German Consulate General Boston

Welcome to the website of the German Consulate General in Boston. Here you will find information on Germany, the consular services we provide and German-related news and events in our area. We offer a wide spectrum of information, including travel, study, doing business in Germany and much more. Our German language website features information and news relevant to German citizens. 

The Consulate General’s area of jurisdiction covers Connecticut (except Fairfield County), Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.

“Freedom Without Walls”: Boston College dedicates Berlin Wall replica

Oct 21, 2009 | German Consulate Boston
Freedom without Walls

As a part of its “Freedom Without Walls” campaign to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Embassy in Washington, DC selected 29 universities and colleges throughout the US for special Campus Weeks. As one of six selected institutions in New England and the only one in the Boston area, Boston College presented an important part of this project on “Freedom Without Walls”. At a kick-off event on October 21, 2009, a replica of the Berlin Wall was dedicated on the Campus Green and is on display during the commemoration.The panels metaphorically represent the collapse of the Berlin Wall and a passageway to freedom.

German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth meets scientific, energy and military leaders in Boston

Oct 13, 2009 | German Consulate Boston
Scharioth visit

A fully packed Tuesday offered German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth his personal version of Ted Kennedy's famous portrait of Boston as „...the best of the past, and the best of the future“: Scharioth, who attended the Harvard Law School and the JFK School of Government and holds a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, did much more than trace his own footsteps when he came to Boston on October 13, 2009.

Franco-German Season Opener at Handel and Haydn Society

Oct 9, 2009 | German Consulate Boston
Franco-German Concert

The Handel and Haydn Society opened its 195th season on Friday, October 9, 2009 in Symphony Hall with a rare collaboration of two outstanding European artists in the field of period performance: The acclaimed German countertenor Andreas Scholl and the rising young French conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi performed some of the finest works by Baroque composers Antonio Vivaldi and George Frideric Handel with a period instrument orchestra.

Max-Planck-Society follows close upon Harvard

Oct 6, 2009 | ScienceWatch

Especially in the fields of Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry and Biology, Max-Planck Scientists belong to the top of the list. In a ranking conducted byScienceWatch, Max-Planck Society was placed second regarding the number and citation of its publications, directly behind top-rated Harvard.

Day of German Unity

Oct 5, 2009 | German Consulate Boston
Day of German Unity Celebration

Nineteen years ago, the 3rd of October 1990 marked the new beginning of Germany as a united country. To celebrate this historic date, on October 5, 2009, Consul General Friedrich Löhr and his wife Angela Zhang Löhr invited guests from all over New England to a reception at the beautiful building of the Goethe Institute in Boston.

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The Consul General

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The German Consulate in Boston is headed by Consul General Friedrich Löhr.

Freedom Without Walls: 1989-2009

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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of a new era in history. It was the end of the cold war, the beginning of a fully united Europe and proof that peaceful change is possible, even in the moments when it seems most unlikely.