List of German ambassadors in Finland

The list of German ambassadors in Finland contains the highest-ranking representatives of the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany in Finland . The embassy is based in Helsinki .

German Empire

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
August Lothar Brück	1918-1920	Prime Minister
Erich Wallroth	1920-1921	Chargé d'affaires
Otto Goeppert	1921-1922	Envoy
Julius Graf von Zech-Burkersroda	1922-1925
Herbert Hauschild	1925-1929
Martin Renner	1929-1932
Hans Büsing	1932-1935
Wipert from Blücher	1935-1944

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Reinhold Friedrich Koenning	1953-1956	Consul General
Karl Kuno Overbeck	1956-1961	Consul General
Heinrich Böx	1961-1964	Consul General
Günther Kempff	1965-1969	Consul General
Detlev Scheel	1969-1974	Consul general; from 1973 ambassador
Klaus Simon	1974-1979
Fritz C. Menne	1979-1984
Klaus Terfloth	1984-1989
Hans Peter Bazing	1989-1995
Berthold von Pfetten-Arnbach	1995-1999
Henning von Wistinghausen	1999-2001
Cornelius Summer	2001-2003
Hanns Heinrich Schumacher	2003-2007
Wilfried Grolig	2007-2010
Peter Scholz	2010-2011
Thomas Götz	2011-2014
Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel	2014-2017
Detlef Lingemann	2017-2020
Konrad Arz von Straussenburg	since 2020