List of ambassadors of the United States in Germany

This article lists the United States Ambassador to Germany. For the ambassadors of the United States in the GDR see List of Ambassadors of the United States in the GDR .

List of ambassadors of the United States in Germany .

Heads of mission

Envoy to the German Confederation

Accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited by the government	Leave post
September 13, 1848	Andrew Jackson Donelson	in Frankfurt am Main	James K. Polk	Frankfurt National Assembly	November 2, 1849

Ambassador to the German Reich

Accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited by the government	Leave post
August 28, 1867	George Bancroft	until 1869 envoy in Prussia (see below)	Andrew Johnson	Wilhelm I.	June 30, 1874
August 28, 1874	Bancroft Davis		Ulysses S. Grant	Wilhelm I.	September 26, 1877
0May 7, 1878	Bayard Taylor		Rutherford B. Hayes	Wilhelm I.	December 19, 1878
June 19, 1879	Andrew Dickson White		Rutherford B. Hayes	Wilhelm I.	August 15, 1881
May 18, 1882	Aaron Augustus Sargent		James A. Garfield	Wilhelm I.	0June 6, 1884
September 10, 1884	John A. Kasson		James A. Garfield	Wilhelm I.	June 21, 1885
June 21, 1885	George H. Pendleton		Grover Cleveland	Wilhelm I.	April 25, 1889
September 26, 1889	William Walter Phelps		Benjamin Harrison	Wilhelm II.	0June 4, 1893
0June 4, 1893	Theodore Runyon	from October 26, 1893 ambassador	Grover Cleveland	Wilhelm II.	January 27, 1896
0May 3, 1896	Edwin F. Uhl		Grover Cleveland	Wilhelm II.	0June 8, 1897
June 12, 1897	Andrew Dickson White		William McKinley	Wilhelm II.	November 27, 1902
December 19, 1902	Charlemagne Tower		Theodore Roosevelt	Wilhelm II.	0June 8, 1908
June 14, 1908	David Jayne Hill		Theodore Roosevelt	Wilhelm II.	0September 2, 1911
October 24, 1911	John George Alexander Leishman		William Howard Taft	Wilhelm II.	0October 4, 1913
October 29, 1913	James W. Gerard		Woodrow Wilson	Wilhelm II.	0February 5, 1917
December 10, 1921	Ellis Loring Dresel	Chargé d'affaires	Warren G. Harding	Constantin Fehrenbach	April 18, 1922
April 22, 1922	Alanson B. Houghton		Warren G. Harding	Joseph Wirth	February 21, 1925
June 29, 1925	Jacob Gould Schurman		Calvin Coolidge	Hans Luther	January 21, 1930
February 12, 1930	Frederic M. Sackett		Herbert Hoover	Heinrich Brüning	March 24, 1933
August 30, 1933	William Edward Dodd		Franklin D. Roosevelt	Adolf Hitler	December 29, 1937
0March 3, 1938	Hugh Robert Wilson		Franklin D. Roosevelt	Adolf Hitler	November 16, 1938
November 16, 1938	Alexander Comstock Kirk	Chargé d'affaires	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Adolf Hitler
000May 1939	Leland Burnette Morris	Chargé d'affaires	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Adolf Hitler	December 11, 1941

Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

Accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited by the government	Leave post
May 14, 1955	James Bryant Conant	in Bonn	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Konrad Adenauer	19th February 1957
April 17, 1957	David KE Bruce		Dwight D. Eisenhower	Konrad Adenauer	October 29, 1959
03rd December 1959	Walter C. Dowling		Dwight D. Eisenhower	Konrad Adenauer	April 21, 1963
May 18, 1963	George C. McGhee		Lyndon B. Johnson	Konrad Adenauer	May 21, 1968
May 27, 1968	Henry Cabot Lodge junior		Lyndon B. Johnson	Kurt Georg Kiesinger	January 14, 1969
July 22, 1969	Kenneth Rush		Richard Nixon	Kurt Georg Kiesinger	February 20, 1972
June 27, 1972	Martin J. Hillenbrand		Richard Nixon	Willy Brandt	October 18, 1976
October 27, 1976	Walter John Stoessel		Gerald Ford	Helmut Schmidt	05th January 1981
June 30, 1981	Arthur F. Burns		Ronald Reagan	Helmut Schmidt	May 16, 1985
September 16, 1985	Richard Burt		Ronald Reagan	Helmut Kohl	February 17, 1989
April 24, 1989	Vernon A. Walters		George HW Bush	Helmut Kohl	August 18, 1991
05th September 1991	Robert M. Kimmitt		George HW Bush	Helmut Kohl	August 28, 1993
October 19, 1993	Richard Holbrooke		Bill Clinton	Helmut Kohl	September 12, 1994
October 31, 1994	Charles E. Redman		Bill Clinton	Helmut Kohl	June 17, 1996
June 17, 1996	James D. Bindenagel	Chargé d'affaires	( Bill Clinton )	Helmut Kohl	September 10, 1997
September 10, 1997	John Kornblum	From July 7, 1999 in Berlin	Bill Clinton	Helmut Kohl	January 16, 2001
September 12, 2001	Dan Coats		George W. Bush	Gerhard Schröder	February 25, 2005
0September 2, 2005	William Timken		George W. Bush	Gerhard Schröder	0December 5, 2008
0December 5, 2008	John M. Koenig	Chargé d'affaires	( George W. Bush )	Angela Merkel	0September 3, 2009
0September 3, 2009	Philip D. Murphy		Barack Obama	Angela Merkel	0July 6, 2013
August 26, 2013	John B. Emerson		Barack Obama	Angela Merkel	20th January 2017
20th January 2017	Kent Logsdon	Chargé d'affaires	( Donald Trump )	Angela Merkel	May 8, 2018
May 8, 2018	Richard Grenell		Donald Trump	Angela Merkel	2nd June 2020
2nd June 2020	Robin Quinville	Chargé d'affaires	( Donald Trump )	Angela Merkel	officiating
nominated on July 29, 2020	Douglas Macgregor		Donald Trump	Angela Merkel	not yet confirmed by the US Senate

Envoys in the German states before 1871

Envoy in Prussia

Accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited by the government	Leave post
0December 5, 1797	John Quincy Adams	Minister in Berlin	John Adams	Friedrich Wilhelm III.	0May 5, 1801
0June 9, 1835	Henry Wheaton	Chargé d'affaires	Andrew Jackson	Friedrich Wilhelm III.	September 29, 1837
September 29, 1837	Henry Wheaton		Martin Van Buren	Friedrich Wilhelm III.	July 18, 1846
July 18, 1846	Andrew Jackson Donelson		James K. Polk	Friedrich Wilhelm IV.	September 13, 1848
June 30, 1849	Edward A. Hannegan	in Berlin	Zachary Taylor	Friedrich Wilhelm IV.	January 13, 1850
December 10, 1850	Daniel D. Barnard		Millard Fillmore	Friedrich Wilhelm IV.	September 21, 1853
0November 4, 1853	Peter Dumont Vroom		Franklin Pierce	Friedrich Wilhelm IV.	August 10, 1857
0September 3, 1857	Joseph Wright		James Buchanan	Friedrich Wilhelm IV.	0July 1, 1861
0July 1, 1861	Norman B. Judd		Abraham Lincoln	Wilhelm I.	0September 3, 1865
0September 3, 1865	Joseph Wright		Andrew Johnson	Wilhelm I.	May 11, 1867
August 28, 1867	George Bancroft	from 1871 envoy in the German Empire (see above)	Andrew Johnson	Wilhelm I.	June 30, 1874

See also

• Embassy of the United States in Berlin
• German Embassy Washington, DC with the list of German ambassadors in the United States

Web links

• US State Department: List of Chiefs of Mission for Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Berlin always stays in our hearts”. In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 30, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Robin S. Quinville. June 1, 2020, accessed on June 7, 2020 (German).