List of British ambassadors in Germany

The list of British ambassadors to Germany provides an overview of the heads of British diplomatic missions in Germany since the early 18th century.

The official title of the UK's highest diplomatic representative in Germany is currently Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany .

Heads of mission

British ambassadors to the Holy Roman Empire

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British envoy to the German Confederation

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British ambassador to the German Empire

Sir Ronald Lindsay

• 1871–1884 Lord Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill (1829–1884)
• 1884–1895 Sir Edward Malet (1837–1908)
• 1895–1908 Sir Frank Lascelles (1841–1920)
• 1908–1914 Sir Edward Goschen (1847–1924)

1914 to 1919: break in relations

• 1919–1920 Sir Neill Malcolm (as "Chief of the Military Mission in Berlin")
• 1920–1920 Victor Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll (as "Chargé d'affaires")
• 1920–1926 Sir Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon (1857–1941)
• 1926–1928 Sir Ronald Lindsay (1877–1945)
• 1928–1933 Sir Horace Rumbold (1869–1941)
• 1933–1937 Sir Eric Phipps (1875–1945)
• 1937-1939 Sir Nevile Henderson (1882-1942)

1939: Break of relations on September 3rd

British Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

Sir Sebastian Wood

• 1955–1956 Sir Frederick Millar (1900–1989)
• 1956–1963 Sir Christopher Steel (1903–1973)
• 1963–1968 Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts (1907–1998)
• 1972–1975 Sir Nicholas Henderson (1919–2009)
• 1975–1981 Sir Oliver Wright (1922–2009)
• 1981–1984 Sir John Lang "Jock" Taylor (1924–2002)
• 1984–1988 Sir Julian Bullard (1928–2006)
• 1988–1993 Sir Christopher Mallaby (1936-)
• 1993–1997 Sir Nigel Broomfield (1937-)
• 1997–1997 Sir Christopher Meyer (1944-)
• 1997-2003 Sir Paul Lever (1944-)
• 2003-2007 Sir Peter Torry (1948-)
• 2007-2010 Sir Michael Anthony Arthur (1950-)
• 2010-2015 Sir Simon McDonald
• since 2015 Sir Sebastian Wood (1961-)

British ambassador to the GDR

• 1974–1976 Curtis Keeble (1922–2008)
• 1976–1978 Percy Cradock (1923–2010)
• 1978–1981 Peter Martin Foster (1924–2004)
• 1981–1984 Peter Maxey (1930–2014)
• 1984–1988 Timothy Everard (* 1929)
• 1988–1990 Nigel Broomfield (* 1937)
• 1990 Patrick Eyers (* 1933)

British Envoys in the German States (before 1871)

British ambassadors in Bavaria

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British ambassadors to the Hanseatic cities

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British ambassadors in Prussia

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British ambassadors in Saxony

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• Charles Hanbury Williams (1747-1750)

See also

• British Embassy in Berlin
• Embassy of the United Kingdom (Bonn)
• List of German ambassadors in the United Kingdom
• Ambassador of the GDR to the United Kingdom