Swedish Embassy in Berlin

Swedish Embassy in Berlin

Foyer of the embassy in Berlin with the chair Bruno by Mats Theselius

Since 1999 the Swedish ambassador has resided in the Pücklerstrasse in Dahlem in the villa built in 1936 for Günther Werner-Ehrenfeucht . The garden was designed by Herta Hammerbacher and is now a listed building.

The Swedish Embassy in Berlin is the headquarters of the diplomatic representation of Sweden in Germany. It is located in the Tiergarten district of Berlin at Rauchstrasse  1 and is part of the Nordic embassies . Ambassador has been Per Thöresson since January 2017 , succeeding Lars Danielsson .

history

From 1912 the seat of the Swedish legation was at Tiergartenstrasse 36. During the Second World War , most of the embassy building was destroyed in the Allied air raids on November 22, 1943. Therefore, the Swedish embassy moved to Altdöbern Castle, 120 kilometers away - in Berlin only one contact office remained on Rauchstrasse 25 . The embassy staff remained in Germany until the end of the war and were only evacuated on May 18, 1945.

From 1948 a consul general resided in West Berlin . In 1950 an ambassador was sent to Bonn . In East Berlin , the Embassy of Sweden in 1972 was East Germany established. Its headquarters were in Otto-Grotewohl-Strasse 3a (now: Wilhelmstrasse 66) in Berlin-Mitte .

With the relocation of the seat of government , the Swedish embassy moved from Bonn ( entry in the embassy list ) to Berlin in 1999 . Today's embassy is located on the edge of the Great Zoo , where the Swedish embassy was already before the Second World War. The new building was built in 1997–1999 and is one of the five embassies that together make up the Nordic embassies. The architect of the Swedish Embassy is Gert Wingårdh . The interior is characterized by birch wood walls and copper details and the staircase. The embassy has three floors with a view of the Klingelhöferstrasse . The outer walls are made of limestone from Gotland and black diabase from Emmaboda . The building is managed by the State Works for Real Estate ( SFV ).

The ambassador's residence is located at Pücklerstraße 42/44 in Dahlem in the Villa Ehrenfeucht , designed by Wilhelm von Gumbertz-Rohnthal , built in 1936 and converted from 1998–1999 , which surrounds a garden designed by landscape architect Herta Hammerbacher .

See also

• List of the Swedish ambassadors in Germany

Web links

• Web presence of the Swedish Embassy in Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A new, old residence . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 13, 1999.
2. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List for the house Pücklerstrasse 42/44 in Berlin-Dahlem
3. ^ Sveriges ambassad i Berlin - The Swedish Embassy in Berlin. : Per Thöresson becomes the new ambassador in Berlin ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 2, 2017 
4. ^ Sveriges ambassad i Berlin - The Swedish Embassy in Berlin. Statens Fastighetsverk Stockholm. 1999.
5. ↑ Sveriges beskickningschefer i Tyskland. (PDF; 50 kB) (No longer available online.) Swedish Embassy Berlin, September 2011, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 1, 2016 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Diplomatic and other representations . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1989, p. 100.
7. ↑ Svenska ambassaden i Berlin 20-årsjubilerar. Retrieved November 12, 2019 (Swedish). 
8. ^ Berlin ambassad - SFV. Retrieved November 12, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Landesdenkmalamt Berlin : Garden of the House of Ehrenfeucht , accessed on April 2, 2017
10. ↑ Statens fastighetsverk : Berlin, Tyskland Ambassadörens residens , accessed on April 2, 2017

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '31.2 "  N , 13 ° 21' 2.5"  E