List of German ambassadors in Japan

The list of German ambassadors in Japan contains all envoys and ambassadors of the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany in Japan .

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Envoy from the German Reich

Start of term of office	Surname	image	Remarks
German Empire
March 30, 1873	Max August Scipio von Brandt
February 1875	Eduard Zappe
April 1875	Theodor von Holleben
December 3, 1875	Karl von Eisendecher
	Felix Freiherr von Gutschmid was Legation Secretary in Tokyo
April 24, 1883	Otto Graf von Dönhoff
March 11, 1886	Theodor von Holleben
December 10, 1892	Felix Freiherr von Gutschmid
March 3, 1897	Karl Georg von Treutler
March 29, 1898	Casimir Count of Leyden
May 23, 1900	Georg von Wedel
May 10, 1901	Emmerich from Arco-Valley
February 28, 1906	Friedrich Carl von Erckert
May 22, 1906	Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein

Ambassador of the German Reich

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
/ / German Empire
Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein		1909-1911
Arthur Alexander Kaspar from Rex		1911-1914
Wilhelm Solf		1920-1928
Wilhelm Albrecht von Schoen		1928
Ernst Arthur Voretzsch		1928-1933
Willy Noebel		1933
Herbert von Dirksen		1933-1938
Willy Noebel		1938
Eugene Ott		1938-1942
Heinrich Georg Stahmer		1943-1945	"Ambassador for special use"

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
BR Germany
Heinrich Northe		1952-1955	Counselor, Chargé d'Affaires a. i.
Hans Kroll		1955-1958
Wilhelm Haas		1958-1961
Fritz van Briessen		1961–1962
Herbert Dittmann		1962-1965
Walter Boss		1965-1966
Franz Krapf		1966-1971
Heinrich Carl Franz Röhreke		1971	Envoy I. Cl. Chargé d'Affaires
Wilhelm Grewe		1971-1976	1974 for the Mongolian People's Republic in charge
Hartmut Schulze-Boysen		1976-1977
Günter Diehl		1977-1981
Klaus Blech		1981-1984
Walter Boss		1984-1986
Hans-Joachim Hallier		1986-1989
Wilhelm Haas		1990-1994
Heinrich-Dietrich Dieckmann		1994-1997
Frank Elbe		1997-1999
Uwe Kaestner		1999-2001
Henrik Schmiegelow		2001-2006
Hans-Joachim Daerr		2006-2009
Volker Stanzel		2009-2013
Hans Carl Freiherr von Werthern		2014-2019
Ina Ruth Luise Lepel		since 2019

See also

• List of Japanese ambassadors in Germany
• List of ambassadors of the GDR
• German Embassy Tokyo

literature

• H. Schwalbe, H. Seemann: German Ambassador to Japan 1860–1973 . 1973

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich Northe in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
2. ↑ deutscheatlantischegesellschaft.de (PDF)
3. ↑ ip-global.org