mostly used as a crèche or kindergarten, and for a short time also as a guest house for the Shanghai City Party Committee.
Web links
- Map and picture (PDF; 1.2 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directory of the representations of the Federal Republic of Germany abroad (PDF; 542 kB)
- ↑ Foreign Office: Foreign Office - Welcome to the German representations in the People's Republic of China. Retrieved July 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Joseph Maria von Radowitz on August 15, 1862, quoted from 100jia.net .
- ^ "Another Landmark to be Razed, German Consulate to be Rebuilt", North China Herald, March 10, 1937, p413
- ↑ Event calendar for the anniversaries ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2012 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. , Federal Foreign Office, accessed on November 29, 2013
- ↑ German Consulate General Shanghai: German Consulate General Shanghai, view of 30 years ( memento of the original from March 8, 2013 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. , Federal Foreign Office, accessed on November 29, 2013
- ↑ Brief description of the French concession
- ↑ History of the German Consulate General in Shanghai ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2012 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.
Coordinates: 31 ° 12 ′ 32.8 " N , 121 ° 26 ′ 34.5" E