List of the Hungarian ambassadors in Germany

The list of Hungarian ambassadors in Germany provides an overview of the heads of the Hungarian diplomatic mission in Germany. The ambassador resides in Berlin , from 1973 to 1999 in Bonn (→ Embassy of the Republic of Hungary (Bonn) ).

Heads of mission

Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the German Empire (1871-1919)

→ Main article : List of Austro-Hungarian ambassadors in Germany

Hungarian envoy in the German Empire (1919–1945)

After the end of the First World War, the Karoly government tried to build a Hungarian representation in Germany from former members of the diplomatic service of Austria-Hungary. On January 8, 1920, Paul Freiherr von Forster, the first "diplomatic agent" was notified to the German government. In September 1920, Gustav von Emich, the first ambassador, followed.

Term of office (accreditation to dismissal)	Surname	annotation
Accredited September 1920	Gustav von Emich	First Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Hungary in Berlin
October 27, 1925 to 1933	Koloman from Kánya	Hungarian Foreign Minister from 1933 to 1938
January 1934 to 1935	Constantine of Masirevich
December 1935 to March 22, 1944	Döme Sztójay	Afterwards Hungarian Prime Minister, executed in 1946

Hungarian ambassador to the GDR (1950–1990)

Term of office (accreditation to dismissal)	Surname	annotation
February 3, 1950 to December 1, 1953	József Hajdú
February 4, 1954 to January 16, 1957	Emánuel Safrankó
1957 to July 14, 1962	István Rostás
September 12, 1962 to June 14, 1967	József Kárpáti
September 15, 1967 to December 3, 1968	András Tömpe	Tömpe resigned in protest against the suppression of the Prague Spring back and committed in December 1971 in Budapest suicide .
December 12, 1968 to October 6, 1970	Lajos Nagy
December 1970 to August 9, 1974	Imre Kovács
September 11, 1974 to April 3, 1975	András Gyesnes
September 15, 1975 to June 7, 1978	Mátyás Szűrös
June 19, 1978 to July 9, 1980	József Kádár	died in office
September 29, 1980 to October 8, 1985	Béla Szalai
October 24, 1985 to December 21, 1988	István Roska
January 9, 1989 to July 1990	Ernõ Lakatos
July 19, 1990 to October 2, 1990	István Horváth	simultaneously in Bonn and East Berlin

Hungarian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany (1973–1990)

On December 20, 1973, diplomatic relations were established between Hungary and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Term of office (accreditation to dismissal)	Surname	annotation
January 21, 1974 to January 17, 1978	László hamburger
Accredited March 9, 1978	Péter Kővári
1979	Péter Kövári
1984 to 1991	István Horváth	Awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon for his services to the end of the division of Germany on March 16, 1990

Hungarian ambassador to reunified Germany (since 1990)

Term of office (accreditation to dismissal)	Surname	annotation
September 2, 1992 to 1996	Gábor Erödy
1996	Szabolcs Fazakas
1997 to 2000	Péter Balázs	2009/2010 Hungarian Foreign Minister
Summer 2000 to December 2002	Gergely Prőhle
December 4, 2002 to July 2010	Sándor Peisch
December 2010 to November 2015	József Czukor
since November 2015	Péter Györkös

See also

• List of German ambassadors in Hungary
• Ambassador of the GDR in Hungary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (-Hungary) 1720-1920 . Böhlau, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-205-07269-3 , p. 279.
2. ↑ Rudolf L. Tökés: Hungary's Negotiated Revolution . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-57850-7 , p. 52.
3. ↑ Gabor Erödy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Hungarian Embassies and other Diplomatic Missions (1945–1978) (Cold War History Research Center, Budapest)