List of German ambassadors in Belgium

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List of German ambassadors in Belgium .

Heads of mission

Law on the Establishment of a German Embassy in Brussels (1938)

Ambassador of the German Reich

German ambassador in Brussels
Surname image Term of office Remarks
Flag of the North German ConfederationFlag of the North German Confederation North German Confederation
Hermann Ludwig von Balan
(* 1812; † 1874) 		1868-1871
German EmpireThe German Imperium/ / German EmpireGerman EmpireGerman EmpireGerman Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era)
Hermann Ludwig von Balan 1871-1874
Wilhelm von Perponcher-Sedlnitzky 1874-1875
Gustav of Brandenburg 1876-1886
Friedrich Johann von Alvensleben 1886-1901 Envoy
Nikolaus von Wallwitz 1901-1909 Envoy
Hans von Flotow
(* 1862; † 1935) 		1910-1912 Envoy
Claus von Below-Saleske
(* 1866; † 1939) 		1912-1914 Envoy
Otto Landsberg
(* 1869; † 1957) 		WP Landsberg Otto.jpg 1920-1923
Friedrich von Keller
(* 1873; † 1960) 		Friedrich von Keller.jpg 1924-1928
Alfred Horstmann
(* 1879; † 1947) 		1928-1931
Hugo Graf von Lerchenfeld
(* 1871, † 1944) 		1931-1933
Raban Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden
(* 1877; † 1935) 		Raban Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden 255-8605.jpg 1934-1936
Herbert von Richthofen
(1879–1952) 		1936-1938
Vicco von Bülow-Schwante
(* 1891, † 1970) 		1938-1940
Werner von Bargen
(* 1898; † 1975) 		1940-1943

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

German ambassador in Brussels
Surname image Term of office Remarks
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany
Anton Pfeiffer
(* 1888; † 1957) 		1950-1954
Carl Friedrich Ophüls
(* 1895; † 1970) 		1955-1958
Kurt Oppler
(* 1902; † 1981) 		1959-1963
Herbert Siegfried
(* 1901; † 1988) 		1963-1966
Georg Federer
(* 1905; † 1984) 		1966-1968
Reinhold Renauld von Ungern-Sternberg
(* 1908; † 1991) 		1968-1973
Peter Limbourg
(* 1915; † 2015) 		1973-1980
Horst Blomeyer-Bartenstein
(* 1918; † 2007) 		1980-1983
Christian Feit
(* 1921; † 2017) 		1983-1986
Renate Finke-Osiander
(* 1926) 		1987-1988
Hans von Stein
(* 1928) 		1991-1993
Rolf Hofstetter
(* 1935) 		1996-2000
Peter von Butler
(* 1940; † 2014) 		2000-2004
Johann Christoph Jessen
(* 1946) 		2004-2007
Reinhard Bettzuege
(* 1946) 		2007-2011
Eckart Cuntz
(* 1950) 		2011-2015
Rüdiger Lüdeking
(* 1954) 		2015-2018
Martin Kotthaus
(* 1962) 		since 2018

Envoy from the German States (before 1871)

Bavarian envoy

Prussian envoy

1831: Establishment of diplomatic relations

Prussian envoy in Brussels
Surname image Term of office
Prussia KingdomKingdom of Prussia Prussia
Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim-Heinrichsdorff-Werbelow
(* 1791; † 1859) 		1831-1841
Alexander von Arnim-Suckow
(* 1789; † 1861) 		1841-1845
Rudolf von Sydow
(* 1805; † 1872) 		1845-1847
Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff
(* 1801; † 1858) 		1847-1852
Adolf von Brockhausen
(* 1801; † 1858) 		1852-1858
Heinrich Alexander von Redern
(* 1804; † 1888) 		1859-1863
Hermann Ludwig von Balan
(* 1812; † 1874) 		1864-1868

From 1867: Minister of the North German Confederation

Saxon envoy

See also

Web link

Website of the German Embassy in Brussels

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Law Gazette of the North German Confederation 1868, page 2 on Wikisource
  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 , Berlin 2001, p. 310 .
  3. ^ Emil Julius Hugo Steffenhagen:  Balan, Joseph Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 779.