Embassy of France, Berlin

The French Embassy in Berlin is the diplomatic mission of France to Germany. The embassy building is located on the Pariser Platz 5 in the Berlin district of Mitte. Ambassador since March 14, 2011 Maurice Gourdault -Montagne.

History

Since the German unification in 1871, there was until the war ended in 1945, the Embassy in the destroyed in the Second World War Palais Beauvryé in the same place as today. After France practiced as a member of the Allied Control Council of the authority with respect to Germany. For the restoration of German sovereignty belonged in 1955 instead of the Allied High Commission and the establishment of a French embassy at the seat of the federal government in Bonn.

After the diplomatic recognition of the GDR by France in 1973, emerged in its capital Berlin in the street Unter den Linden between Frederick Street and Church Street Neustädtischer a new French embassy building. This house continued to be used after the German reunification until the new building on the old site.

Today's embassy building was built from 2001 to 2002 after plans by the Parisian architect Christian de Portzamparc and the Berlin architect Steffen Lehmann. Since 1994, applies on Pariser Platz, a design regulations. The concept goes back to Josef Paul Kleihues and is a key aspect of the design regulations on Pariser Platz, symbolized by his home and summer house Liebermann. The building of the French Embassy follows these principles through -compliance with eaves and the accented base. The division into three zones, however, is not strictly carried out, which contributes to loosening of the place. The embassy building has entrances on the Pariser Platz and at the Wilhelmstrasse; the latter usually serves as a visitors' entrance. In between the L-shaped structure extends in the block; through it performs the " Rue de France " as the connection between William Street and Pariser Platz.