Libyan Embassy (Bonn)

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Branch of the Libyan embassy, ​​Beethovenallee 12a (2014)

The Embassy of Libya in the Federal Republic of Germany was based in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn from 1976/77 to 2001 . The former office building of the embassy is located in the Godesberg-Villenviertel district on Beethovenallee (house number 12a) and was again the location of a branch office of the embassy from 2013/14 to 2018.

history

After the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany on June 5, 1961, the Kingdom of Libya opened an embassy at the seat of government in Bonn on September 15 , 1961, which took over the consular functions previously exercised for the country by the Royal British Embassy and the British consulates . The embassy office was initially located at Koblenzer Straße 115 (today Adenauerallee ) on the northern edge of the parliament and government district in Bonn. The residence of the embassy, ​​residence of the ambassador , was initially in the Venusberg district (Waldauweg 11); it was relocated to Beuel on the banks of the Rhine (Uferstrasse 17, today Rheinaustraße) by 1964 and to Bad Godesberg (Arndtstrasse 14, today Am Arndtplatz) by 1966 . The embassy office moved to Bonn's Südstadt ( Argelanderstraße 1 ) in 1966 . A property in the Bonn district of Gronau (Sträßchensweg 30) served as the embassy residence from 1969 , and from 1975 one in the Bad Godesberg district of Schweinheim (Belderbuschstraße 1). In 1976, Libya acquired the four-storey building Beethovenallee 12a in Bad Godesberg, which was the focus of diplomatic missions at the time, and relocated its embassy office there until the following year. At the time, mosques in Germany were also looked after and financially supported by the Libyan embassy .

After the introduction of a new constitution and the declaration of the Socialist Arab People's Republic (1977), the embassy in Bonn, together with other Libyan embassies, was renamed the “People's Office” on September 1, 1979 with reference to the state doctrine of direct democracy Bonn actually had five members - the "People's Committee", whose individual members were responsible for certain areas and were elected by Libyan citizens in the Federal Republic. As chargé d' affaires a. i. a member designated as secretary of the People's Committee in the People's Office acted . The residence in the Schweinheim district (Belderbuschstrasse 1) now served as the residence of this secretary. On November 13, 1982, during a meeting of the Libyan Student Union, two students were allegedly tortured by members of the People's Committee in order to extort a confession or to find out the names of opposition Libyans living abroad. Corresponding public prosecutor's investigations began in December 1983. On April 9, 1986, at the request of the USA, as a result of the attack on the La Belle discotheque in Berlin , the federal government expelled two members of the Libyan People's Office. The People's Office in Bonn was considered a starting point for international terrorism at the time. In Bonn, Libya also had a health office subordinate to the embassy in the Gronau district (Sträßchensweg 20).

As a result of the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin (1999), the Libyan People's Office moved there in December 2001. As a result, a consulate general with the consular district of North Rhine-Westphalia was left in the former embassy building in Bonn and was closed at the beginning of 2007. The building was vacant for several years until a branch office of the embassy was set up there again in 2013/14, which consisted of a health office - with the task of looking after Libyan citizens who would like to undergo medical treatment in Germany - and finally one Assistant Attaché was occupied (as of September 2018). The branch office was closed in September / October 2018.

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Commons : Beethovenallee 12a (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-598-11431-1 , p. 252.
  2. ^ Bulletin of the Federal Government's Press and Information Office , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1961, p. 1944.
  3. ↑ a b Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (status: March 1962, January 1964, June 1966)
  4. ^ List of diplomatic missions and commercial missions of foreign countries in the Federal Republic of Germany] (as of February 1, 1966) . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (Ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1966 No. 27 , p. 872 , Annex 1 ( online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 5.0 MB ]).
  5. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of June 1969)
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel, Volume 28, Issues 10-18, R. Augstein, 1974, p. 52.
  7. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of the diplomatic corps in Bonn (as of April 1975, September 1975)
  8. ^ Michael Wenzel: Small stories Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, p. 78.
  9. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of June 1977)
  10. ↑ Tim Szatkowski: Gaddafi's Libya and the Federal Republic of Germany 1969 to 1982 . In: Contemporary History in Conversation , Volume 15, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71870-6 , p. 33.
  11. ↑ concrete , Neuer Konkret Verlag, 1979, p. 24.
  12. ↑ Ingrid Schnurbusch: Libya in the crosshairs: 25 years Gaddafi , Bouvier, 1994, ISBN 978-3-416-02503-4 , pp 99th
  13. ↑ Foreign Office (ed.): List of diplomatic missions and other representations in Bonn (as of November 1980)
  14. ↑ Libyans live in fear of Gadhafi's henchers , General-Anzeiger, April 6, 1985, Bonn city edition , p. 3
  15. ↑ a b Stray dogs , Der Spiegel , January 3, 1983
  16. ↑ International Africa Forum, Volumes 19-20, European Institute for Political, Economic and Social Issues, 1983, p. 19.
  17. ↑ IPRAS Zaidi participates in torturing libyan students in Bonn, Nov. 82 , YouTube
  18. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Baumann: The Fischer Chronicle Germany 1949-1999 . In: Fischer Pocket Books General Series , Fischer Pocket Book, 1999, ISBN 978-3-596-14245-3 , p. 518.
  19. ^ A basic mood of fear , Der Spiegel, April 21, 1986
  20. ↑ Peter Niggl: Libya in Crosshairs , Part II, 1996
  21. ↑ Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz (eds.): Messages in Berlin , Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7861-2472-8 , p. 161.
  22. ^ Michael Wenzel: Small stories Bad Godesberger Messages , Bonn, 2nd edition 2011, p. 24.
  23. ↑ Libyan Consulate General ( Memento from August 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), businesstravel.de
  24. ↑ Bek. D. Prime Minister - III A 2 - 02.36 - 2/09 v. December 2, 2009: Closure of the Consulate General of the Socialist Libyan Arab People's Jamahiriya in Bonn , Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) - 2009 edition No. 34 of December 30, 2009, p. 606
  25. ↑ Federal Foreign Office - Representations in Libya ( Memento from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ Federal Foreign Office - Representations in Libya ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ↑ List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany (PDF) (as of September 19, 2018), Federal Foreign Office
  28. ↑ List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany (PDF) (as of September 19, 2018), Federal Foreign Office
  29. ↑ List of diplomatic missions and other representations in the Federal Republic of Germany (PDF) (as of October 1, 2018), Federal Foreign Office

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