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The following year consulates-general were (re)opened in London, New York City, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome, and Athens (until 1951 these were not embassies, as by virtue of the Occupation Statute the three allied powers had competence of foreign affairs; these consulates were intended to just manage commercial & consular affairs).
New York City, the largest city in the United States, is home to the General Assembly of the United Nations, and all 195 member and observer states send permanent delegations. Nine diplomatic missions in New York City listed below are also formally accredited as each country's official embassy to the United States. There are 108 missions in the ...
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] Relations were broken twice (1917 to 1921, 1941 to 1955) while Germany and the United States were at war.
From 1975 the GDR's ambassadors to the U.S. were also accredited to Canada, until 1987 when East Germany opened an embassy in Ottawa. [1] Listed below are the head East German diplomatic agents to the United States, their diplomatic rank, and the effective start and end of their service in the United States.
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 ...
In the United States for example, most countries have a consulate-general in New York City (the home of the United Nations), and some have consulates-general in other major cities. Consulates are subordinate posts of their home country's diplomatic mission (typically an embassy, in the capital city of the host
Consul General in New Orleans. Ernst Wendler (1934–1936) Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (1937–1941) Consul General in New York. Hans Borchers (1933–1941) Consul General in Philadelphia. Erich Windels (1939–1941) Consul General in San Francisco. Fritz Wiedemann (1939–1941) Consul General in San Juan. Henry Freese (-1941 ...
Map of diplomatic missions in Germany. This article lists diplomatic missions resident in Germany.At present, Germany hosts 159 embassies. Since the reunification of Germany in 1990, and the decision of the federal parliament to move the capital from Bonn to Berlin in 1991, all countries that maintain resident embassies in Germany have moved to Berlin.