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The Embassy of Germany in London is the diplomatic mission of Germany in the United Kingdom. [2] The embassy is located at Belgrave Square , in Belgravia . [ 2 ] It occupies three of the original terraced houses in Belgrave Square and a late 20th-century extension.
Germany and the United Kingdom have had diplomatic relations since German unification in 1871. [1] Prior to that, the only German states holding diplomatic relations with the U.K. were the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1835, and the three Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, since 1853.
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 ...
This is a list of diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom. At present, the capital city of London hosts 167 embassies and high commissions. Several other countries have ambassadors accredited to the United Kingdom, with most being resident in Brussels or Paris. There are also a number of Honorary Consuls resident in various locations in the UK.
The representative of West Germany by the head of state council and the representative of East Germany by the president of the republic. By contrast, East Germany did consider West Germany a completely separate country, meaning that while the East German mission in Bonn was accredited to the West German Chancellery, its West German counterpart ...
A German passport A German identity card is valid for travel to most European countries. Visa requirements for German citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Germany. As of 5 February 2025, German citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 189 countries and territories.
The UKVI's role has widened in the aftermath of Brexit. In January 2021, the UK implemented a new points-based immigration system, and EU, EEA, and Swiss citizens who resided in the UK must have applied to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after the Brexit transition period. [7]
During the partition of Germany following World War II the Ambassador to the new Federal Republic (or West Germany) resided in Bonn, the capital, from 1952. Berlin once more became the capital at reunification in 1990 and the ambassador returned to Berlin in a new Embassy building, on the exact site of its predecessor in the Wilhelmstrasse, in ...