Eritrean Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
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Embassy |
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| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
| Consist | since 1999 | ||
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 Berlin
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| Chargé d' affaires a. i. | Yohannes Woldu Habtemikael | ||
| Website | www.botschaft-eritrea.de | ||
The Eritrean Embassy in Berlin is the diplomatic representation of Eritrea in Germany . The embassy building is located at Stavangerstraße 18 in the Berlin district of Pankow in the district of the same name . The post of ambassador is currently vacant; since March 2009 the embassy has been headed by Yohannes Woldu Habtemikael .
history
Eritrea is one of the youngest independent states on the African continent. The national territory had been an Italian colony since 1890 . Between 1941 and 1945 the state was under British military administration. In 1950 the United Nations incorporated it into the Ethiopian Union of States with a special status and in 1962 it was completely annexed by Ethiopia. In May 1993 Eritrea gained independence and set up embassies in several states . Eritrea's first representation in Germany opened in 1993 in Cologne (Marktstrasse 8). As a result of the Bonn-Berlin Act , the embassy moved to a suitable building in Berlin. The two-storey house in Berlin-Pankow, previously built for Algeria , has been the seat of the Eritrean diplomatic mission since the beginning of 2012.
Building history
Between the prefabricated housing estates in Prenzlauer Berg and the settlements of the 1930s in Pankow, an embassy district emerged in the 1970s. For the diplomatic representation of Algeria in East Berlin (which was officially not allowed to be called 'Embassy'), the architect Eckart Schmidt from VEB Housing Combination designed a functional building from the Pankow III prefabricated building in a standardized simple construction , which served as the residence of the Algerian ambassador until 1999 . The actual embassy was in Bonn .
Between 1999 and 2002 the duos Architektur + office renovated the house in Stavangerstraße. Due to moisture damage, the masonry and floor were renewed, and windows and roof cladding replaced.
architecture
The Pankow III building consists of two offset cubes that are connected by a common staircase. There is only facade decoration in the form of vertical tile strips and playful window grilles on the side, which originate from the construction period and have been preserved.
With the exception of one room on the upper floor, all rooms have been adapted as offices - including the top floor, which was originally created as a residence. The ambassador resides at Gotlandstrasse 14, also a Pankow III building .
literature
- Kerstin Englert / Jürgen Tietz: Embassies in Berlin. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7861-2472-8 , p. 273.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Representations of Eritrea in Germany . Federal Foreign Office, accessed on December 16, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '22 " N , 13 ° 24' 36" E