Indonesian Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority |
Embassy |
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| Supervisory authority (s) |
Foreign Ministry |
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| Consist | since 1952 | ||
| Headquarters |
 Berlin , Lehrter Strasse 16 |
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| ambassador | Arif Havas Oegroseno (since May 8, 2018) |
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| Employee | around 60 | ||
| Website | www.kemlu.go.id/berlin/ | ||
The Indonesian Embassy in Berlin is the diplomatic representation of the Republic of Indonesia in the Federal Republic of Germany . It is located since 2000 in the district Moabit of the district center in the Lehrter Strasse 16. Like all diplomatic missions is the establishment especially the care of bilateral relations as well as the representative of Indonesian interests in the Federal Republic.
history
Federal Republic
On June 25, 1952, the Federal Republic of Germany established diplomatic relations with the Republic of Indonesia. Starting in 1953, the Indonesian government rented suitable houses in various locations in what was then the federal capital of Bonn for its various areas of responsibility in Germany . Over the years, as relationships grew closer, there were multiple new locations for the embassy.
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Most recently (until the embassy moved to Berlin ) the Indonesian diplomats used a new building financed by their government in Bad Godesberg (see picture). The office building in Bonn was a two-story building, executed in the modern style according to plans by the architect Dirk Denninger and surrounded by a larger garden.
GDR
On December 21, 1972, the governments of Indonesia and the GDR decided to establish diplomatic relations. The GDR Consulate General in Jakarta , which had existed since 1960, was raised to the rank of an embassy.
In East Berlin , the Indonesian representatives moved into a building in the Pankow district , Esplanade 9. The house was a relatively unadorned prefabricated building erected at the end of the 1960s and originated from the reuse project (called "Pankow II") developed by the Eckart Schmidt building collective . In the then three-storey cube-shaped building with a striking flight of stairs, wide windows, parapets made of exposed concrete , partly clad with split bricks, there were apartments and office rooms for the embassy staff.
Germany as a whole
On February 1, 2000, the embassy moved from Bonn to the German capital Berlin . The office building and other associated facilities in Bonn remained the property of Indonesia until 2016, after which they were publicly auctioned.
The house on the esplanade was cleared. As you can see in the picture, the new users put an entire floor on top, the outside staircase was removed and the exposed concrete disappeared under a new cladding. There is now (as of 2019) an Aldi store on the property .
Embassy building
The embassy building used in the center of Berlin is located in the middle of a residential area near Berlin Central Station . It was built in the 1990s; the architect is not known. It is plastered in an intense red, divided into six axes and six floors and has a rectangular floor plan with the dimensions: 60 m long, about 20 m deep. The entrance area is adorned with a two-window wide glazed bay window that extends over the entire construction height . The top floor consists of a ribbon of windows. A comparison of a photo from March 2014 with the situation in November 2019 (introductory photo) shows that the gate passage is now closed with a massive metal roller door and a metal picket fence protects the area in front of the street. The embassy building is separated from the historic residential building and the corresponding property directly to the northwest by a building-high and around 35 m long building perpendicular to the street. Inside there is a conference and reception room with red carpeting and a national coat of arms as an eye-catcher on the wall.
At the end of the 19th century there was a residential building at this point. In 1925 the Berlin address book said: The owner is the Centrum Berlinische Bodenbesitz-Gesellschaft , which had its headquarters in Krausenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte . In 1936, the address book showed the Schröder heirs as the owners, some tenants - probably on the ground floor - were business people (car lights, trucking company, master plumber). Shortly before the end of the war, in 1943 there were only garages on plot 16/17 (front building). Apparently the former house was demolished around 1940. Between 1946 and 1990 there was no information in the West Berlin address and telephone books at Lehrter Strasse 16 or 17. Instead of the former garages, the embassy building is now under number 16/17.
The former warehouse building of the Hertie department store , which was built at the beginning of the 20th century and located in the courtyard closer to the former railway line, was converted into loft apartments in the mid-2010s according to plans and under the direction of the Baumhauer Architects team . The completion and occupancy of the two-storey house, which initially had five floors, took place in 2018. From the street side, the loft house can be recognized through the gate entrance. On the occasion of the construction work, the district office finally decided to change the address: Parcel 16–17 became the address Lehrter Strasse 17. The front building that was used by the embassy was given the number 16 and is considered a special use.
In 2013 the district office had decided on a development plan for plots 6 to 22 ( B-Plan 1-91B - Lehrter Straße 6-22 - construction project Lehrter 17 ), which was publicly displayed . On this basis, a mixed development was built in the area until 2017, with the multi-unit a & o hotel at the main train station now adjoining the embassy building to the south-east .
Working method and structure
The head of the authority is supported by a deputy, there are also employees for politics, economics, public relations, social and cultural affairs, the protocol and consular department, employees for defense, education and culture, trade, immigration and general administration.
Subordinate to the embassy are consulates general in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg as well as honorary consulates in Bremen , Munich and Stuttgart .
ambassador
- February 19, 2017 to May 2018: Fauzi Bowo
- since May 8, 2018: Arif Havas Oegroseno
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ambassador of Indonesia in Berlin
- ↑ GDR consulate general opened in Djakarta. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 9, 1960, p. 1.
- ^ Diplomatic relations between the GDR and Indonesia. In: Neues Deutschland , December 22, 1972, p. 7.
- ^ Telephone book for the capital of the German Democratic Republic Berlin. 1989 edition , p. 100.
- ^ Joachim Schulz, Werner Graebner: Berlin. Capital of the DDR. Architecture guide GDR. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1974; P. 116.
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/usbekistan-ist-jetzt-eigentuemer-des-ballhauses-tiergarten/119044.html
- ↑ Image Embassy of Indonesia, 2014 , accessed on November 28, 2019.
- ↑ Lehrter Strasse 16/17 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, IV, p. 556.
- ↑ Lehrter Strasse 16/17 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1936, IV, p. 482.
- ↑ Lehrter Strasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, IV, p. 494.
- ↑ project Lehrter Staße 17. Accessed on 24 November 2019 .
- ↑ Loftblick 17 , marketing name of the converted warehouse. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
- ↑ a b Lehrter Straße - Have you lived illegally for more than 100 years? at www.moabitonline.de, accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ↑ Local planning • Lehrter Straße. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Official and staff (head and team of the diplomatic mission). 2018, accessed November 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Employees of the embassy (picture and description of the work areas). Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Representations in Indonesia at www.auswaertiges-amt.de
- ↑ Accreditations by ambassadors , February 19, 2014.
- ↑ Accreditations by ambassadors , May 8, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 45.8 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 47.9" E