Kharkiv

The Consulate of Germany (in 1920-1937 years)

Buildings

Description

  • The house on the street Sumy, 54 from 1920 to 1937. It was the German Consulate

The house on the street Sumy, 54 from 1920 to 1937. was the German Consulate, and during the occupation of Kharkiv (1941-1943 gg.) - military commander and for some time the headquarters of the 55th Army Corps of the Wehrmacht, who took Kharkov in October 1941.

The house on the street Sumy, 54 from 1920 to 1937. was the German Consulate, and during the occupation of Kharkiv (1941-1943 gg.) - military commander and for some time the headquarters of the 55th Army Corps of the Wehrmacht, who took Kharkov in October 1941.

How to get there?

Maison à Sumy, 54, est proche de la station de métro «Université» et la place principale de Kharkov - Place de la Liberté.

And also nearby

HISTORY

  • House 2.5 floor built in the late XIX
  • When the city became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, here, on the street of Karl Liebknecht (now Sumy), 54, in 1920 opened the Consulate General of the Weimar Republic as informally became known after the defeat of Germany in World War I.
  • Consulate turned strongly associated with the memory of the greatest tragedy of the Ukrainian people in the twentieth century - the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

House 2.5 floor built in the late XIX century, the then owner of the site merchant Peter Novov. Before the Bolsheviks nationalized the building changed owners two more.

In December 1919 in Kharkov finally established Soviet power. When the city became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, here, on the street of Karl Liebknecht (now Sumy), 54, in 1920 opened the Consulate General of the Weimar Republic as informally became known after the defeat of Germany in the First World War.

House 2.5 floor built in the late XIX century, the then owner of the site merchant Peter Novov. Before the Bolsheviks nationalized the building changed owners two more.

In December 1919 in Kharkov finally established Soviet power. When the city became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, here, on the street of Karl Liebknecht (now Sumy), 54, in 1920 opened the Consulate General of the Weimar Republic as informally became known after the defeat of Germany in the First World War.