The Embassy of Belarus in

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(german: Botschaft der Republik Belarus in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, be, Пасольства Рэспублікі Беларусь у Федэратыўнай Рэспубліцы Германія) is the diplomatic mission of

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

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. The current Belarusian

ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

to Germany is Dzianis Sidarenka.

History

The short-lived

Belarusian Democratic Republic The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR; be, Беларуская Народная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Narodnaja Respublika, ), or Belarusian Democratic Republic, was a state proclaimed by the Council of the Belarusian Democratic R ...

, which declared independence in March 1918, has established an extraordinary diplomatic mission in Berlin which was active in 1919 – 1925.Прадстаўніцтва БНР у Нямеччыне

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by Uładzimier Sakałoŭski - Official website of the

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Although the republic received no diplomatic recognition by Germany, its representation was officially registered with the German foreign ministry in March 1919. Representatives of the Belarusian Democratic Republic had official contacts with the German government and meetings with the German foreign minister

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. The mission was actively engaged in helping Belarusian war prisoners, publishing information about Belarus. It was also a coordinating centre for diplomatic missions of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in several other countries. The diplomatic mission was located at Motzstrasse 21, apt. 30, and the Belarusian Press Bureau (''Weißruthenisches Pressebüro''), affiliated with the diplomatic mission, was located at Kaiser-Allee 209. In 1923, Germany formally established diplomatic relations with the Soviet-controlled

Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

.Bilaterale Beziehungen
ilateral relations- Official website of the Embassy of Belarus in Germany However, no effective bilateral relations were conducted and no embassies opened in either Minsk or Berlin at that time. After the restoration of the independence of Belarus following the

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, the diplomatic relations with Germany were officially restored in 1992 with reference to the diplomatic relations established in 1923. The embassy of Belarus in Germany was officially opened in Bonn, Fritz-Schäffer-Straße 20, in 1994 by ambassador Piotra Sadoŭski in the presence of minister Piatro Kraŭčanka and German State Secretary of the Foreign Ministry Dieter Kastrup.Адкрыцьцё амбасады Рэспублікі Беларусь у Нямеччыне, 1994 г. (Відэа)
pening ceremony of the embassy of Belarus in Germany, 1994 (video)- Official website of the

In 1996, the embassy was relocated to

following the city’s restoration as the German capital.

Current buildings

The embassy occupies two 19th-century villas. One of these served as a residential building before the

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and later became a post office in the times of the

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. In December 1996, the building was acquired by the

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.Geschichte der Botschaft
istory of the embassy- Official website of the Embassy of Belarus in Germany The second building was known as ''Villa Luise'' and was built by architect Paul Höfchen in 1888. The house was mentioned by

Theodor Fontane Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known toda ...

in his ''

Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg ''Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg'' ("Ramblings through Brandenburg", "Rambles in Brandenburg" or "Walks through the March of Brandenburg") is a five-volume travelogue by the German writer Theodor Fontane, originally published in 1862&ndash ...

''.

Ambassadors

Belarusian Democratic Republic (heads of the extraordinary diplomatic mission)

Arkadź Smolič Arkadź Smolič (also spelled Arkadzi Smolich, ; 29 September 1891 - 17 June 1938) was an academic, active participant of the Belarusian independence movement and a victim of Stalin's purges. Biography Arkadź Smolicz, white Аркадзь А ...

(May – August 1919) * Lavon Zajac (August – October 1919) * Leanid Barkoŭ (October 1919 – 1921) * Andrej Baroŭski (1921 – 1925)

Republic of Belarus (ambassadors)

* Piotra Sadoŭski (1992 – 1994) * Piotr Bialiayeu (1995 – 1998) * Uladzimir Skvartsou (1999 – 2009) * Andrej Hiro (2009 – 2015) * Dzianis Sidarenka (since 2016)

Links

Official website

Адкрыцьцё амбасады Рэспублікі Беларусь у Нямеччыне, 1994 г. (Відэа)
pening ceremony of the embassy of Belarus in Germany, 1994 (video)- Official website of the

References

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Belarus–Germany relations Buildings and structures in Berlin Government buildings completed in 1996 1992 establishments in Germany