List of the Portuguese ambassadors in the GDR

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The list of Portuguese ambassadors in the GDR lists the ambassadors of the Republic of Portugal in the German Democratic Republic . Diplomatic relations began after the GDR was admitted to the UN in 1973. Relations only intensified after the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, which marked the end of the anti-communist authoritarian Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal.

The first Portuguese ambassador to East Berlin began his work on September 4, 1974 . With German reunification and the end of the GDR in 1990, the Portuguese diplomatic mission in East Berlin also ended and went to the Portuguese embassy in Bonn. Since the move in 1999, the Portuguese Embassy in Berlin has been representing Portuguese interests in Germany.

The embassy of the Portuguese Republic in East Berlin was located in the Berlin-Mitte district in Otto-Grotewohl-Strasse 3a (today's name Wilhelmstrasse 66).

Heads of mission

Portuguese ambassador to the GDR
Surname image Term of office Remarks
Flag of the German Democratic RepublicFlag of the German Democratic Republic German Democratic Republic
João Carlos Bessa Pinto Versteeg September 4,
1974 - December 2, 1974 		Business representative; Head of the embassy in East Berlin since September 3rd
Rui Eduardo Barbosa de Medina December 9, 1974 -
February 8, 1979 		Head of the embassy in East Berlin since December 3, 1974
Augusto Henrique D'Almeida Coelho Lopes April 20, 1979 -
November 1987 		Head of the embassy in East Berlin since March 15, 1979
Pedro Martins de Cunha Veiga Madeira de Andrade May 26, 1988–
1989/90 		Only one Portuguese embassy in Germany since German reunification and the end of the GDR in 1990

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Telephone book from East Berlin in 1989: Diplomatic representations , web archive of the Central and State Library Berlin , accessed on February 4, 2017
  2. ↑ List of Portuguese ambassadors in Germany , website of the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on September 13, 2019