List of German ambassadors in Mexico

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

North German Confederation / German Empire

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Anton Freiherr von Magnus	1866-1867	Prussian Prime Minister and Consul General in Mexico
Kurd von Schlözer	1869-1871	Prussian Minister-Resident in Mexico
Gustav Adolf von Enzenberg	1872-1875
Rudolf Friedrich Le Maistre	1875-1879
Ludwig von Wäcker-Gotter	1879-1888
Curt von Zedwitz	1888-1891
Egmont from Winckler	1892-1896
Clemens von Ketteler	1896-1899
Edmund Friedrich Gustav von Heyking	1899-1904
Hans von Wangenheim	1904-1908
Carl Gottlieb Bünz	1908-1911
Radolf von Kardorff	1911
Paul von Hintze	1911-1914
Heinrich von Eckardt	1914-1919
Adolf Maria Maximilian de Garnerin von Montgelas	1920-1924
Eugene Johann Will	1924-1933
Walter Zechlin	1933
Heinrich Rüdt von Collenberg	1933-1941
Relations are broken off on December 26, 1941

Fritz von Twardowski (1951)

Edmund Duckwitz (2007)

Surname	Term of office
Fritz von Twardowski	1952-1955
Gebhardt von Walther	1956-1958
Walther Hess	1959-1960
Richard Hertz	1960-1961
Kurt-Fritz von Graevenitz	1961-1963
Günter Seeliger	1963-1966
Carl August Zapp	1966-1969
Kurt von Tannstein	1969-1971
Hans Schwarzmann	1971-1975
Norman Dencker	1976-1981
Jürgen Sudhoff	1981-1982
Heinz Dittmann	1983-1987
Hans-Werner Count Finck von Finckenstein	1987-1990
Peter Dingens	1990-1994
Horst Palenberg	1994-1997
Werner Reichenbaum	1997-1999
Wolf-Ruthart Born	1999-2003
Eberhard Koelsch	2003-2005
Roland Michael Wegener	2006-2010
Edmund Duckwitz	2010-2014
Viktor Elbling	2014-2018
Peter Temple	since 2018

1838: Establishment of diplomatic relations

1838–1845: Friedrich von Gerolt (1797–1879)
1846–1850: Ferdinand Conrad Seiffart (1802–1877)
1851–1854: Emil von Richthofen (1810–1895)
1859–1865: Johann Emil von Wagner (1805–1888)
1865–1867: Anton Freiherr von Magnus (1821–1882)
1867–1868: vacant
1869–1871: Kurd von Schlözer (1822–1894)

From 1867: envoy of the North German Confederation, from 1871: envoy of the German Reich (see above)

↑ ^a ^b Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbook of diplomacy, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 124 f., 324 .