List of Canadian ambassadors in Germany

List of Canadian ambassadors in Germany .

history

Canadian Embassy at Leipziger Platz in Berlin

Villa Lindenallee 70 in Cologne, until the mid-1960s the official seat of the Canadian ambassador

The first representative of the Province of Ontario , John Dyke, Dominion Immigration Agent in Liverpool , was sent to Hamburg in 1873 to recruit emigrants. The authorities of the German Reich imprisoned Dyke for six months one month after his arrival. An ordinance on the prohibition of unauthorized emigration and induction to do so from the time of the German Confederation served as the legal basis for arrest . The offense was described in the ordinances as high treason of the fourth degree and was punished not with death, but with a loss of liberty for two to eight years. John Dyke recognized the wide scope for interpretation of these ordinances and advised against sending a representative to the German Reich. He subsequently recruited in Lemberg , which was part of the Habsburg Empire at the time of the third partition of Poland .

The address of the Canadian embassy in Germany was Friedrich-Wilhelm Strasse 18 in Bonn from 1969 until the move to Berlin in 1999 . Today's Canadian Embassy in Berlin has been located at Leipziger Platz  17 since April 29, 2005 .

Heads of mission

Diplomatic agents in the German Reich

Appointment accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited by the government	Leave post
1873	John Dyke	Representative for the Province of Ontario	Oliver Mowat	Wilhelm I.	1873
1922	Leolyn Dana Wilgress	Canadian Trade Commissioner in Hamburg	William Lyon Mackenzie King	Joseph Wirth	1932

Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

Appointment accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited by the government	Leave post
Dec 15, 1949	Maurice Arthur Pope		Louis Saint-Laurent	Konrad Adenauer
Dec. 27, 1950	Thomas Clayton Davis		Louis Saint-Laurent	Konrad Adenauer
1954	Charles Ritchie		Louis Saint-Laurent	Konrad Adenauer	1958
Nov 22, 1957	Escott Reid		John Diefenbaker	Konrad Adenauer	1962
1962	John Kennett Starnes		John Diefenbaker	Konrad Adenauer	1966
1966	Richard Plant Bower		Lester Pearson	Ludwig Erhard	1970
1970	Gordon Gale Crean		Pierre Trudeau	Willy Brandt	1975
1975	John Gelder Horler Halstead		Pierre Trudeau	Helmut Schmidt	1980
1980	Klaus Goldschlag		Pierre Trudeau	Helmut Schmidt	1983
1983	Donald Sutherland McPhail		Pierre Trudeau	Helmut Kohl	1987
1988	William Thomas Delworth		Brian Mulroney	Helmut Kohl	1992
1992	Paul Heinbecker		Brian Mulroney	Helmut Kohl
June 3, 1996	Gaëtan Lavertu		Jean Chrétien	Helmut Kohl
June 26, 2000	Marie Bernard-Meunier		Jean Chrétien	Gerhard Schröder
May 19, 2004	Paul Dubois		Paul Martin	Gerhard Schröder
July 10, 2008	Peter Michael Boehm		Stephen Harper	Angela Merkel	2012
Aug 30, 2013	Marie Gervais-Vidricaire		John Baird	Angela Merkel	Jan. 2017
Feb 2017	Stéphane Dion		Justin Trudeau	Angela Merkel

Web links

• Appointment of Marie Gervais-Vidricaire as Ambassador of Canada accessed on 24 August 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jonathan Wagner: History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939
2. ↑ Michael Ewanchuk: Reflections and reminiscences: Ukrainians in Canada . 1892-1992, 1995, 169 pp.
3. ^ Journals of the House of Commons of Canada , Volume 41, 1906, p. 281. Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Queen's Printer, Textarchiv - Internet Archive