List of German ambassadors in the United Kingdom

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 ).

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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
North German Confederation
Albrecht von Bernstorff (* 1809; † 1873)		1868-1871	from 1854 Prussian envoy
/ / German Empire
Albrecht von Bernstorff (* 1809; † 1873)		1871-1873	Ambassador with the rank of Minister of State
Georg Herbert Graf zu Münster-Ledenburg (* 1820, † 1902)		1873-1885
Paul Graf von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg (* 1831; † 1901)		1885-1901
Paul Wolff Graf Metternich (* 1853; † 1934)		1901-1912
Adolf Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein (* 1842; † 1912)		1912
Karl Max Fürst von Lichnowsky (* 1860; † 1928)		1912-1914
Friedrich Sthamer (* 1856; † 1931)		1920-1930	from 1919 Chargé d'affaires
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (* 1873, † 1956)		1930-1932
Leopold von Hoesch (* 1881; † 1936)		1932-1936
Joachim von Ribbentrop (* 1893; † 1946)		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
BR Germany
Hans Schlange-Schöningen (* 1886; † 1960)		1950-1955
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld (* 1904; † 1999)		1955-1961
Hasso von Etzdorf (* 1900; † 1989)		1961-1965
Herbert Blankenhorn (* 1904; † 1991)		1965-1970
Karl-Günther von Hase (* 1917)		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)		2006-2008
Georg Boomgaarden (* 1948)		2008-2014
Peter Ammon (* 1952)		2014-2018
Peter Wittig (* 1954)		2018-2020
Andreas Michaelis (* 1959)		2020–

Envoy from German States (before 1871)

Baden ambassadors

• 1817–1832: Philipp von Langsdorff (1782–1866)

Bavarian envoy

→ Main article : List of Bavarian Envoys in the United Kingdom

Hanoverian ambassadors

Former Hanover Legation, 4 Hobart Place (2014)

• 1837–1840: Börries Wilhelm von Münchhausen (1794–1849)
• 1840–1866: Adolf von Kielmansegg (1796–1866)

Hanseatic envoy

→ Main article : List of Hanseatic envoys in the United Kingdom

Prussian envoy

→ Main article : List of Prussian envoys in the United Kingdom

Saxon envoy

→ Main article : List of Saxon envoys to the United Kingdom

Wuerttemberg envoy

• 1814–1816: Joseph Ignaz von Beroldingen (1780–1868)
• 1816–1821: August von Neuffer (1770–1822)
• 1821–1840: Karl August von Mandelsloh (1788–1852)

See also

• List of British ambassadors in Germany
• Ambassador of the GDR in Great Britain
• German Embassy London

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).