List of German ambassadors in France

This is a list of the German ambassadors in France . The ambassador is also accredited for the Principality of Monaco . The former seat of the embassy, ​​now the residence, is the Palais Beauharnais in Paris .

ambassador

Ambassador of the German Reich

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
Ambassador of the North German Confederation
Robert Heinrich Ludwig von der Goltz (* 1817, † 1869)		1868-1869
Karl von Werther (* 1809; † 1894)		1869-1870
/ / German Empire
Harry Graf von Arnim (* 1824; † 1881)		1871-1874
Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (* 1819, † 1901)		1874-1885
Count Georg Herbert zu Münster (* 1820; † 1902)		1885-1900
Prince Hugo Julius Eduard von Radolin (* 1841; † 1917)		1900-1910
Wilhelm von Schoen (* 1851; † 1933)		1910-1914
Wilhelm Mayer (* 1874; † 1923)		1920-1923
Leopold von Hoesch (* 1881; † 1936)		1924-1932
Roland Köster (* 1883; † 1935)		1933-1935
Johannes Graf von Welczeck (* 1878, † 1972)		1936-1939
Otto Abetz (* 1903; † 1958)		1940-1942 1943-1945	Worked in Paris / Vichy, Sigmaringen

Ambassador of the German Democratic Republic

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
German Democratic Republic
Herbert Merkel (* 1910; † 1967)		1956-1952	Handelsrat, head of the representation of the Chamber for Foreign Trade (KfA) of the GDR
Herbert Schulze		1962	Head of KfA
Willi Diebenkorn		1963-1967	Head of KfA
Gerhard Schramm (* 1923; † 2010)		1967-1973	Trade Councilor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of KfA
Diplomatic relations since February 9, 1973
Gerhard Schramm (* 1923; † 2010)		1973-1974	ambassador
Ernst Scholz (* 1913; † 1986)		1974-1976	ambassador
Werner Fleck (* 1931; † 2018)		1976-1984	ambassador
Alfred Marter (* 1934; † 1998)		1984-1990	ambassador

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
BR Germany
Wilhelm Hausenstein (* 1882; † 1957)		1950-1955	Consul General until May 1951, then Chargé d'Affaires until July 7, 1953, then Ambassador
Vollrath von Maltzan (* 1899, † 1967)		1955-1958
Herbert Blankenhorn (* 1904; † 1991)		1958-1963
Manfred Klaiber (* 1903; † 1981)		1963-1968
Sigismund Freiherr von Braun (* 1911; † 1998)		1968-1970
Hans Helmuth Ruete (* 1914; † 1987)		1970-1972
Sigismund Freiherr von Braun (* 1911; † 1998)		1972-1976
Axel Herbst (* 1918; † 2016)		1976-1983
Franz Jochen Schoeller (* 1926; † 2019)		1983-1987
Franz Pfeffer (* 1926)		1987-1991
Jürgen Sudhoff (* 1935)		1991-1995
Immo Stabreit (* 1933)		1995-1998
Peter Hartmann (* 1935)		1998-2000
Fritjof von Nordenskjöld (* 1938)		2000-2004
Klaus Neubert (* 1942)		2004-2007
Peter Ammon (* 1952)		2007-2008
Reinhard Schäfers (* 1950)		2008–2012
Susanne Wasum-Rainer (* 1956)		2012-2015
Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut (* 1960)		since 2015

Envoy from German States (before 1871)

Baden ambassadors

1791: Establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1713–1734: Johann Rudolf Fäsch (1680–1762), envoy
• 1761–1762: Ulrich von Thun (–1788), authorized minister
• 1772-1781: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), chargé
• 1781–1782: Giorgio di Santi, Chargé d'affaires
• 1783–1789: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817)

...

• 1803–1809: Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg (1773–1833)
• 1810–1831: Johann Baptist von Pfirdt (1749–1831)
• 1831–1843: Christian Friedrich Gerstlacher (1778–1850)
• 1843–1846: Franz Xaver von Andlaw-Birseck (1799–1876)
• 1846–1871: Ferdinand Allesina von Schweitzer (1799–1877)

1871: abolition of the embassy

Bavarian envoy

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Hanseatic envoy

→ Main article : List of Hanseatic ambassadors in France

Prussian envoy

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Saxon envoy

→ Main article : List of Saxon envoys in France

Wuerttemberg envoy

1650: Establishment of diplomatic relations

...

• 1814–1815: Ferdinand Ludwig von Zeppelin (1772–1829)
• 1815–1817: R. von Schwarz
• 1817-1820: Peter von Gallatin
• 1821–1838: Bernhard von Mülinen (1788–1851)
• 1838–1849: Christian Wilhelm August von Fleischmann (1787–1875)
• 1849–1850: vacant
• 1850–1871: August von Wächter (1807–1879)

1871: abolition of the embassy

See also

• List of permanent representatives of Germany to the OECD in Paris
• List of permanent representatives of Germany at UNESCO in Paris
• List of French ambassadors in Germany
• Franco-German relations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1955 worked a "permanent office of the Leipziger Messe" in Paris, which from 1956 referred to itself as chamber representation. On May 7, 1970, the GDR opened a foreign trade center in Paris. Source: GDR foreign policy - an overview - data, facts, people (III), LIT VERLAG Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2
2. ^ March 26, 1974, Ambassadeur de la République Démocratique Allemande. Retrieved March 18, 2010.
3. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 23 f .
4. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 425 .