List of German ambassadors in Guatemala

The list of German ambassadors in Guatemala contains the highest-ranking representatives of the North German Confederation , the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany in Guatemala . The embassy is based in Guatemala City .

The heads of the German legation in Guatemala City had the following titles:

1876–1897 Prime Minister
1895–1941 ao envoy and bev. minister
from 1960 ambassador

With a state treaty between the German Empire and Guatemala, it was agreed on September 20, 1887 that citizens of the two states would be treated on an equal footing with residents when purchasing land on the territory of the other contracting party. This treaty expired on March 14, 1915 and was renewed on October 4, 1924 by a trade agreement between the German Reich and Guatemala.

North German Confederation / German Empire

Franz von Tattenbach (1932)

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Friedrich C. Augener	1868-1872	Consul of the North German Confederation, later of the German Empire
Werner von Bergen	1876-1897	Consul General
Albrecht von Voigts-Rhetz	1900-1901
Siegfried Friedrich Kasimir Hereditary Count of Castell-Rüdenhausen	1901-1903
Franz von Reichenau	1903-1907
Ulrich Graf von Schwerin	1907-1909
Hans Philipp Leopold Freiherr von und zu Bodman	1909-1910
Friedrich Karl von Erckert	1910-1923
Carl von Buch	1909-1914
Curt Lehmann	1914-1917
Franz von Tattenbach	1922-1924
Wilhelm von Kuhlmann	1924-1934
Erich Kraske	1934-1936
Otto Reinebeck	1937-1941
Christian Zinsser	1941
Franz Ferring	1941

Federal Republic of Germany

Surname	Term of office
Eugene Klee	1954-1956
Karl Heinrich Panhorst	1960-1964
Gerhard Roedel	1964-1966
Wilhelm Helmuth van Almsick	1966-1968
Karl Graf von Spreti	1969-1970
Wolfram Hucke	1972-1975
Gerhard Dohms	1977-1979
Henning Dodenberg	1992-1993
Walter Eickhoff	2002-2003
Claude Robert Ellner	2004-2007
Peter Linder	2007-2010
Thomas Schäfer	2010-2013
Matthias Sonn	2013-2016
Harald Klein	since 2016

Web links

Website of the German Embassy in Guatemala

Individual evidence

↑ RGBl. 1888, p. 238 ff. Friendship, trade, shipping and consular treaty between the German Empire and the Republic of Honduras on Wikisource
↑ RGBl 1915, p. 152
↑ RGBl. 1925 II, p. 155
↑ Appointment to German federal consuls. 31 October 1868 on Wikisource
↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963 . KG Saur, 2001, p. 147, 506 p.
^ Curt Lehmann: United States Dept. Of State, Declarations of War: Severances of Diplomatic Relations, 1914-1918
↑ Hans-Jörg Erb: Handbook of the Federal Government: 8th electoral period , register of persons Dohms published 1937: Moscow in Latin America , article in: Contra- Comintern . Fighting organ of the anti-Bolshevik world movement . Volume 1, Issue 5, August 1937. The sheet is a continuation of the magazine "Das Volk"; in 1939 it was renamed: Die Aktion. Fighting sheet against plutocracy and sedition.
↑ Walter Eickhoff dak.de (PDF)

[1] RGBl. 1888, p. 238 ff. Friendship, trade, shipping and consular treaty between the German Empire and the Republic of Honduras on Wikisource

[2] RGBl 1915, p. 152

[3] RGBl. 1925 II, p. 155

[4] Appointment to German federal consuls. 31 October 1868 on Wikisource

[5] Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963 . KG Saur, 2001, p. 147, 506 p.

[6] Curt Lehmann: United States Dept. Of State, Declarations of War: Severances of Diplomatic Relations, 1914-1918

[7] Hans-Jörg Erb: Handbook of the Federal Government: 8th electoral period , register of persons Dohms published 1937: Moscow in Latin America , article in: Contra- Comintern . Fighting organ of the anti-Bolshevik world movement . Volume 1, Issue 5, August 1937. The sheet is a continuation of the magazine "Das Volk"; in 1939 it was renamed: Die Aktion. Fighting sheet against plutocracy and sedition.

[8] Walter Eickhoff dak.de (PDF)