List of German ambassadors in Turkey

This list of German ambassadors in Turkey contains the envoys and ambassadors of the German Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany in the Ottoman Empire (until 1918) and in Turkey (from 1924). The seat of the legation or embassy was originally Istanbul , since 1928 it has been in Ankara .

history

See also : German-Turkish relations

The following tables only list diplomats from the establishment of the German Empire (1871), with individual German countries sending diplomatic representatives to the Bosporus or to Asia Minor for a significantly longer period of time. Since the early 16th century, the Roman-German emperors maintained a permanent imperial embassy at the Sublime Porte ; other German states mostly had agencies or consulates , which were gradually declared to be accredited embassies , such as B. Saxony (from 1712), Prussia (from 1756) or the free Hanseatic cities (from 1841).

Due to the world wars, there were no diplomatic relations between 1918 and 1924 and between 1944 and 1952 . The official rank and title of the highest-ranking representative of Germany was from 1871 to 1895 and again from 1924 to 1933, " envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary " From 1895 to 1918 from 1933 to 1944 and since 1952 he was "extraordinary ambassador and plenipotentiary minister".

Ambassador of the German Empire in the Ottoman Empire

Surname	image	Term of office
Heinrich von Keyserlingk-Rautenburg		1869-1872
Robert von Keudell		1872-1873
Karl von Werther		1874-1877
Heinrich VII. Prince Reuss		1877-1878
Paul Count von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg		1878-1882
Joseph Maria von Radowitz		1882-1892
Prince Hugo Julius Eduard von Radolin		1892-1894
Anton Freiherr Saurma von der Jeltsch		1895-1897
Adolf Baron Marshal von Bieberstein		1897-1912
Baron Hans von Wangenheim		1912-1915
Paul Wolff Count Metternich		1915-1916
Richard von Kühlmann		1916-1917
Johann Heinrich Graf von Bernstorff		1917-1918
No diplomatic relations until 1924, protection power representation: Sweden

Ambassador of the German Reich in Turkey

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
Rudolf Nadolny		1924-1933	until 1928 in Istanbul
Frederic von Rosenberg		1933-1935
Friedrich von Keller		1935-1938
Franz von Papen		1939-1944

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Turkey

German Embassy in Ankara (2015)

Surname	image	Term of office
No diplomatic relations until 1952, protection power representation: Switzerland
Wilhelm Haas		1952-1956
Fritz Oellers		1956-1959
Georg von Broich-Oppert		1959-1962
Gebhardt von Walther		1962-1966
Horst Groepper		1966-1968
Rudolf Thierfelder		1968-1970
Gustav Adolf Sonnenhol		1971-1977
Ulrich Sahm		1977-1979
Dirk Oncken		1979-1984
Georg Negwer		1984-1988
Ekkehard Eickhoff		1988-1992
Jürgen Oesterhelt		1992-1995
Hans-Joachim Vergau		1995-2000
Rudolf Schmidt		2000-2003
Wolf-Ruthart Born		2003-2006
Eckart Cuntz		2006-2011
Eberhard Pohl		2011-2015
Martin Erdmann		2015-2020

See also

• Ambassador of the GDR in Turkey
• List of the Hanseatic envoys in the Ottoman Empire
• List of Prussian envoys in the Ottoman Empire
• German Embassy Ankara

Web links

• Website of the German diplomatic missions in Turkey

Individual evidence

1. ^ Judith Matzke: Legation and diplomatic service of Saxony 1694–1763 in: Writings on Saxon history and folklore . Vol. 36, Leipziger Universitätsverlag , Leipzig 2011
2. ↑ ^{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 , KG Saur Munich 2012