Selected Events in 2006
Topping Off Ceremony for the New U.S. Embassy Building in Berlin
October 10, 2006.
The topping-off ceremony for the new U.S. Embassy building at Pariser Platz took place on October 10, 2006, two years after the groundbreaking. The ceremony celebrated the structural completion of the building.
In addition to Ambassador Timken, Ronald Norby, Vice President of the Hensel Phelps International construction company, Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit, Georg Boomgarden, State Secretary of the German Foreign Office, and Wolfgang Eberspächer of the HSG Technischer Service GmbH delivered remarks. After the official toast the wreath was hoisted. Speeches
• Remarks by Ambassador William R. Timken, Jr.
• Remarks by Ronald Norby, Vice President of Hensel Phelps International
• Richtspruch
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• New Embassy Building on Pariser Platz
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