Namibian Embassy in Berlin

Namibian Embassy in Berlin
State companies , ministries and institutions in Namibia
Designation:	Embassy of the Republic of Namibia to the Federal Republic of Germany
State level:	Embassy
Founding:	1990
Highest office:	ambassador
Officials:	Andreas Guibeb
Headquarters:	Berlin , Germany
Superordinate position:	Ministry of International Cooperation and Cooperation
Homepage:	www.namibia-botschaft.de

Goldsteinvilla

The Namibian Embassy in Berlin ( English Embassy of the Republic of Namibia to the Federal Republic of Germany) is the official diplomatic representation of the Republic of Namibia in Germany . It is headquartered in Goldstein Villa in the national route 17, in the Berlin district of Westend the district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf .

The embassy , which was founded in 1990, has jurisdiction over the Holy See , Poland and Turkey .

Embassy building

It is a house built in 1923 for the Jewish textile manufacturer Eugen Goldstein according to plans by Curt Leschnitzer . After Goldstein was expropriated during the Nazi era , it served as the headquarters of the Deutsche Eisenhandels- AG . After 1945, among other things, Hertha BSC became the owner and other clubs used the premises. Since 2008 the villa has been owned by the state of Namibia , which set up its embassy here. The almost square building with two floors offers a usable area of around 270  square meters without an attic. It is designed in the style of neoclassicism and is characterized by its monumental entrance area with a large flight of stairs .

ambassador

• Nora Schimming-Chase (July 1992–1996)
• Hinyangerwa Asheeke (1996-2003)
• Hanno Rumpf (March 2003 - August 2006)
• Peter Katjavivi (September 2006 - April 2008): Katjavivi was dismissed as Ambassador on April 8, 2008, as he was to take over the position of Director of the National Planning Commission with immediate effect.
• Gerhard Theron (April 2008 - January 2009) provisionally
• Neville Gertze (January 2009 - February 10, 2015)
• vacant (February 10, 2015 - January 6, 2016)
• Andreas Benjamen Dawid Guibeb (since January 6, 2016)

Departments

The Namibian Embassy takes on numerous tasks in diplomatic cooperation, which are divided into the following departments:

• Ambassador's office
• Politics and press work
• defense
• economy and trade
• Culture / Visa / Consulate / Social

Honorary Consulates

• In Germany :  
  • Hamburg - for Hamburg
  • Laatzen (Honorary Consulate General) - for Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt
  • Pfungstadt - for Hessen
  • Trossingen - for Baden-Württemberg

See also

• List of Namibian missions abroad
• Namibian Embassy in Vienna
• German Embassy Windhoek

Web links

• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List: Reichsstrasse 17

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reichsstrasse 17 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, IV.
2. ↑ Ground area roughly measured on Google Earth , multiplied by a factor of 2 (= 2 floors)
3. ^ Embassy press release. Embassy of the Republic of Namibia in the Federal Republic of Germany, January 6, 2016, No. 1/07012016.
4. ↑ Honorary Consulates. Embassy of the Republic of Namibia in Germany, accessed on February 23, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 51.8 "  N , 13 ° 15 ′ 53.2"  E