List of ambassadors of Germany to France

Ambassador of Germany to France
Deutscher Botschafter in Frankreich
since 2020
StyleAmbassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary
ResidenceParis
Inaugural holderHarry von Arnim
Formation1871

This is an incomplete list of ambassadors from Germany to France.

Diplomatic missions

Initiation of the West German Embassy at the Hôtel Beauharnais in Paris, 1968
The German Embassy in Paris
The German Consulate-General in Lyon

In 1874, the Embassy in Paris was one of only four Germany embassies alongside London, Saint Petersburg, and Vienna, Today, of 226 diplomatic missions abroad, Germany has five diplomatic and consular missions in France. The German Embassy is in Paris.[1] In 1961, France returned the Hôtel de Beauharnais, the former German embassy in Paris which had been expropriated by France at the end of World War II, as a gesture of solidarity between the two nations.[2] Additionally, there are four consulates-general in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille and Strasbourg.[3][4]

The Hôtel de Beauharnais in the 7th arrondissement of Paris serves as the official residence of the German Ambassador to France.[5]

Ambassadors

Ambassadors of the German Empire

Ambassadors of the Weimar Republic

Ambassadors of Nazi Germany

Ambassadors of the German Democratic Republic

  • 1956–1962: Herbert Merkel
  • 1962–1962: Herbert Schulze
  • 1963–1967: Willi Diebenkorn
  • 1967–1973: Gerhard Schramm
  • 1973–1974: Gerhard Schramm
  • 1974–1976: Ernst Scholz[15]
  • 1976–1984: Werner Fleck
  • 1984–1990: Alfred Marter

Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany

Herbert Blankenhorn

West Germany

Post-German reunification

Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, Ambassador from 2015 to 2020.

Envoys from the German States (before 1871)

Baden envoys

Further information: Baden

Bavarian envoys

Envoys from the Electorate of Bavaria

Further information: Electorate of Bavaria

Envoys of the Kingdom of Bavaria

Ludwig, Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein
Further information: Kingdom of Bavaria
  • 1806–1813: Anton von Cetto
  • 1813-1817: No relations
  • 1817–1821: Wilibald von Rechberg and Rothenlöwen
  • 1821-1823: Vacant
  • 1823–1827: Franz Gabriel von Bray-Steinburg
  • 1827–1834: Christian Hubert von Pfeffel
  • 1835–1839: Franz Oliver von Jenison-Walworth
  • 1840–1846: Friedrich von Luxburg
  • 1846–1847: Ludwig von Oettingen-Wallerstein
  • 1847-1850: Vacant
  • 1850–1866: August von Wendland
  • 1866–1868: Maximilian Joseph Pergler von Perglas
  • 1868–1871: Friedrich von Quadt-Wykradt-Isny
  • 1871–1877: Gideon von Rudhart
  • 1877–1889: Johann von Reither
  • 1889–1896: Heinrich Tucher von Simmelsdorf
  • 1896–1903: Rudolph von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen
  • 1903–1903: Georg von und zu Guttenberg
  • 1903–1906: Karl Moy de Sons
  • 1906–1909: Friedrich von Ortenburg
  • 1909–1914: Lothar von Ritter zu Groenesteyn
  • 1914: End of diplomatic relations

Hanseatic envoys

Further information: Hanseatic League
  • 1689–1717: Christophle Brosseau
  • 1717–1727: Jacques de Cagny
  • 1727–1729: Antoine Poille
  • 1730–1776: Luc Courchetet d’Esnans
  • 1776–1785: Louis d’Hugie
  • 1785–1786: Jean Diodati
  • 1786–1793: Michel-Alexis Fauvet de La Flotte
  • 1795–1803: Friedrich Joachim Schlüter
  • 1803–1810: Konrad Christoph Abel
  • 1810–1814: No relations while the Hanseatic cities belonged to the Holy Roman Empire.
  • 1814–1823: Konrad Christoph Abel
  • 1824–1864: Vincent Rumpff
  • 1864–1870: Hermann von Heeren

Prussian envoys

Abraham de Wicquefort

Envoys from the Elector of Brandenburg

  • 1648: Establishment of diplomatic relations
  • 1626–1649: Abraham de Wicquefort
  • 1658: Christoph von Brandt

Ambassadors of the King of Prussia

George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal
Albert von Pourtalès

Ambassadors of the North German Confederation

Saxon envoys

Envoys from the Electorate of Saxony

  • 1664: Establishment of diplomatic relations
  • 1709–1720: Burchard von Suhm
  • 1720–1729: Carl Heinrich von Hoym
  • 1729–1734: Samuel de Brais
  • 1735–1737: Vacant
  • 1737–1741: Samuel de Brais
  • 1741–1753: Johann Adolph von Loß
  • 1753–1754: Samuel Gottfried Spinnhirn
  • 1754–1755: Claude Marie Noyel Bellegarde d'Entremont
  • 1755–1757: Ludwig Siegfried Vitzthum von Eckstädt
  • 1757–1768: Kaspar Franz von Fontenay
  • 1768–1770:
  • 1770–1772: Johann Georg Heinrich von Werthern

Envoys from the Kingdom of Saxony

  • 1815–1827: Carl Emil von Üchtritz
  • 1827–1828: Georg Rudolf von Gersdorff
  • 1828–1849: Hans Heinrich von Könneritz
  • 1850–1852: Karl Adolf von Hohenthal-Knauthain
  • 1853–1870: Albin Leo von Seebach
  • 1870–1871: Vacant

Württemberg envoys

  • 1650: Establishment of diplomatic relations
  • 1814–1815: Ferdinand Ludwig von Zeppelin
  • 1815–1817: R. von Schwarz
  • 1817–1820: Peter von Gallatin
  • 1821–1838: Bernhard von Mülinen
  • 1838–1849: Christian Wilhelm August von Fleischmann
  • 1849–1850: Vacant
  • 1850–1871: August von Wächter
  • 1871: Dissolution of legation

See also

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