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Ambassador Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff is photographed by journalists leaving a meeting at the U.S. State Department in 1938.. On December 12, 1941 – following Germany's declaration of war against the United States – Switzerland assumed the role of protecting power of Germany in the United States and took custody of the chancery of the German embassy; staff were, meanwhile, interned at the ...
The West German embassy in Stockholm was occupied by the Red Army Faction in 1975. In 1989 its embassies in Budapest and Prague sheltered fleeing East Germans while waiting for permission to travel onwards to West Germany; permission was subsequently given by the Czechoslovakian and Hungarian governments, accelerating the collapse of socialist ...
In the 1960s, the West German Embassy was the site of Jewish War veterans who were protesting signs in Germany of a revival of anti-Semitism. [8] In the 1970s, office space in the embassy was tight so an extension was erected at Chesham Place, inaugurated in 1978. It won the Westminster City Council prize for architecture.
The Embassy of Germany in Paris is the chief diplomatic mission of Germany in France. It is located on Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The current German Ambassador to France is Hans-Dieter Lucas. [1] There are also Consulates-General in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille and Strasbourg.
Germany and the United States have had diplomatic relations since German unification in 1871. Prior to that, the only German states holding diplomatic relations with the U.S. were the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1835, and the three Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, since 1853. [1]
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The embassy's legal and consular department offers all consular services to German citizens and offers help in emergencies. There is also an on-call telephone service. The embassy's consular district covers all of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The visa office issues Schengen visas for third-country nationals permanently residing in Switzerland ...
German embassy may refer to: List of diplomatic missions of Germany; List of diplomatic missions in Germany This page was last edited on 28 ...