List of German ambassadors in India

From the start of international relations in 1951, the ambassador to India was also responsible for Nepal . The Ambassador in New Delhi is still responsible for Bhutan .

See also : List of German ambassadors in Bhutan

Between 1868 and 1886 only consular relations existed. In 1886 a consulate general was established. The seat of the consulate general was Calcutta until 1939.

German consuls general in India

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
/ / German Empire
Hermann Gerlich	1886-1889	Consul General in Calcutta
Edmund Friedrich Gustav von Heyking	1889-1893	Consul General in Calcutta
Günther von Gaertner-Griebenow	1893-1895	Consul General in Calcutta
Julius von Waldthausen	1895-1900	Consul General in Calcutta
Hermann Speck von Sternburg	1900-1903	Consul General in Calcutta
Albert von Quadt zu Wykradt and Isny	1904-1910	Consul General in Calcutta
Prince Heinrich XXXI. (later: Prince von Hohenleuben)	1910-1912	Consul General in Calcutta
Charles of Luxburg	1912-1914	Consul General in Calcutta
1914–1922 no consular relations
Heinrich Rüdt von Collenberg -Bödigheim	1922-1929	Consul General in Calcutta
Rudolf von Bassewitz	1929-1932	Consul General in Calcutta
Werner von Ow-Wachendorf	1933-1936	Consul General in Calcutta
Erdmann von Podewils-Dürnitz	1936-1939	Consul General in Calcutta
September 3, 1939 Break of relations

From 1952, the embassy was located in New Delhi.

German ambassador to India

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
BR Germany
Ernst Wilhelm Meyer	1952-1957
Wilhelm Melchers	1957-1961	since 1958 for Nepal responsible
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz	1961-1965	to 1963 for Nepal responsible
Dietrich von Mirbach	1965-1970
Günter Diehl	1970-1977
Dirk Oncken	1977-1979
Rolf Ramisch	1980-1984
Günther Gerlach	1984-1985
Günther Schödel	1984 / 85-1987
Konrad Seitz	1987-1990
Hans-Georg Wieck	1990-1993
Frank Elbe	1993-1997
Heinrich-Dietrich Dieckmann	1997-2000
Heimo Richter	2000-2005
Bernd Mützelburg	2006-2008
Thomas Matussek	2009-2011
Cord Meier-Klodt	August 2011 to July 2012	Chargé d'affaires
Michael Steiner	July 2012 to June 30, 2015
Martin Ney	2015-2019
Walter Johannes Lindner	since 2019

See also

• Ambassador of the GDR in India
• German Embassy New Delhi

Web link

Website of the German Embassy New Delhi

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} 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 Verlag, 2012, ISBN 3-598-11431-1 , p. 107-108, 129 .
2. ↑ CV. Ambassador a. D. Heinrich-Dietrich Dieckmann. In: Events. Colloquium Humanum e. V., May 18, 2011, accessed March 20, 2015 . 
3. ↑ The New India. ( Memento from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) German Society for Foreign Policy e. V.
4. ↑ Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in India. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 13, 2015 ; accessed on July 13, 2015 .