Head of Protocol in the German Foreign Office

The Chief of Protocol in the German Foreign Office in Germany an official of the Foreign Office in the rank of a Ministerial serving as master of ceremonies the formal part of state visits according to a diplomatic protocol manages and organizes. He is the head of the protocol department that helps him with these tasks.

So far, chief of protocol in the Foreign Office was:

April 17, 1924 to April 1925 Ferdinand von Gülich
April 28, 1925 to January 1929 Roland Köster
March 1, 1929 to October 17, 1932 Franz von Tattenbach
October 17, 1932 to 1934 Rudolf Graf von Bassewitz , representative: Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein
1934 to July 1938 Vicco von Bülow-Schwante
From July 1938 to May 1945 Alexander von Dörnberg
From 1951 to 1955 Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld was Erica Pappritz's deputy

1956 Ernst-Günther Mohr

1957 to 1958 Hans Erich Friedrich Ernst Maximilian Graf von Carmer (born May 31, 1907 in Zieserwitz; † January 22, 1977 in Hanover) Deputy: Bernhard von Tieschowitz

1959 to 1962 Sigismund von Braun

1963 to 1965 Ehrenfried von Holleben

March 21, 1966 to 1970 Hans Schwarzmann

1971 to 1975 Max Graf von Podewils-Dürnitz

1975 to 1980 Franz Jochen Schoeller , representative of Hermann Holzheimer (* 1928 in Aschaffenburg )

1980 to 1984 Hans-Werner Graf Finck von Finckenstein

1984 to 1988 Werner Ludwig Botho Hubertus Graf von der Schulenburg

until 1996 Johannes Dohmes , representative: Dietmar Kreusel

1996 to 2000 Bernhard von der Planitz

2000 to 2003 Busso von Alvensleben

2003 to 2006 Bernhard von der Planitz , representative: Wilfried Bolewski

2006 to 2010 Rainald Steck