Ghanaian Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Foreign Ministry | ||
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 Berlin
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| Ambassador | Gina Ama Blay (since 2017) | ||
| Website | www.ghanaemberlin.de | ||
The Ghanaian Embassy in Berlin is the headquarters of the Ghana's diplomatic mission in Germany . It is located at Stavangerstraße 17 and 19 in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the Pankow district .
Architecture and use
The two buildings used by the Ghanaian embassy were formerly two separate embassy buildings. The free-standing, brick-built, three-story cubes were built by the GDR in the 1970s as the Pankow III series ; Eckart Schmidt's design was erected 25 times between 1971 and 1973 in and around Stavanger Strasse. At that time, many embassy buildings were needed in East Berlin , because after the end of the Hallstein Doctrine, many states recognized the GDR diplomatically.
Originally, the embassies of Switzerland , Belgium and Indonesia in the GDR resided in the type buildings in and around Stavanger Straße , which moved to more central locations in Berlin after German reunification and the capital city resolution. Only the Cuban embassy is still the original tenant, and since the 1990s the embassies of Eritrea , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Mongolia and Cape Verde have moved into the area in addition to Ghana .
history
After its independence in 1957, the Republic of Ghana agreed diplomatic relations with all major countries in the world. Ambassadors were exchanged with the then Federal Republic of Germany in the same year . The representative from Ghana took a first seat in the Adenauerallee in Bonn , the federal capital between 1949 and 1999. Later there was a move to an office in Bad Godesberg ; a total of six diplomatic missions were housed here.
Diplomatic missions were also agreed with the GDR in 1972. The embassy received a villa at Waldstrasse 10 in Berlin-Niederschönhausen .
In line with the decision to move the government from Bonn to Berlin, Ghana followed and in 2002 moved into the houses previously built for diplomats at Stavanger Strasse 17 and 19 in the Prenzlauer Berg district.
Structure of the message
The following functional departments are set up in the embassy:
- Office, overall administration of the embassy including responsibility for personnel selection and services.
Management is carried out by a senior foreign officer who is deployed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Accra. - Political and Economic Department
It is responsible for the cooperation with political and economic institutions in Germany including the collation and analysis of facts about the host country, which are given to the relevant institutions, primarily to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Accra - Consular department
with the tasks of issuing visas for trips to Ghana and issuing passports for Ghanaians living in Germany - Trade Department
When the embassy opened in 1957, the Ghanaian Ministry of Commerce assigned an official to this task. He had to promote trade between Ghana and Germany. From the 1980s onwards, the law firm's economic department was transferred. A separate department has only been set up in the 2000s. The main trade is the import of cocoa , gold and wood from the African country in exchange for the delivery of machines, hospital equipment and heavy equipment from Germany to Ghana. In addition, the permanent establishment of companies in the other country is the goal. - Information department
This is headed by an official from the Ghanaian Ministry of Information. The most important tasks are the dissemination of information about the Republic of Ghana in Germany in the form of publications or public events, the promotion of tourism, the organization of trade fairs and exhibitions about Ghana - Department for Education
This supports and looks after students from Ghana in particular - Finance
tasks are to secure the financing of the work of the embassy in Germany as well as support in financial transactions between the countries
List of ambassadors of the Republic of Ghana in Germany
| Surname | Term of office | Comments, possibly picture |
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| E. Rebeiro | 1962-1963 | |
| EK Doe | 1963-1969 | |
| FL Bartels | 1970-1972 | |
| EK Otoo | 1972-1974 | |
| Harry Reginald Amonoo | 1974-1977 | |
| FAY Djaisie | 1977-1980 | |
| EM Yakubu | 1980-1982 | |
| KS Adusei Poku, KS | 1984-1992 | |
| Robert Georg Nipah | 1994-2001 | |
| Rowland Issifu Alhassan | 2001 – Sept. 2006 | |
| Grant O. Kesse | 2006-2010 | |
| Paul King Aryene | 2010, July – 2014 | |
| Akua Sena Dansua | 2014, July – 2017 | biography |
| Gina Ama Blay | 2017, August | biography |
Web links
- Web presence of the Ghanaian embassy in Berlin
- 50 years of relations between Ghana and Germany ( Memento from May 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ The 10th Embassy Walk: Embassy architecture as a type construction from Pankow I to Pankow III on BauNetz . (Retrieved April 5, 2011.)
- ↑ Markus Ehrenberg: The United States of Pankow . In: Die Zeit , No. 04/2002.
- ^ Telephone book for the capital of the German Democratic Republic Berlin. 1989 edition, p. 100
- ↑ Accreditation of ambassadors. 3rd July 2014
- ↑ Biography of Ambassador Dansua (English) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2016 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 September 28, 2016.
- ↑ Accreditation of ambassadors. 29th August 2017
- ↑ Biography of Ambassador Blay (English)
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '24.56 " N , 13 ° 24' 34.56" O