List of German ambassadors in Hungary

List of German consuls general, envoys and ambassadors in Hungary .

Neighborhood of the German Embassy in Úri utca, Budapest

With the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, the German Empire took over the previously Prussian Consulate General in Budapest . With the state independence of Hungary after the First World War , the Consulate General was upgraded to a legation in 1921. For the diplomatic representatives of the German Reich in Hungary before 1921, see the list of German ambassadors in Austria-Hungary .

Heads of mission

Consule General

German Consule General in Budapest

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
/ German Empire
Ludwig von Wäcker-Gotter (* 1833; † 1908)		1869-1879	Consul General
Clemens Busch (* 1834; † 1895)		1879-1881	Consul General
Florian von Thielau (* 1839; † 1886)		1881-1883	Consul General
Maximilian Graf von Berchem (* 1841; † 1910)		1883-1885	Consul General
Viktor von Bojanowski (* 1831; † 1892)		1885-1888	Consul General
Ludwig von Plessen-Cronstern (* 1848, † 1929)		1888-1890	Consul General
Anton Graf von Monts (* 1852; † 1930)		1890-1894	Consul General
Max von Ratibor and Corvey (* 1856 - † 1924)		1894-1897	Consul General
Prince Hans of Hohenlohe-Oehringen (* 1858, † 1945)		1898-1899	Consul General
Paul von Below-Schlatau (* 1859; † 1925)		1899-1904	Consul General
Botho von Wedel (* 1862; † 1943)		1904-1907	Consul General
Hermann Prince of Schönburg-Waldenburg (* 1865, † 1943)		1907-1909	Consul General
Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (* 1869; † 1928)		1909-1912	Consul General
Egon Graf von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (* 1869, † 1925)		1912-1922	Consul General Envoy from October 9, 1921

Envoys and ambassadors

Seal of the German Legation

German envoys and ambassadors in Budapest

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
/ German Empire
Egon Graf von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (* 1869, † 1925)		1912-1922	Consul General Envoy from October 9, 1921
Viktor Prinz zu Wied (* 1877; † 1946)		1922-1923
Johannes von Welcek (* 1878; † 1972)		1923-1926
Hans von Schoen (* 1876; † 1969)		1926-1933
Hans Georg von Mackensen (* 1883; † 1947)		1933-1937
Otto von Erdmannsdorff (* 1888; † 1978)		1937-1941
Dietrich von Jagow (* 1892; † 1945)		1941-1944
Edmund Veesenmayer (* 1904; † 1977)		1944-1945	Plenipotentiary of the Greater German Reich
BR Germany
Hardo Brueckner		1964-1971	Head of commercial agency
Hermann Kersting (* 1915)		1974-1988
Johannes Balser		1978-1981
Norman Dencker		1981-1984
Ernst Friedrich Jung (* 1922; † 2016)		1984-1987
Hans Alfred Steger (* 1926; † 2009)		1987-1989
Alexander Arnot (* 1931)		1989-1993
Otto-Raban Heinichen (* 1932)		1993-1996
Hasso Buchrucker (* 1935)		1996-2000
Wilfried Gruber (* 1942)		2000-2003
Ursula Seiler-Albring (* 1943)		2003-2006
Hans-Peter Schiffer (* 1943)		2006-2008
Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel (* 1953)		2008-2011
Matei Hoffmann (* 1951)		2011-2014
Lieselore Cyrus (* 1951)		2014-2015
Heinz-Peter Behr (* 1955)		2015-2017
Volkmar Wenzel		2017-2020
Johannes Haindl		since 2020

See also

• Ambassador of the GDR in Hungary

Web link

Website of the German Embassy Budapest

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bulletin, p. 40
2. ↑ lib.hit-u.ac.jp
3. ^ Ambassador Wilfried Gruber ( Memento of April 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ The Ambassador - CV: Hans Peter Schiff ( Memento from August 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Website of the German Embassy in Budapest ( Memento from August 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )