List of German ambassadors in South Africa
The list of German ambassadors in South Africa contains all chargées of the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany in South Africa . An ambassador as chargé d'affaires was first sent in 1955, previously consuls general, ambassadors extraordinary or ministers plenipotentiary. The ambassador is also responsible for Eswatini (formerly Swaziland ) and Lesotho . The current headquarters of the embassy is in Pretoria . Before 1928 the seat of the Consulate General was Cape Town .
German Empire
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Ernst Bieber | 1885-1888 | |
| Ernst Heinrich von Treskow | 1889-1895 | |
| Bruno von Schuckmann | 1895-1899 | |
| Heinrich Johann Focke | 1899-1901 | |
| Friedrich von Lindequist | 1901-1905 | |
| Hans Paul von Humboldt-Dachroeden | 1905-1914 | |
| Alex Bernhard Tigges | 1928-1929 | |
| Paul Roh | 1929-1933 | Consul General 1st class |
| Friedrich Wilhelm von Keßler | 1931-1933 | Consul General, Chargé d'Affaires |
| Emil Wiehl | 1933-1937 | |
| Rudolf Leitner | 1937-1939 |
Federal Republic of Germany
| Surname | Term of office | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Rudolf Holzhausen | 1951-1954 | |
| Gustav Strohm | 1955-1957 | |
| Hans Ulrich Granow | 1958-1961 | |
| Karl Overbeck | 1961-1963 | |
| Werner Junker | 1963-1967 | |
| Gustav Adolf Sonnenhol | 1968-1971 | |
| Erich Strätling | 1971-1976 | |
| Hans-Joachim Eick | 1976-1980 | |
| Ekkehard Eickhoff | 1980-1983 | |
| Carl Lahusen | 1985-1986 | |
| Fritz Ziefer | 1987 | Counselor , Chargé d'affaires |
| Immo Stabreit | 1987-1992 | |
| Hans-Christian Ueberschaer | 1992-1995 | |
| Uwe Kaestner | 1995-1998 | |
| Harald Ganns | 1998-2001 | |
| Anna-Margareta Peters | 2001-2003 | |
| Harro Adt | 2004-2007 | |
| Dieter W. Haller | 2007-2011 | |
| Horst Friday | 2011-2015 | |
| Walter Johannes Lindner | 2015-2017 | |
| Martin Schäfer | from 2017 |
literature
- Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad , KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2001, p. 139 ISBN 9783598114311 (digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
Egypt | Algeria | Angola | Equatorial Guinea | Ethiopia | Benin | Botswana | Burkina Faso | Burundi | Djibouti | Ivory Coast | Eritrea | Gabon (including São Tomé and Príncipe) | Ghana | Guinea | Cameroon (including Central African Republic) | Kenya (incl. Seychelles and Somalia) | Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Congo, Republic of | Lesotho (embassy closed) | Liberia | Libya | Madagascar (including Comoros and Mauritius) | Malawi | Mali | Morocco | Mauritania | Mozambique | Namibia | Niger | Nigeria | Rwanda | Zambia | Senegal (including Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde) | Sierra Leone | Zimbabwe | Somalia (embassy closed) | South Africa (incl. Lesotho and Swaziland ) | Sudan | South Sudan | Tanzania | Togo | Chad | Tunisia | Uganda | Central African Republic (embassy closed)