List of German ambassadors in Australia

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The list of German ambassadors in Australia contains the ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany in Australia . The German embassy in Australia was in Sydney from 1952 to 1958 . Then she moved to Yarralumla , a district of Canberra . It also has jurisdiction over Nauru , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands and Vanuatu . Before 1952 there was temporarily a general consulate of the German Reich in Sydney, later in Melbourne . It was also responsible for Oceania .

Ambassador of the North German Confederation and the German Reich until 1914

Before 1879 Germany had only consolary relations with Australia.

Surname Term of office
Friedrich Richard Krauel 1879-1884
Gustav Thomas Travers 1885-1887
Alfred Leopold Robert Moritz Pelldram 1888-1896
Peter Franz Kempermann 1897-1900
Paul Friedrich Christian von Buri 1901-1906
Georg Irmer 1907-1911
Richard Paul Kiliani 1911-1914

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Surname Term of office
Walther Hess 1952-1958
Hans Mühlenfeld 1958–1962
Joachim Friedrich Ritter 1963-1968
Hans Schirmer 1968-1970
Heinz Voigt 1970-1974
Horst Blomeyer-Bartenstein 1975-1980
Wilhelm Fabricius 1980-1985
Hans Schauer 1985-1991
Franz Keil 1991-1994
Klaus Zeller 1994-1998
Horst Bächmann 1998-2002
Klaus-Peter Klaiber 2002-2005
Martin Lutz 2005-2008
Michael Witter 2008-2011
Christoph Müller 2011-2016
Anna Elisabeth Prince 2016-2019
Thomas Fitschen since 2019

See also

literature

  • Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , de Gruyter, 2001, p. 91

Web links

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 , de Gruyter, 2001, p. 148 (digitized version)
  2. ↑ 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, 2012, p. 148, https://books.google.de/books?id = pXWJpFbz1AoC & pg = PA148 & lpg = PA148
  3. ↑ Peter Klaiber in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)