Hungarian Embassy in Berlin
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 0.4 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 51.5 ″ E
The Hungarian Embassy in Berlin is the headquarters of the diplomatic mission of Hungary in Germany. It is located on the boulevard Unter den Linden 76 in the Berlin district of Mitte in the district of the same name .
history
Until 1918 Hungary part of the Austro-Hungarian -Monarchie Austria-Hungary , whose diplomatic representation at the German Reich to 14 (now Bettina Arnim-Ufer von) from 1890 on Kronprinzenufer in Alsen quarter was. An independent Hungary emerged from the collapse of Austria-Hungary at the end of the First World War . The newly formed Hungarian Legation Office first moved into the house at 8 Corneliusstrasse and later a palace at Drakestrasse 2 in Berlin-Tiergarten . Today the property is part of the expansion area of the zoological garden , only the neighboring property with the former Danish embassy is still built on.
The Hungarian envoy in Berlin was Döme Sztójay from 1935 to 1944 , who was already active there as a military attaché from 1925 to 1933 . Sztójay belonged to the inner circle of imperial administrator Miklós Horthy and had "unshakable confidence" in the victory of National Socialist Germany , with which Hungary was allied. After his recall from Berlin, Sztójay was the Hungarian Prime Minister and executed in Hungary in 1946.
At the end of the Second World War , the legation building was destroyed. At the same time, as a result of the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces in May 1945 , Germany had lost its state sovereignty and therefore no longer had foreign relations. The victorious Allied powers exercised government power in Germany through military governments, with representations of the states allied with them being accredited as military missions to the Allied Control Council. Hungary, which belonged to the defeated Axis powers , regained its sovereignty in February 1947 with the Paris Peace Treaty , but was initially not represented in Berlin.
Only after the GDR was recognized by the Hungarian People's Republic on October 18, 1949, there was a Hungarian diplomatic mission in East Berlin , which was elevated to an embassy in 1953. It was located at Puschkinallee 49 in Berlin-Treptow . In October 1966 it relocated to a new building on Unter den Linden and Otto-Grotewohl-Straße . In West Berlin , the People's Republic maintained a consulate at Reifträgerweg 27–29 in Nikolassee . After German reunification and the move of the federal government to Berlin , Hungary closed the embassy in Bonn in 1999 , while the Unter den Linden location was retained. A new building was built there from 1999 to 2001 instead of the previous building.
Ambassador in Berlin was Gergely Prőhle from summer 2000 to the end of 2002 , then Sándor Peisch until 2010 , who was replaced by József Czukor in December 2010 . The Hungarian ambassador has been Péter Györkös in Berlin since November 2015 .
Building Unter den Linden
In October 1966 the Hungarian Embassy moved its headquarters to the street Unter den Linden 74-76 at the corner of Otto-Grotewohl-Straße in a new building that was erected instead of a war ruin with an unobstructed view of the Brandenburg Gate .
The Hungarian government decided - despite monument protection - to build a new building based on a design by the architect Ádám Sylvester. It was built from 1999 to 2001 in place of the previous building. The opening took place on September 11, 2001.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ authorities . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1913, part 2, p. 15.
- ↑ authorities . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1924, part 3, p. 7.
- ^ Matthias Donath: Architecture in Berlin 1933–1945. A city guide . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 99
- ^ Eric Roman: Austria-Hungary & the Successor States . Infobase, New York 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4537-2 , p. 564.
- ↑ Messages . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1963, p. 37.
- ↑ New Hungarian ambassador in Berlin: Prof. Dr. József Czukor . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
- ^ National Monument Council protests against the demolition of the Hungarian embassy . Senate Department for Urban Development, October 27, 1998; Retrieved October 7, 2013
- ^ Ulrich Paul: Roland Ernst establishes the Hungarian embassy . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 18, 1998.
