List of German ambassadors in the United States

This is a list of all ambassadors and highest-ranking representatives of the North German Confederation (1866–1871), the German Empire (1871–1945) and the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1951) in the United States .

ambassador

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
Envoy and authorized ministers of the North German Confederation
Friedrich von Gerolt (* 1797; † 1879)		1868-1871
Envoy and plenipotentiary ministers of the German Reich
Kurd von Schlözer (* 1822; † 1894)		1871-1882
Karl von Eisendecher (* 1841; † 1934)		1882-1884
Friedrich Johann Graf von Alvensleben (* 1836, † 1913)		1884-1888
Ludwig Aloys von Arco on Valley (1845-1891)		1888-1891
Theodor von Holleben (1838–1913)		1891-1893
Clemens von Ketteler (1853–1900)		1892-1896
/ / Ambassador of the German Empire
Anton Freiherr Saurma von der Jeltsch (1836–1900)		1893-1895
Max Franz Guido Freiherr von Thielmann (1846–1929)		1895-1897
Theodor von Holleben (1838–1913)		1897-1903
Hermann Speck von Sternburg (1852–1908)		1903-1908
Johann Heinrich Graf von Bernstorff (1862–1939)		1908-1917
First World War
Karl Lang (* 1871)		1921-1922	Chargé d'affaires
Otto Wiedfeldt (* 1871; † 1926)		1922-1925
Adolf Georg von Maltzan (* 1877; † 1927)		1925-1927
Friedrich-Wilhelm von Prittwitz and Gaffron (* 1884, † 1955)		1928-1933
Hans Luther (* 1879; † 1962)		1933-1937
Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (* 1884; † 1952)		1937-1938	recalled on November 18, 1938 because of the recall of the US ambassador on November 15, 1938 due to the events of the Reichspogromnacht
Hans Thomsen (* 1891; † 1968)		1938-1941	from November 1938 to December 11, 1941, Chargé d'affaires
Federal Republic of Germany
Heinz Ludwig Hermann Krekeler (* 1906; † 2003)		1950-1958
Wilhelm Grewe (* 1911; † 2000)		1958–1962
Karl Heinrich Knappstein (* 1906; † 1989)		1962-1968
Rolf Friedemann Pauls (* 1915; † 2002)		1968-1973
Berndt von Staden (* 1919; † 2014)		1973-1979
Peter Hermes (* 1922; † 2015)		1979-1984
Günther van Well (* 1922; † 1993)		1984-1987
Jürgen Ruhfus (* 1930; † 2018)		1987-1992
Immo Stabreit (* 1933)		1992-1995
Jürgen Chrobog (* 1940)		1995-2001
Wolfgang Ischinger (* 1946)		2001-2006
Klaus Scharioth (* 1946)		2006-2011
Peter Ammon (* 1952)		2011-2014
Peter Wittig (* 1954)		2014-2018
Emily Haber (* 1956)		2018–

Envoy from German States (before 1871)

Hanseatic envoy

→ Main article : List of Hanseatic envoys in the United States

Prussian envoy

→ Main article : List of Prussian envoys to the United States

See also

• German Embassy Washington, DC
• List of permanent representatives of Germany to the United Nations in New York

Individual evidence

1. ↑ zeno.org
2. ↑ Report in nytimes.com (with costs)