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The
Federal Republic of Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 84 ...
manages 227
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s abroad. Of these, 153 are embassies, 52 consulates-general, 7 consulates, and 12 multilateral missions making it one of the world's largest diplomatic networks. In addition, there are 337 honorary consuls, which are not included in this list. Furthermore, Germany maintains a representative office in
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and an institute in Taipei, which serves as de facto embassies to the
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and
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, respectively. When in a non-EU country where there is no German embassy, German citizens as EU citizens have the right to get consular protection from the embassy of any other EU country present in that country.


History

Historically, the German state of
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and several smaller German states had sent emissaries abroad prior to the establishment of the
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, a precursor to the modern
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. In 1874, Germany had only four embassies (in
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, and
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), but this was complemented by non-ambassadorial representation in the form of 14 ministerial posts (in
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, and to the
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), seven consulates-general with diplomatic status (in
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), and 37 consulates and vice-consulates headed by consular officers. By 1914, five additional embassies were established in
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,
Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
,
Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
,
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, and
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. The Foreign Office progressively reformed itself at this time to serve Germany's rising commercial and colonial interests abroad, as well as to reflect the professionalization of
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affected the Foreign Office. In 1935 the Reich Citizenship Act led to the forced retirement of over 120 tenured civil servants. Positions and structures were created to imbed
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representatives, and the SS began to be posted abroad as "police attachés". Under
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the Reich Foreign Ministry grew from 2,665 officers in 1938 to a peak of 6,458 in 1943, despite missions abroad closing as a consequence of the
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. Germany's post-war diplomatic network started as early as 1949 with a mission in
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to the newly formed
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. The following year consulates-general were (re)opened in
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, and
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(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).
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's
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grew, and by the time of Germany's reunification in 1990, there were 214 diplomatic missions abroad. Following
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, the Federal Republic inherited several diplomatic representations of the
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of former
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. The West German embassy in
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was
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by the
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in 1975. In 1989 its embassies in
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and
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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 hegemony in Eastern Europe.


Current missions


Africa

File:German Embassy Tanzania (Daressalam).jpg, Embassy in Dar es Salaam File:German Embassy, Lilongwe, Malawi, 14 April 2021.jpg, Embassy in Lilongwe File:Deutsche Botschaft Maputo (23803540446).jpg, Embassy in Maputo File:German embassy monrovia.jpg, Embassy in Monrovia


Americas

File:Embajada de Alemania en la Ciudad de México.jpg, Embassy in Mexico City File:Embajada de Alemania en Uruguay.JPG, Embassy in Montevideo File:German Embassy Ottawa.jpg, Embassy in Ottawa File:BritishHC PortofSpain.jpg, Embassy in Port of Spain File:Consulates-General of France and Germany in Rio de Janeiro.jpg, Consulate-General in Rio de Janeiro File:Embajada de Alemania, Vitacura, Santiago 20230326 02.jpg, Embassy in Santiago File:Embassy of Germany, Washington.jpg, Embassy in Washington, D.C. File:NYC German consulate.jpg, Consulate-General and Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City File:German Consulate General in San Francisco.jpg, Consulate-General in San Francisco


Asia

File:Embassy of Germany in Ankara 01.JPG, Embassy in Ankara File:Consulate-General of Germany in İstanbul.jpg, Consulate-General in Istanbul File:German Embassy, central Baghdad, Iraq.jpg, Embassy in Baghdad File:Deutschland Damaskus.jpg, Embassy in Damascus File:German Embassy Dhaka 2.jpg, Embassy in Dhaka File:Deutsche Botschaft Hanoi.jpg, Embassy in Hanoi File:Deutsche Botschaft in Maskat - السفارة الألمانية في مسقط - panoramio.jpg, Embassy in Muscat File:201908 German Consulate-General in Shanghai.jpg, Consulate-General in Shanghai File:Botschaft Tokyo.jpg, Embassy in Tokyo File:2018 Umeda Sky Building.jpg, Building hosting the consulate-general in Osaka File:German Embassy at République Démocratique Populaire Lao.JPG, Embassy in Vientiane File:Embassy of Germany in Yerevan.JPG, Embassy in Yerevan


Europe

File:German Embassy in Belgrade 2024 (1).jpg, Embassy in Belgrade File:Bern Brunnadernrain 31 Embassy of Germany in Switzerland DSC01393.jpg, Embassy in Bern File:Nesterov palác 1.jpg, Embassy in Bratislava File:64-66, Úri utca, Budapest 1014.jpg, Embassy in Budapest File:Entrance of Portland Towers.jpg, Embassy in Copenhagen File:German Embassy in a classic Dutch building Den Haag - panoramio.jpg, Embassy in The Hague File:Saksan Helsingin-suurlähetystö.jpg, Embassy in Helsinki File:Embassy of Germany in Kyiv 2.jpg, Embassy in Kyiv File:German Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal 03.jpg, Embassy in Lisbon File:Nemsko veleposlanistvo v Ljubljani german embassy ljubljana Slovenia.jpg, Embassy in Ljubljana File:DtBotschaftGB.jpg, Embassy in London File:Deutsche Botschaft in Madrid (Spanien) 01.jpg, Embassy in Madrid File:Embassy of Germany in Belarus (Minsk, February 2020) p3.jpg, Embassy in Minsk File:German Embassy Mosfilmovskaya Street.jpg, Embassy in Moscow File:General Consulate of Germany.jpg, Consulate-General in Saint Petersburg File:German embassy, EU delegation, Sarajevo.jpg, Embassy in Sarajevo File:Oscars gate 45 - 2009-06-20 at 17-30-55.jpg, Embassy in Oslo File:German embassy in Prague.jpg, Embassy in Prague File:DeUkEmbassyRkv.JPG, Embassy in Reykjavík File:Riga DeutscheBotschaft.jpg, Embassy in Riga File:Ambasciata di Germania in Italia - 30-11-2019.jpg, Embassy in Rome File:Tysklands ambassad 2010.jpg, Embassy in Stockholm File:Deutsche Botschaft Tirana.jpg, Embassy in Tirana File:Embassy of Germany to Estonia in Tallinn.jpg, Embassy in Tallinn File:Deutsche Botschaft Wien.jpg, Embassy in Vienna File:Ambasada Niemiec (12010288106).jpg, Embassy in Warsaw File:WROCŁAW, AB. 044.JPG, Consulate-General in Wrocław


Oceania

File:German Embassy in Canberra.jpg, Embassy in Canberra File:WellingtonEmbassy-Germany.jpg, Embassy in Wellington


Multilateral organisations


Closed missions


Africa


Americas


Asia


Europe


Oceania


Travel warnings and "''Krisenvorsorgeliste''"

Germany regularly publishes travel warnings on the website of the
Auswärtiges Amt The Federal Foreign Office (, ; abbreviated AA) is the foreign ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany, a federal agency responsible for both the country's foreign policy and its relationship with the European Union. It is a cabinet-level ...
(Federal Foreign Office) to its citizens. The Office allows German citizens to register online in a special list, the Krisenvorsorgeliste ("Crisis preparedness list") before they travel abroad (''Elektronische Erfassung von Deutschen im Ausland LEFAND' Electronic Registration of Germans Being Abroad). With a password, the registered persons can change or update their data. The registration is voluntary and free of charge. It can be used for longer stays (longer than 3 months), but also for a vacation of only two weeks. The earliest date of registration is 10 days before the planned trip.


See also

*
Foreign relations of Germany The Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is a Central European country and member of the European Union, G4, G7, the G20, the Organizations for Economic Co-operation and Development and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It maintains ...
* List of diplomatic missions in Germany *
PSA BPOL ''Polizeiliche Schutzaufgaben Ausland der Bundespolizei'' (PSA BPOL) ("Police Protection Tasks Abroad of the Federal Police", formerly known as ''ASSIK'' for ''Arbeitsstab Schutzaufgaben in Krisengebieten'') is a specialized unit of the German Fe ...
the security team of Germany tasked with providing protection for German embassies abroad *


Notes


References


External links


Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...