List of German ambassadors in Iran

This article shows the list of heads of the German representation in Tehran ( Iran ) . Until 1954 Germany was only represented by envoys. In 1955 the legation was upgraded to an embassy. From this point on, the head of the mission bears the title ambassador.

Heads of mission

Envoy from the Prussian Kingdom and the German Empire

Julius von Minutoli (1st Prussian Prime Minister and Consul General of the German Customs Union in Persia, December 19, 1859 - November 5, 1860, journey through Persia to Bushehr, Vice Consul Heinrich Brugsch , representative after Minutoli's death until 1861)
Ernst von Braunschweig (1885–11 April 1886)
Gustav Adolf Schenck zu Schweinsberg (December 10, 1886– April 16, 1892)
Nikolaus von Wallwitz (October 6, 1893– January 2, 1896)
Günther von Gaertner-Griebenow (May 23, 1896– March 22, 1898)
Arthur Alexander Kaspar von Rex (December 3, 1898– May 17, 1906)
Wilhelm Stemrich (1906–1907)

Heinrich XXXI. Prince of Reuss, Tehran 1913

Albert Graf von Quadt-Wykradt-Isny (February 24, 1908– June 23, 1912)
Heinrich XXXI. Prince von Reuss younger line (August 11, 1912– July 19, 1916); only one embassy secretary remained in the embassy in Tehran until the war-related closure in 1917. German interests were represented by the US embassy.
Philipp Vassel , envoy to the Iranian government in Kermanshah , 1916. There was a provisional Iranian government supported by the German Reich under the leadership of Reza Qoli Khan Nezam al Saltaneh .
Rudolf Nadolny , ( chargé d'affaires of the German Embassy in the Iranian government in Kermanshah , from 1916 to 1917). On March 11, 1917, the German embassy in Kermanshah had to be given up. The government of Reza Qoli Khan Nezam al Saltaneh had disbanded due to the advance of Russian troops into Kermanshah.

no representative - the embassy in Tehran was closed (1917–1920), German interests were safeguarded by the Spanish ambassador after the USA entered the war against Germany.
Rudolf Sommer (June 1920-January 1923) Head of the Representation

Count of Schulenburg

Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (January 23, 1923– June 18, 1931)
Wipert von Blücher (October 1931–1935)
Johann Smend (July 1935– October 16, 1939)
Erwin Ettel (October 16, 1939 - September 1941)
no representative; the embassy was closed from September 1941 after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran .

Envoy, from 1955 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Lutz Gielhammer	July 1953-13. May 1959
Reinhold Renauld von Ungern-Sternberg	November 1959–1964
Franz Josef Bach	1964-1968
Georg von Lilienfeld	1968-1974
Hans-Georg Wieck	1974-1977
Gerhard Ritzel	1977-1981
Jens Petersen	1981-1986
Armin Friday	1986-1992
Reinhold Schenk	1992-1995
Horst Bächmann	1995-1998
Klaus Zeller	1998-2000
Rudiger Reyels	2000-2003
Paul von Maltzahn	2003-2006
Herbert Honsowitz	2006-2009
Bernd Erbel	2009-2013
Michael Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg	2013-2016
Michael Klor-Berchtold	from 2016

Web links

Website of the German Embassy in Iran. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .

Individual evidence

↑ Heinrich XXXI. von Reuss (1868–1929) was a son of Prince Heinrich LXXIV. Reuss to Köstritz .

[1] Heinrich XXXI. von Reuss (1868–1929) was a son of Prince Heinrich LXXIV. Reuss to Köstritz .