Consulate General of the United States, Hamburg

Consulate General of the United States in Hamburg
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General information
Type	Diplomatic mission
Architectural style	Historicism
Location	Hamburg, Germany
Address	Am Alsterufer 27/28 20254 Hamburg Germany
Coordinates	53°33′43″N 9°59′48″E / 53.561944°N 9.996667°E / 53.561944; 9.996667
Construction started	1882 and 1893
Owner	U.S. Government
Design and construction
Architect	Martin Haller

The Consulate General of the United States of America in Hamburg is a diplomatic mission representing the United States of America to the city of Hamburg and the land of Schleswig Holstein in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Government of Hamburg counts the promotion of the then Vice-Consul John Parish to the rank of a consul in 1793 as the establishment of the first mission. The consulate-general represents the interests of the United States government in the German states of Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Schleswig-Holstein.

I do hereby pray and request the Governors, Burgomasters and Senate of the Imperial free City Hamburgh, to permit the said John Parish fully and peaceably to enjoy and exercise the said Office (Vice Consul), without giving or suffering to be given unto him any Molestation or Trouble, but on the contrary to afford him all the proper Countenance and Assistance; I offering to do the same for all those who in like manner be recommended to me by the said Governors, Burgomasters and Senate of the Imperial free City Hamburgh.

The first American mission to Hamburg was established in 1790 and John Parish was named Vice Consul. In 1793 Parish was promoted to the rank of a consul. In 1897, Hugh Pitcairn was appointed to the consulate, and in 1903 appointed to be Consul General by President Roosevelt.

During the participation of the US in the First and Second World War all consulates in the German Empire were closed. On 1 March 1946 the US Government reopened the consulate in Hamburg, and in 1950 purchased the building at Alsterufer on the shore of Lake Außenalster.

In 2007 Ms. Karen E. Johnson succeeded Duane C. Butcher as consul general in Hamburg. As of 2009, 31 consuls and 22 consuls general had served in Hamburg.