List of German ambassadors in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of the German ambassadors in the United Kingdom .

In Great Britain, the ambassadors bear the English title Ambassador to the Court of St James’s (Ambassador to the Court of St James’s ).

ambassador

Ambassador of the German Reich

Former German Embassy at 9 Carlton House Terrace on the Mall in the London borough of St James's, now the seat of the Royal Society .
Surname image Term of office Remarks
Flag of the North German ConfederationFlag of the North German Confederation North German Confederation
Albrecht von Bernstorff
(* 1809; † 1873)
BERNSTORFFA crop.jpg 1868-1871 from 1854 Prussian envoy
German EmpireThe German Imperium/ German Empire/ German EmpireGerman Empire
Albrecht von Bernstorff
(* 1809; † 1873)
BERNSTORFFA crop.jpg 1871-1873 Ambassador with the rank of Minister of State
Georg Herbert Graf zu Münster-Ledenburg
(* 1820, † 1902)
La collection Félix Potin Nadar Paris Georges-Henri De Munster Comte de Munster né à Londres en 1820 picture side.jpg 1873-1885
Paul Graf von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg
(* 1831; † 1901)
Paul Graf Hatzfeld-Wildenburg (1831-1901) .jpg 1885-1901
Paul Wolff Graf Metternich
(* 1853; † 1934)
Paul Metternich.jpg 1901-1912
Adolf Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein
(* 1842; † 1912)
Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein.jpg 1912
Karl Max Fürst von Lichnowsky
(* 1860; † 1928)
FürstLichnowsky.JPG 1912-1914
Friedrich Sthamer
(* 1856; † 1931)
Gustav Friedrich Sthamer 1905.jpg 1920-1930 from 1919 Chargé d'affaires
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath
(* 1873, † 1956)
Federal Archives N 1310 Bild-133, Konstantin von Neurath.jpg 1930-1932
Leopold von Hoesch
(* 1881; † 1936)
Leopold von Hoesch thumb.jpg 1932-1936
Joachim von Ribbentrop
(* 1893; † 1946)
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H04810, Joachim von Ribbentrop.jpg 1936-1938
Herbert von Dirksen
(* 1882; † 1955)
1938-1939
Second World War / No representation 1939-1950

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Today's residence of the German Embassy (center) on Belgrave Square in the London district of Belgravia
Surname image Term of office Remarks
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany
Hans Schlange-Schöningen
(* 1886; † 1960)
SchlangeHans.jpg 1950-1955
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld
(* 1904; † 1999)
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld thumb.jpg 1955-1961
Hasso von Etzdorf
(* 1900; † 1989)
Hasso von Etzdorf thumb.jpg 1961-1965
Herbert Blankenhorn
(* 1904; † 1991)
Federal Archives B 145 Bild-F000897-0002, Herbert Blankenhorn.jpg 1965-1970
Karl-Günther von Hase
(* 1917)
Karl-Günther von Hase thumb.jpg 1970-1977
Hans Helmuth Ruete
(* 1914; † 1987)
1977-1980
Jürgen Ruhfus
(* 1930; † 2018)
1980-1983
Rüdiger Freiherr von Wechmar
(* 1923; † 2007)
1983-1988
Hermann Freiherr von Richthofen
(* 1933)
1988-1993
Peter Hartmann
(* 1935)
1993-1995
Jürgen Oesterhelt
(* 1935)
1995-1997
Gebhardt von Moltke
(* 1938; † 2019)
1997-1999
Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz
(* 1940)
1999-2002
Thomas Matussek
(* 1947)
2002-2006
Wolfgang Ischinger
(* 1946)
Msc2011 dett ischinger 0073 01.jpg 2006-2008
Georg Boomgaarden
(* 1948)
2008-2014
Peter Ammon
(* 1952)
Peter Ammon.jpg 2014-2018
Peter Wittig
(* 1954)
Discussion event "Germany's role in the United Nations - a balance sheet" in Cologne City Hall-5463.jpg 2018-2020
Andreas Michaelis

(* 1959)

Future Affairs Berlin 2019 - "Digital Revolution Resetting Global Power Politics?" (47959237091) (cropped) .jpg
2020–

Envoy from German States (before 1871)

Baden ambassadors

Bavarian envoy

Hanoverian ambassadors

Former Hanover Legation, 4 Hobart Place (2014)

Hanseatic envoy

Prussian envoy

Saxon envoy

Wuerttemberg envoy

See also

Individual evidence

  1. 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.
  2. ^ Federal Law Gazette of the North German Federation 1868, page 7 on Wikisource
  3. German Embassy London Retweeted . January 31, 2018.
  4. a b Report on changes in several embassies , spiegel.de, April 18, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2018
  5. Change in the Foreign Office. In: authorities mirror. May 5, 2020, accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).