List of German ambassadors in Spain

List of German ambassadors in Spain .

Heads of mission

Ambassador of the German Reich

The building of the German Embassy in Madrid (around 1930) on the Paseo de la Castellana

Surname	Term of office	Remarks
Flag of the North German Confederation North German Confederation
Julius von Canitz and Dallwitz (* 1815; † 1894)	1867-1871	from 1867: Prussian envoy
German Empire/ / - German Empire
Julius von Canitz and Dallwitz (* 1815; † 1894)	1871-1874
Paul von Hatzfeldt (* 1831; † 1901)	1874-1878	Envoy
Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde (* 1825; † 1912)	1878-1887	Envoy
Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm (* 1843, † 1925)	1887-1892	Envoy
Joseph Maria von Radowitz (* 1839; † 1912)	1892-1908
Christian von Tattenbach (* 1846; † 1910)	1908-1910
Max von Ratibor and Corvey (* 1856 - † 1924)	1910-1918
vacant	1918-1920
Leopold von Hoesch (* 1881; † 1936)	1920	Chargé d'affaires from January to October 1920
Ernst Langwerth von Simmern (* 1865, † 1942)	1920-1925
Johannes Graf von Welczeck (* 1878, † 1972)	1926-1936
April to July 1936 vacant Eberhard von Stohrer received his letter of accreditation as ambassador on July 24, 1936 , but did not hand it in to the government of the Spanish Republic because the German Reich did not want to commit itself diplomatically towards the putsch.
Hans Hermann Völckers (* 1886; † 1977)	1936	Chargé d'Affaires of the German Empire to the Republic of Spain
Wilhelm Faupel (* 1873; † 1945)	1936-1937	First Consul General of the German Reich with Francisco Franco in Salamanca
Eberhard von Stohrer (* 1883, † 1953)	1937-1942
Hans-Adolf von Moltke (* 1884; † 1943)	1943
Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (* 1884; † 1952)	1943-1944
Sigismund von Bibra (* 1894; † 1973)	1944-1945	from September 2, 1944 chargé d'affaires
1945 to 1952: no relationships

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

The new building of the German embassy built in 1967, architect: Alexander von Branca

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
Germany Federal Republic BR Germany
Adalbert of Bavaria (* 1886; † 1970)		1952-1956
Karl Heinrich Knappstein (* 1906; † 1989)		1956-1958
Wolfgang von Welck (* 1901; † 1973)		1958-1963
Helmut Allardt (* 1907; † 1987)		1963-1968
Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg (* 1912; † 1982)		1968-1974
Georg von Lilienfeld (* 1912; † 1989)		1974-1977
Lothar Lahn (* 1921; † 1994)		1977-1982
Guido Brunner (* 1930; † 1997)		1982-1992
Hermann Huber (* 1930; † 2018)		1992-1995
Henning Wegener (* 1936)		1995-1999
Joachim Bitterlich (* 1948)		1999-2002
Georg Boomgaarden (* 1948)		2003-2005
Wolf-Ruthart Born (* 1944)		2006-2009
Reinhard Silberberg (* 1953)		2009-2014
Peter Tempel (* 1955)		2014-2018
Wolfgang Dold (* 1958)		since 2018

Envoy from the German States (before 1871)

Hanoverian ambassadors

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1863–1866: Adolf von Grote (1830–1898)

Hanseatic envoy

1649: Establishment of diplomatic relations

Prussian envoy

1782: Establishment of diplomatic relations

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1810–1821: Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther (1772–1859)
1821–1823: Daniel Andreas Berthold von Schepeler (1779–1849)
1823–1824: Bogislaw von Maltzan (1793–1833)
1824–1825: Peter Heinrich August von Salviati (1786–1856)
1825–1835: August von Liebermann (1791–1847)
1835–1848: Break in relations
1848–1852: Atanazy Raczyński (1788–1874)
1853–1864: Ferdinand von Galen (1803–1881)
1864–1867: Georg von Werthern (1816–1895)
1867–1874: Julius von Canitz and Dallwitz (1815–1894)

From 1867: envoy of the North German Confederation, from 1871: ambassador of the German Reich (see above)

Saxon envoy

1739: Establishment of diplomatic relations

1739–1761: Johann Joseph Hyazinth von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1692–1766)
1761-1763: k. A.
1763–1766: Johann Joseph Hyazinth von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1692–1766)
1766–1773: Friedrich Magnus von Saul (–1773)

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1788–1789: Sigismund Ehrenreich Johann von Redern (1761–1841)

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1811–1819: vacant
1819–1820: Carl von Friesen (1786–1823)
1820–1824: Friedrich Bernhard Biedermann (1775–1844)
1824–1828: Hans Heinrich von Könneritz (1790–1863)
1828–1852: Break in relations
1852–1853: Oswald von Fabrice (1820–1898)
1853–1856: Adolph Keil (1823–1890)
1856–1870: vacant

1870: Dissolution of the legation

Individual evidence

^ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 121 f .
↑ Federal Law Gazette of the North German Federation 1868 , page 322 on Wikisource
↑ March 1926 to April 1936
↑ July to November. Also Counselor Karl C. Schwendemann , Detective Inspector Paul Winzer
↑ La defensa de Madrid , Hans Völkers
↑ November 28, 1936 to February 12, 1937. Ambassador to Salamanca February 12, 1937 to August 18, 1937. The Ibero-American Institute awarded him the title of Ambassador, and his letters are filed in the Foreign Office's files in the non-diplomats department.
↑ 23 September 1937 - 16 December 1942. Cf. Erich W. Gardemann: Guest at Juanito . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1963 ( online ). Navy attaché Gerhard Wagner
↑ January 11, 1943 to March 22, 1943
↑ March 30, 1943 to September 2, 1944. August 1943 to May 1945 Military attaché: Hans Doerr
↑ 1958–1964 Military Attaché: Achim Oster
^ Judith Matzke: Legation and diplomatic service of Saxony 1694-1763 , Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 2007, p. 344
^ Studied in Leipzig (from 1737), legation secretary in Turin in 1747, in Paris in 1754, counselor in 1757, resident in Spain from 1761 to 1773

[1] Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 121 f .

[2] Federal Law Gazette of the North German Federation 1868 , page 322 on Wikisource

[3] March 1926 to April 1936

[4] July to November. Also Counselor Karl C. Schwendemann , Detective Inspector Paul Winzer

[insigna-5] La defensa de Madrid , Hans Völkers

[6] November 28, 1936 to February 12, 1937. Ambassador to Salamanca February 12, 1937 to August 18, 1937. The Ibero-American Institute awarded him the title of Ambassador, and his letters are filed in the Foreign Office's files in the non-diplomats department.

[7] 23 September 1937 - 16 December 1942. Cf. Erich W. Gardemann: Guest at Juanito . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1963 ( online ). Navy attaché Gerhard Wagner

[8] January 11, 1943 to March 22, 1943

[9] March 30, 1943 to September 2, 1944. August 1943 to May 1945 Military attaché: Hans Doerr

[10] 1958–1964 Military Attaché: Achim Oster

[11] Judith Matzke: Legation and diplomatic service of Saxony 1694-1763 , Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 2007, p. 344

[12] Studied in Leipzig (from 1737), legation secretary in Turin in 1747, in Paris in 1754, counselor in 1757, resident in Spain from 1761 to 1773