List of German ambassadors in Russia

This is a list of the German ambassadors to Russia and the Soviet Union . The German embassy was located in Saint Petersburg until 1917 and in Moscow since 1918 .

ambassador

German ambassador to the Russian Empire

German Ambassador to the Russian Empire (until 1917)

Former German Embassy in Saint Petersburg (center)

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
North German Confederation
1868: Establishment of diplomatic relations
Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss		1868-1871	in Saint Petersburg
/ German Empire
Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss		1871-1876	in Saint Petersburg
Hans Lothar von Schweinitz		1876-1892	in Saint Petersburg
Bernhard von Werder		1892-1895	in Saint Petersburg
Hugo Prince of Radolin		1895-1901	in Saint Petersburg
Friedrich Johann von Alvensleben		1901-1905
Wilhelm von Schoen		1905-1907	in Saint Petersburg
Friedrich Pourtalès		1907-1914	in Saint Petersburg
1914: Relationship is broken off as a result of the First World War

German ambassador to the Soviet Union

German Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1918 to 1991)

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
/ German Empire
Wilhelm von Mirbach-Harff		1918	Term of office: April 2 - July 6; murdered
vacant		1918-1921
1921: Resumption of diplomatic relations after the Treaty of Rapallo
Kurt Wiedenfeld		1921-1922
Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau		1922-1928
Herbert von Dirksen		1928-1933
Rudolf Nadolny		1933-1934	Resigned from office in May 1934 at his own request.
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg		1934-1941
1941: Break of relations on June 22nd, attack on the Soviet Union during World War II
BR Germany
1956: Resumption of diplomatic relations on March 12th
Wilhelm Haas		1956-1958
Hans Kroll		1958–1962
Horst Groepper		1962-1966
Gebhardt von Walther		1966-1968
Helmut Allardt		1968-1972
Ulrich Sahm		1972-1977
Hans-Georg Wieck		1977-1980
Andreas Meyer-Landrut		1980-1983
Hansjörg Kastl		1983-1987
Andreas Meyer-Landrut		1987-1989
Klaus Blech		1989-1993

German ambassador to the Russian Federation

German Ambassador to the Russian Federation (since 1991)

German Embassy Moscow (2008)

Surname	image	Term of office
BR Germany
Otto von der Gablentz		1993-1995
Ernst-Jörg von Studnitz		1995-2002
Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz		2002-2005
Walter Jürgen Schmid		2005-2010
Ulrich Brandenburg		2010-2013
Rüdiger Freiherr von Fritsch		2014-2019
Géza Andreas von Geyr		since 2019

Envoy from German States (before 1871)

Baden ambassadors

• 1783–1800: Friedrich Albrecht von Koch (1740–1800), charge d'affaires

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• 1818–1819: Friedrich von Blittersdorf (1792–1861)

1819–1850: Break in relations

• 1850–1871: Konstantin von Fehleisen (1804–1870)

Bavarian envoy

The Bavarian Legation existed due to Bavaria's reservation rights until diplomatic relations were broken off in 1914.

→ Main article : List of Bavarian envoys in Russia

Hanoverian ambassadors

• 1808–1818: vacant
• 1818–1850: Wilhelm von Dörnberg (1768–1850)
• 1851–1857: vacant
• 1857–1865: Georg Herbert zu Münster (1820–1902)
• 1865–1866: Victor von Alten (1817–1891)

Hanseatic envoy

→ Main article : List of Hanseatic envoys in Russia

Prussian envoy

→ Main article : List of Prussian envoys to Russia

Saxon envoy

→ Main article : List of Saxon envoys in Russia

Wuerttemberg envoy

→ Main article : List of the Württemberg envoys in Russia

See also

• List of Russian ambassadors in Germany
• List of diplomatic missions in Russia
• Ambassador of the GDR to the Soviet Union
• German Embassy Moscow

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 , Berlin 2001, p. 127-128, 150 .

Web links

• www.moskau.diplo.de German Embassy Moscow