Germany–Vietnam relations

German–Vietnamese relations
Map indicating locations of Germany and Vietnam

Germany
Vietnam

Germany–Vietnam relations are the bilateral relations between Germany and Vietnam.

Germany has an embassy in Hanoi and a consulate general in Ho Chi Minh City, while Vietnam has an embassy in Berlin and a consulate general in Frankfurt.

History

World War I

During the first 6 months of World War I the government-general of French Indochina expelled all German and Austro-Hungarian people living in French Indochina.[1]

The two largest pre-war import/export houses, Speidel & Co. and F. Engler & Co., were German companies which caused them to be officially re-organised as French companies, however in reality they continued to operate under both German control and using German capital.[1] During the 1910s Speidel & Co. was the largest importer of European goods into the country with Engler being one of its major competitors.[1] After the German owners were expulsed from the company lower level employees tried to continue running these companies despite increasing push back from the French colonial authorities by means of arbitrary customs enforcement, freight interference, and regulatory aggravations.[2][1] Later the French would seize all of the German Speidel Company's warehouses and would sell the seized goods at low prices both to Vietnamese consumers and Chinese exporters to try and increase revenue.[1] These goods included rice, wine, and canned goods.[1]

Vietnam War

Vietnamese students in Leipzig (1958)

East Germany (GDR) established diplomatic contacts with socialist North Vietnam and supported them with humanitarian and financial aid during the Vietnam War, whereas West Germany supported South Vietnam. Under the slogan “Solidarity with Vietnam” against the “imperialist aggressor” (the US), numerous GDR citizens provided aid. In 1968, for example, 50,000 trade unionists donated blood in a relief operation. The Stasi also helped to build up the North Vietnamese secret service. After the reunification of Vietnam, the close relationship continued.[3] Due to an acute shortage of workers, the GDR and Vietnam signed a contract in April 1980 for the dispatch of contract workers.[4] In return for the provision of development aid amounting to one billion East German marks, Vietnam subsequently sent 200,000 guest workers to the GDR. The GDR was also able to import scarce goods such as coffee, tea, rubber and pepper from Vietnam.[5] In 1989, the year of reunification, the 60,000 Vietnamese in the country were the largest group of foreigners in the GDR.[6]

West Germany supported the US in the Vietnam War, but didn't send troops. In 1967, the German chemical and pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim supplied 720 tons of trichlorophenolate lye to a subsidiary of Dow Chemical in New Zealand, which the company used to produce Agent Orange for the Vietnam War.[7] The sale was made public in 1991 by a report in Der Spiegel and confirmed by Boehringer Ingelheim another year later.[8]

After 1990

Relations between the two countries improved after the Đổi Mới reforms and German reunification, and development aid in the areas of education, energy and the environment as well as economic relations were resumed. From the very beginning, the most important priority areas of development cooperation between the Federal Republic of Germany and Vietnam were the promotion of economic reforms and the development of a market economy.[9] German companies became increasingly active in Vietnam.

In October 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng signed the "Hanoi Declaration", establishing a Strategic Partnership between Germany and Vietnam that is designed to strengthen political, economic and cultural relations and development cooperation.[10] As part of increased political cooperation, there is a exchange between Germany and Vietnam at all levels. Since 2011, more meetings have been held to improve cooperation on project funding, including in the areas of political-strategic dialog, business, trade and investment, justice and law, development cooperation and environmental protection, education, science, technology, culture, media and society.[11]

2017 kidnapping of Trịnh Xuân Thanh

In 2017, Trịnh Xuân Thanh, a former communist party member and businessman who was accused of being corrupt, was secretly abducted and kidnapped in Berlin by a group of unnamed Vietnamese personnel believed to be Vietnamese agents in Germany.[12] In response, Germany accused Vietnam for "violating the territorial rights of Germany" and ordered a total expulsion of a number of Vietnamese foreign officials in Germany.[13] Germany also suspended Vietnamese workers from going to Germany to start for investigation.[14]

Economic relations

Deutsches Haus Ho Chi Minh City, a building promoting German representation in Vietnam

Vietnam is in the process of ratifying a free trade agreement with the European Union which includes Germany as Europe's largest economy. In 2016, bilateral trade was worth US$10.3 billion.[10] By 2023, total trade had grown to €17.2 billion with a €10.1 billion trade balance in Vietnam's favour.[15]

Education cooperation

The Vietnamese-German University was opened in Ho Chi Minh City in September 2008.[10]

Diplomatic representatives

Vietnamese ambassadors to Germany

South Vietnam ambassadors to West Germany (in Bonn)
  1. Hà Vĩnh Phương (1957–1963, Chargé d'affaires)
  2. Phan Văn Thính (1963–1964, Chargé d'affaires)
  3. Nguyễn Quí Anh (1964–1968)
  4. Nguyễn Duy Liễn (1968–1974)
  5. Nguyễn Phương Thiệp (1974–1975, until the Fall of Saigon)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Erica J. Peters (8 October 2014). "Food and Nutrition (Indochina). - Version 1.0". 1914-1918-online - International Encyclopedie of the First World War (Free University of Berlin, Bavarian State Library, and Deutsch-Französische Gymnasium, among others). Retrieved 21 August 2022. - Peters, Erica J.: Food and Nutrition (Indochina), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin (2014-10-08). DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10321.
  2. ^ Centre des Archives d’Outre-Mer in Aix-en-Provence (hereafter CAOM): Archives of the Governor General of Indochina (hereafter GGI), dossier 19457: 20 November 1914 letter from Governor General Vollenhoven to the Minister of Colonies.
  3. ^ "Deutschlands Rolle in Vietnam nach Abzug der USA – DW – 27.01.2023". dw.com (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  4. ^ Mai, Marina (2020-04-11). "Vietnamesische Vertragsarbeiter in DDR: Sie blieben". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  5. ^ WDR (2020-04-21). "Vietnam: Gastarbeiter in der DDR". www.planet-wissen.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  6. ^ mdr.de. "DDR und Nordkorea | MDR.DE". www.mdr.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  7. ^ Schnibben, Cordt (1991-08-04). "Der Tod aus Ingelheim". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  8. ^ "Eine unselige Geschichte". Der Spiegel (in German). 1992-11-22. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  9. ^ Werz, Nikolaus; Hofmann, Norbert von; Bussiek, Hendrik (2014). Demokratieförderung unter schwierigen Bedingungen: die Tätigkeit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Venezuela, Vietnam und Simbabwe (in German). Dietz. ISBN 978-3-8012-0448-8.
  10. ^ a b c "Federal Foreign Office".
  11. ^ Hanoi declaration (German)
  12. ^ Tanriverdi, Hakan; Zierer, Max; Wetter, Ann-Kathrin; Biermann, Kai; Nguyen, Thi Do (October 8, 2020). Nierle, Verena; Schöffel, Robert; Wreschniok, Lisa (eds.). "Lined up in the sights of Vietnamese hackers". Bayerischer Rundfunk. Ex-politician and businessman Trinh Xuan Thanh was strolling through the park Berliner Tiergarten with his girlfriend when presumably agents of the Vietnamese secret service jumped out of a van and dragged the two inside. With the kidnapping on German grounds, they not only broke international law but also the arm of Thanh's lover. [...] The price for this operation was probably very high, both financially and diplomatically. The relations between Vietnam and Germany were suspended.
  13. ^ "Germany expels Vietnam diplomat after kidnapping". Financial Times. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  14. ^ "Kidnapped? Vietnamese businessman disapears [sic] from Berlin – DW – 08/02/2017". dw.com. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  15. ^ Largest trade partners of Germany (2023)
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