List of the German ambassadors in Italy

The list of German ambassadors in Italy contains all ambassadors and highest-ranking representatives of the North German Confederation (1866–1871), the German Empire (1871–1945) and the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1951) in the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) and the Italian Republic (since 1946). The capital of Italy and the official seat of the German embassy were Turin (1861–1865), Florence (1865–1870) and Rome (since 1870). The German ambassador in Rome is also accredited for the Republic of San Marino .

The heads of the chamber representation or ambassadors of the GDR (1958–1990) in Italy are listed in the list of ambassadors of the GDR .

Heads of mission

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
North German Confederation
Guido von Usedom (1805-1884)		1868-1869	1863–1868: Prussian envoy
Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade (1798–1872)		1869-1872
/ / German Empire
Robert von Keudell (1824–1903)		1873-1887
Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde (1825–1912)		1887-1893
Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929)		1893-1897
Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch (1836–1900)		1897-1899
Karl von Wedel (1842–1919)		1899-1902
Anton von Monts (1852–1930)		1903-1909
Gottlieb von Jagow (1863-1935)		1909-1913
Hans von Flotow (1862-1935)		1913-1915
John von Berenberg-Gossler (1866–1943)		1920-1921
Konstantin von Neurath (1873–1956)		1921-1930
Ulrich von Hassell (1881–1944)		1932-1938
Hans Georg von Mackensen (1883–1947)		1938-1943
Otto Prince von Bismarck		August 1942 – August 1943	Chargé d'affaires
Rudolf Rahn (1900–1975)		1943-1945	General representative in Salò
BR Germany
Clemens von Brentano (1886–1965)		1951-1957
Manfred Klaiber (1903–1981)		1957-1963
Herbert Blankenhorn (1904–1991)		1963-1965
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1904–1999)		1965-1969
Rolf Lahr (1908–1985)		1969-1973
Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg (1912–1982)		1974-1977
Hans Arnold (August 14, 1923)		1977-1981
Rüdiger von Wechmar (1923-2007)		1981-1983
Lothar Lahn (1921–1994)		1983-1986
Friedrich Ruth (1927-2016)		1986-1992
Konrad Seitz (* 1934)		1992-1994
Dieter Kastrup (* 1937)		1994-1998
Fritjof von Nordenskjöld (* 1938)		1998-2000
Klaus Neubert (* 1942)		2001-2004
Michael H. Gerdts (* 1947)		2004-2007
Michael Steiner (* 1949)		2007-2010
Michael H. Gerdts (* 1947)		2010–2012
Reinhard Schäfers (* 1950)		2012-2015
Susanne Wasum-Rainer (* 1956)		2015-2018
Viktor Elbling (* 1959)		since 2018

Envoy from German states before 1871

See also : List of Member States in the German Confederation

Bavarian envoy

→ Main article : List of Bavarian envoys in Italy

Prussian envoy

→ Main article : List of Prussian ambassadors in Italy

See also

• List of Italian ambassadors in Germany
• Ambassador of the GDR in Italy
• German Embassy Rome

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Law Gazette of the North German Federation Volume 1869, page 288 on Wikisource
2. ↑ s: ADB: Usedom, Karl Georg Ludwig Guido Graf von
3. ^ Federal Law Gazette of the North German Federation Volume 1869 , page 288 on Wikisource
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. 99, 143 .
5. ↑ zeno.org
6. ^ Otto Fürst von Bismarck (CDU)