List of German ambassadors in Thailand

The list of German ambassadors in Thailand contains the highest-ranking diplomatic representatives of the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany in Thailand . The embassy is based in Bangkok .

There were consular representations in Bangkok as early as 1888. The diplomatic mission has since 1888-1908 by resident minister, from 1908 to 1956 by extraordinary envoy and plénipotentiaire Ministre and passed through Ambassador since 1956th From 1957 to 1975 he was accredited in Vientiane , Laos .

German Empire

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Peter Franz Kempermann	1888-1897
Wilhelm Rudolf von Seldeneck	1897-1899
Conrad Adam Leopold von Saldern	1899-1903
Georg Coates	1903-1906	from 1904 on leave to take over the legation in Adis Abbeba .
Adolf of Prollius	1906-1910
Konrad von der Goltz	1910-1913
Paul of Buri	1913-1917
No representation from 1917 to 1925. Protective power Netherlands
Rudolf Asmis	1925-1931
Erich August Karl North	1933-1935
Wilhelm Thomas	1936-1941
Ernst Wendler	1943-1945

Federal Republic of Germany

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Gottfried Kaumann	1952-1954
Horst Boehling	1955-1959
Hans Bidder	1960–1962
Hans-Ulrich von Schweinitz	1962-1967
Hans-Ulrich Scheske	1967-1971
Ulrich von Rhamm	1971-1974
Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli	1975-1979
Walter Boss	1979-1981
Johann Christian Lankes	1982-1985
Helmut Rückriegel	1985-1988
Bernd Oldenkott	1988-1990
Berthold von Pfetten-Arnbach	1990-1995
Hans-Dieter Siemes	1995-1998
Hermann Erath	1998-2001
Andreas von Stechow	2001-2005
Christoph Brümmer	2005-2008
Hanns Heinrich Schumacher	2008-2011
Rolf Peter Gottfried Schulze	2011-2015
Peter beating	2015-2018
Georg Schmidt	since 11/2018

See also

• Ambassador of the GDR in Thailand

Web links

• Website of the German Embassy Bangkok

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Tobias C. Bringmann, Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Berlin 2001, p. 79.
2. ↑ Volker Grabowsky shed light on Thai-German history at a conference on Thai history at the Humboldt University under the ambassadors Dr. Rudolf Asmis (1925–1932), Erich Nord (1933–1935), Dr. Wilhelm Thomas (1936–1941) and Dr. Ernst Wendler (1943–1945). See: Hans Michael Hensel: How Thais and Germans see each other (1) , thailandtip.info July 12, 2012.