Selected Events 2005

April 21, 2005. Hamburg Consul General Duane C. Butcher and Hamburg Senator and head of the Department of Civic Engineering and Environment Dr. Michael Freytag planted a sequoia tree as a symbol of long-enduring Hamburg-American relations. In his greeting, CG Butcher focused on U.S. commitment to transatlantic friendship and the importance of having a diplomatic representation of the United States in the Hanseatic City of Hamburg.