List of German ambassadors in Afghanistan

The list of German ambassadors in Afghanistan contains the ambassadors of the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany in Afghanistan . The embassy is based in Kabul .

International relations with Afghanistan began in 1919. No ambassador was sent to Afghanistan during the critical security situation from the mid-1980s to 2001. After the Afghanistan conference in 2001, a German liaison office was set up in Kabul, which was upgraded to an embassy again the following year. The German embassy was the first diplomatic representation of a state in Afghanistan since the end of the Taliban regime.

German Empire

Leopold Baron von Plessen

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Werner Otto von Hentig	1915-1916
Fritz Grobba	1923-1926
August Friedrich Feigel	1926-1929
Leopold Baron von Plessen	1929
Heribert Otto Paul Schwörbel	1931-1933
Kurt Max Paul Ziemke	1933-1936
Hans Pilger	1937-1945

Federal Republic of Germany

Walter Haßmann (2 from right)

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Franz Quiring	1954-1956
Erich Eiswaldt	1957-1959
Hans Schmidt-Horix	1959-1963
Gerhard Moltmann	1963-1969
Richard Breuer	1969-1973
Franz Josef Hoffmann	1973-1979
Karl-Heinrich Berninger	1979-1982
Interruption of diplomatic relations from 1982 (?) To 2001
Rainer Eberle	2001-2004	from 2002 as ambassador
Rainald Steck	2004-2006
Hans-Ulrich Seidt	2006-2008
Werner Hans Lauk	2008-2010
Rüdiger König	2010-2013
Martin Hunter	2013-2014
Markus Potzel	2014-2016
Walter Hassmann	2016-2018
Peter beating	2018-2020
Axel Zeidler	since 2020

See also

• Ambassador of the GDR in Afghanistan

Web links

• Website of the German Embassy in Kabul

Individual evidence

1. ^ Relations between Afghanistan and Germany. Federal Foreign Office, July 1, 2010, accessed on March 22, 2011 . 
2. ^ Karl-Heinrich Berninger books.google.de
3. ↑ khartum.diplo.de ( Memento from September 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Report in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT 09/24/2018 S1
5. ↑ Report in the Federal Gazette: BAnz AT 07.08.2020 S1