Consulate General of the State of Israel (Munich)
The Consulate General of the State of Israel in Munich has existed since 2011. It is based on Karolinenplatz in the Maxvorstadt district . It is the only Israeli consulate general in Germany.
function
The area of responsibility of the consulate general (consular district) includes the states of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . It has the Press & Public Relations , Innovation & Research , Culture , Tourism and Trade & Economy departments . The consulate general is manned by three diplomats: the consul general, a consul and an envoy for business and trade. It has a total of almost 20 employees (as of November 2015).
history
On April 8, 2011, the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer and the Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman signed a joint declaration on the establishment of a Consulate General of the State of Israel in the Free State of Bavaria . It started its work in September 2011 and was initially located in an office building at Brienner Strasse 19 (Maxvorstadt), which was intended only as a temporary measure from the start , and in which there was no party traffic . Since February 2012, the Consulate General has also had a trade and economic department with the Israel Trade Center , which is subordinate to the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor and is also responsible for Austria . The grand opening took place on July 3, 2012.
At the beginning of 2014, the decision was made to permanently accommodate the Consulate General in a rear building belonging to the Free State of Bavaria of the then state lottery headquarters on Karolinenplatz, which moved out of the property in summer 2014. It was gutted , modernized and rebuilt for around eight million euros ; The costs were shared between the Free State of Bavaria as the owner and the State of Israel as the tenant of the property. The location was also chosen because of its symbolic historical significance in the immediate vicinity of monuments from and for the time of National Socialism such as the Führerbau and the Nazi Documentation Center built in place of the Brown House that was destroyed after the war . On November 10, 2015, the new headquarters of the Consulate General was inaugurated in the presence of high-ranking guests, including Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely and Central Council President Josef Schuster ; However, due to a delay in the renovation, the building was only to be occupied three months later. The Consulate General has had a representative office in Frankfurt am Main since spring 2016 .
Consuls General
- 2011–2013: Tibor Shalev locksmith
- 2013-2017: Dan Shaham
- since 2017: Sandra Simovich
building
The building of the Consulate General has three floors and covers around 1,000 m². The first floor houses the economic and trade department (Israel Trade Center), the public rooms of the Consulate General are on the upper floor. Both Bavarian and Israeli stone are used in the stairwell. There is a graphic on the facade that connects the Bavarian diamond pattern with the Star of David ; It also lists the names of Jewish personalities from Germany and sentences from the Hebrew Torah .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c About the Consulate General , Consulate General of the State of Israel
- ^ Departments , Consulate General of the State of Israel
- ↑ a b c Israel defies Munich's Nazi past ( memento from November 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , Bayerischer Rundfunk , November 10, 2015
- ↑ Israeli Consulate General opened in Munich , Embassy of the State of Israel, April 8, 2011
- ↑ Representations in Israel , Foreign Office
- ↑ Commerce & Economy , Consulate General of the State of Israel
- ^ Israeli economic department opened in Munich , israelnetz, July 3, 2012
- ^ Opening ceremony of the Israel Trade Center in Munich ( Memento from July 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , invest in Bavaria, July 4, 2012
- ↑ The Israeli consulate wants to move into the middle of the former Nazi quarter , Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 13, 2014
- ↑ Israeli Consulate General in old Nazi quarters , Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 17, 2015
- ↑ The Consulate General presents its new building , Consulate General of the State of Israel
- ↑ a b New Consulate General opened: Israel is now at Karolinenplatz , Münchner Merkur , November 11, 2015
- ^ Fourth German-Israeli Friendship Day , Consulate General of the State of Israel, May 24, 2016
- ↑ Servus, Consul , Jüdische Allgemeine , July 25, 2013
- ↑ Consul General , Consulate General of the State of Israel