List of Swiss ambassadors in Germany
The Swiss ambassadors in Germany head the diplomatic representation of the Swiss Confederation in Germany .
Heads of mission
Swiss envoy in the German Empire
| Appointed / Accredited |
Leave post | Surname | Remarks | appointed by | Government in Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1867 | 1868 | Joachim Heer | Constant Fornerod | Wilhelm I. | |
| 1871 | 1876 | Bernhard Hammer | Jakob Dubs | ||
| 1877 | 1904 | Arnold Roth | Supplementary agreement to the trade agreement between Germany and Switzerland | Joachim Heer | |
| 1904 | 1917 | Alfred de Claparède | Additionally accredited in Sweden. | Robert Comtesse | Wilhelm II. |
| 1917 | 1917 | Robert Haab | Additionally accredited in Sweden | Edmund Schulthess | |
| 1917 | 1919 | Philippe Mercier | Additionally accredited in Sweden | Edmund Schulthess | |
| 1919 | 1922 | Alfred von Planta | Additionally accredited in Sweden (until 1920) | Gustave Ador | Philipp Scheidemann |
| 1922 | 1922 | Gaston Carlin | Robert Haab | Joseph Wirth | |
| 1922 | 1932 | Hermann Rüfenacht | Cabinet Wirth II | ||
| 1932 | Feb. 1938 | Paul Dinichert | Giuseppe Motta | Papen's cabinet | |
| 1938 | Apr 30, 1945 | Hans Frölicher | From September 3, 1939: The United Kingdom's protective power until 1945 at the latest. | Johannes Baumann | Cabinet Hitler |
After the death of Adolf Hitler on April 30, 1945 until the beginning of 1951, Switzerland had no official diplomatic relations with Germany because the Goebbels cabinet did not recognize it. The consuls general in Frankfurt , Cologne and Munich, among others, remained in office .
Swiss ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
Until 1948, François de Diesbach Torny (* 1907; † 23 July 1949) was responsible for repatriating the Swiss who remained in Germany. Felix Schnyder (* March 5, 1910 - † November 8, 1992) was then 1949/1950 head of the Swiss military mission approved by the Allied Control Council with comparable tasks. Albert Huber officiated from the beginning of May 1948, initially as the representative of his country in the Bizone . After the establishment of the Swiss diplomatic mission in Bonn in autumn 1949, he was accredited to the Allied High Commission on December 15, 1949 with the rank of authorized minister.
Until 1957, the Swiss Confederation had no ambassadors , so that the leading diplomats had the status of ambassadors . It was only in the course of a global restructuring of the Swiss diplomatic service in 1957 that all 27 Swiss legations were converted into embassies. The decisive factor here were various inconveniences associated with the lower rank of Swiss diplomats in terms of protocol.
| Appointed / Accredited |
Leave post | Surname | Remarks | appointed by | Government in Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1949 | 1951 | Albert Huber | Initially representative of Switzerland with the rank of "Minister" (in Cologne) | Ernst Nobs | at the Allied High Commission |
| 1951 | 1958 | Albert Huber | With the establishment of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany in March 1951, Huber was appointed envoy and plenipotentiary minister and then in 1957 ambassador in Cologne. | Eduard von Steiger | Cabinet Adenauer I |
| 1959 | 1964 | Alfred Martin Escher | Paul Chaudet | Cabinet Adenauer III | |
| 1964 | 1969 | Max Troendle | Ludwig von Moos | Cabinet Erhard I | |
| 1969 | 1975 | Hans Lacher | Ludwig von Moos | Kiesinger cabinet | |
| 1975 | 1981 | Michael Gelzer | Pierre Graber | Cabinet Schmidt I | |
| 1981 | 1987 | Charles Muller | Based in Bonn. | Kurt Furgler | Schmidt III cabinet |
| 1987 | 1991 | Alfred Hohl | Otto Stich | Cabinet Kohl III |
Swiss Minister in the Federal Republic of Germany (branch office of the Embassy 1992–1999 in Berlin)
| Appointed / Accredited |
Leave post | Surname | Remarks | appointed by | Government in Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1999 | Paul Widmer | Flavio Cotti | Cabinet Kohl IV |
Swiss Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany (after German reunification in 1990)
| Appointed / Accredited |
Leave post | Surname | Remarks | appointed by | Government in Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 1999 | Dieter Eric Chenaux-Repond | Based in Bonn. | Flavio Cotti | Cabinet Kohl IV |
| 1999 | 2002 | Thomas Borer | Based in Berlin. | Ruth Dreifuss | Schröder I cabinet |
| 2003 | 2006 | Werner Baumann | Pascal Couchepin | Schröder II cabinet | |
| May 2006 | 2006 | Christian Blickenstorfer | Moritz Leuenberger | Merkel I cabinet | |
| May 2010 | May 2015 | Tim Guldimann | Doris Leuthard | Merkel II cabinet | |
| 27 Aug 2015 | May 2018 | Christine Schraner Burgener | Simonetta Sommaruga | Merkel III cabinet | |
| 28 Aug 2018 | Paul Seger | Alain Berset | Merkel IV cabinet |
See also
- List of Swiss ambassadors in the GDR
- Swiss Embassy in Berlin
- Embassy of Switzerland (Bonn)
- List of the German ambassadors in Switzerland
- Ambassadors of the GDR in Switzerland and Liechtenstein see the list of ambassadors of the GDR
literature
- Bernd Haunfelder (Ed.): From Adenauer's vicinity. The political correspondence of the Swiss Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany 1956–1963 . In the series Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland - Quaderni di Dodis , Volume 2. DDS, Bern 2012, u. a. P. 72 ISBN 978-3-906051-04-8 - PDF, ISBN 978-3-906051-05-5 - print, ISBN 978-3-906051-06-2 -epub, ISBN 978-3-906051-07 -9 - mobi, doi : 10.5907 / Q2 (PDF; 4.4 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ François de Diesbach: Delegate for the repatriation of Swiss citizens. Count Francois de Diesbach Torny, son of Count Hubert de Diesbach Torny. Hey d. July 23, 1949. Chef de la Délégation suisse pour le rapatriement à Berlin, Charlotte Mary Gandolfi-Hornyold, (* 1911-), married 1947
- ↑ a b c Bernd Haunfelder (Ed.): From Adenauer's vicinity. The political correspondence of the Swiss Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany 1956–1963 . DDS, Bern 2012, a. a. P. 72
- ↑ On the background, also mutual business . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1957, pp. 13-14 ( online ).
