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Contact
Address: Pariser Platz 2, D- 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: (+49) 30 8305 0
Fax: (+32) 2 513 07 41
E-mail: feedback@usembassy.de
Chargé d'Affaires
Alan Meltzer
Alan Meltzer, a career officer of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, assumed his role as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin in July 2024. From May-July 2023, he served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central and Eastern Europe, having served the previous two years as Director of the Office of Central European Affairs. He served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires a.i. at the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (2018-21) and as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires a.i. at the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2015-18). His career has been divided between Eurasia and Latin America. He served as Counselor for Political-Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia and also worked in Mexico City; Moscow; Montevideo; and Guatemala City. Mr. Meltzer is a recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Service Award, a four-time recipient of senior performance pay, and a five-time recipient of the Department of State’s Superior Honor Award.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Meltzer was an Attorney-Adviser in the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser and practiced corporate and international trade law in New York.
A native of New York, Mr. Meltzer received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Haverford College. In 2014, he was a Distinguished Graduate of the National Defense University’s College of International Security Affairs. He speaks Spanish, Russian, and some German. He is married to Anna Meltzer — an international public health specialist — and has an adult daughter. In his free time, he and Anna enjoy exploring Berlin and, whenever possible, Germany beyond Berlin.
History
The United States moved its embassy in Germany from Bonn to Berlin on July 7th, 1999. Upon this move, the former-Embassy in Bonn became the U.S. Office Bonn, and it finally closed on April 3, 2000.
The history of U.S.-German relations in the first half of the twentieth century was rocky, reflecting the two world wars in which the United States and Germany fought on opposite sides. Since the end of World War II in 1945, U.S.-German relations have been a focal point of American involvement in Europe.
As prospects for early reunification of Germany dimmed, the United States established full diplomatic relations with the FRG on May 6th, 1955, when the FRG Diplomatic Mission in Washington was raised to Embassy status under Ambassador Heinz L. Krekeler. The American Embassy in Bonn was established on May 14th, 1955, when James Conant, U.S. High Commissioner, presented his credentials as the first U.S. Ambassador to the FRG. On September 4th, 1974 the United States and the German Democratic Republic released a joint statement and the diplomatic relations were established between them.
Today, German-American political, economic, and security relationships continue to be based on close consultation and coordination at the most senior levels.
