Nigerian Embassy in Berlin

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NigeriaNigeria Nigerian Embassy in Berlin
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State level bilateral
Position of the authority Embassy
Supervisory authority (s) Foreign Ministry
Headquarters GermanyGermany Berlin
ambassador Yusuf Maitame Tuggar
(since September 20, 2017)
Website www.nigeriaembassygermany.org
Embassy building in Berlin

The Nigerian Embassy in Berlin is Nigeria's official diplomatic mission in Germany. It is located in the New Jakobstraße 4 in Berlin district center of the district of the same .

history

The African state of Nigeria had had an embassy in Bonn , the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany , since 1961 . It was located at Goldbergweg 13 there.

An ambassador was only appointed in 1982 for the Nigerian embassy in East Berlin as a representative in the German Democratic Republic . The embassy was located at Platanenstrasse 98a in Niederschönhausen in a Magdeburg-type prefabricated building from the 1970s . After the German reunification, this also served the Nigerian state as an embassy building until the move to the newly furnished embassy building in Berlin-Mitte in 2002.

As part of the refugee protests in 2012 , around 20 people broke into the embassy during a demonstration on October 15, 2012 in order to occupy it . The action was intended to protest against Germany's deportation practice , which, according to the demonstrators, is particularly actively supported by the Nigerian embassy. There were several arrests and use of pepper spray by the police. A few days later, the building was pelted with paint bottles, after which the state security opened an investigation.

architecture

The Nigerian embassy building is located in a restored, plastered old building at Neue Jakobstrasse 4 in Berlin-Mitte. The building used as a typical Berlin apartment building and has been a listed building since the 21st century was built in 1874, the architect is unknown. It was built as part of the historical development of Luisenstadt according to the Schulze-Delitzsch plan and, unlike a large part of the district, was not destroyed in the Second World War.

The four-story house consists of a detached building base and the upper floors, which are kept in the late classicist style. The windows on the upper floors are richly decorated. The windows on the first floor, the bel étage , are framed by Corinthian half-columns and a complex roof, the decorations become simpler towards the top. In contrast, the facade of the first floor is rusticated like brick . A side entrance on the ground floor leads into the interior of the building and into the courtyard. Rosettes decorate the entrance area.

literature

  • Kerstin Englert, Jürgen Tietz (ed.): Embassies in Berlin . 2nd Edition. Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7861-2494-9 , p. 178.

Web links

Commons : Nigerian Embassy in Berlin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Protest against asylum policy: demonstrators wanted to occupy the Nigerian embassy , Tagesspiegel from October 15, 2012
  2. State security investigated: Nigerian embassy attacked with colored bottles ( memento of October 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , Tagesspiegel of October 18, 2012

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 40.7 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 46.9 ″  E