The list of German ambassadors in South Africa contains all charge d'affaires of the German Empire and the Federal Republic of Germany in South Africa.

An envoy, as chargé d'affaires, was sent for the first time in 1955, previously Consuls general, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The ambassador also has jurisdiction over Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and Lesotho. The current headquarters of the embassy is in Pretoria.^[1] Before 1928, the headquarters of the Consulate General was Cape Town.

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Ernst Bieber		1885	1888
Ernst Heinrich von Treskow		1889	1895
Bruno von Schuckmann		1895	1899
Heinrich Johann Focke		1899	1901
Friedrich von Lindequist		1901	1905
Hans Paul von Humboldt-Dachroeden		1905	1914
Alex Bernhard Tigges		1928	1929
Paul Roh		1929	1933	Consul General 1st Class
Friedrich Wilhelm von Keßler		1931	1933	Consul General, Chargé d’Affaires[2]
Emil Wiehl		1933	1937	[3]
Rudolf Leitner		1937	1939

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Rudolf Holzhausen		1951	1954	1951: Consul General; 1952: Envoy; 1954: Ambassador
Gustav Strohm		1955	1957
Hans Ulrich Granow		1958	1961
Karl Overbeck		1961	1963
Werner Junker		1963	1967
Gustav Adolf Sonnenhol		1968	1971
Erich Strätling		1971	1976
Hans-Joachim Eick		1976	1980
Ekkehard Eickhoff		1980	1983
Carl Lahusen		1985	1986
Fritz Ziefer		1987	1987	Counselor, Chargé d'Affaires
Immo Stabreit		1987	1992
Hans-Christian Ueberschaer		1992	1995
Uwe Kaestner		1995	1998
Harald Ganns		1998	2000
Anna-Margareta Peters		2000	2003
Harro Adt		2004	2007
Dieter W. Haller		2007	2011
Horst Freitag		2011	2015
Walter Johannes Lindner		2015	2017
Martin Schäfer		2017	2021
Andreas Peschke		2021	Present	[4][5]

• Germany–South Africa relations