Ambassador of Germany to the United Kingdom
Deutscher Botschafter im Vereinigten Königreich
Incumbent
Miguel Berger
since May 2022
ResidenceLondon
Inaugural holderAlbrecht von Bernstorff
Formation1871

Germany and the United Kingdom have had diplomatic relations since German unification in 1871.[1] Prior to that, the only German states holding diplomatic relations with the U.K. were the Kingdom of Prussia, since 1835, and the three Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, since 1853.

Envoys of the German states

Saxony

Envoys of the Electorate of Saxony
Envoys of the Kingdom of Saxony

Hanover

Holstein-Gottorp

Electorate of the Palatinate

Trier

Bavaria

Brandenburg-Prussia

Envoys Extraordinary of Prussia

Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
Count Wilhelm von Humboldt

Ambassadors of Germany

The first Ambassador from the German Empire, Albrecht von Bernstorff

North German Confederation (1867–1871)

German Reich (1871–1945)

German Empire (1871–1918)

  1. Albrecht von Bernstorff (1871–1873)
  2. Georg Herbert zu Münster (1873–1885)
  3. Paul von Hatzfeldt (1885–1901)
  4. Paul Wolff Metternich (1901–1912)
  5. Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein (1912)
  6. Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky (1912–1914)

diplomatic relations disrupted due to World War I

Weimar Republic (1919–1933)

The Weimar Republic Ambassador from 1920 to 1930, Friedrich Sthamer
  1. Friedrich Sthamer (1920–1930) (chargé d'affaires from 1919)
  2. Konstantin von Neurath (1930–1932)
  3. Leopold von Hoesch (1932–1933)

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)

  1. Leopold von Hoesch (1933–1936)
  2. Joachim von Ribbentrop (1936–1938)[5]
  3. Herbert von Dirksen (1938–1939)

diplomatic relations disrupted due to World War II

German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)

  1. Karl Heinz Kern (1971–1980)
  2. Martin Bierbach (1980–1984)
  3. Gerhard Lindner (1984–1989)
  4. Joachim Mitdank (1989–1990)
  5. Ulrike Birkner (1990; until 2 October)

Federal Republic of Germany (since 1949)

The German Ambassador from 1967 to 1970, Herbert Blankenhorn
The German Ambassador from 2020 to 2022, Andreas Michaelis
  1. Hans Schlange-Schöningen (1950–1955)
  2. Hans Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1955–1961)
  3. Hasso von Etzdorf (1961–1965)
  4. Herbert Blankenhorn (1965–1970)
  5. Karl-Günther von Hase (1970–1977)
  6. Hans Helmut Ruethe (1977–1980)
  7. Jürgen Ruhfus (1980–1983)
  8. Rüdiger von Wechmar (1985–1989)
  9. Hermann von Richthofen (1989–1993)
  10. Peter Hartmann (1993–1995)
  11. Jürgen Oesterhelt (1995–1997)
  12. Gebhardt von Moltke (1997–1999)
  13. Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz (1999–2002)
  14. Thomas Matussek (2002–2006)
  15. Wolfgang Ischinger (2006–2008)
  16. Georg Boomgaarden (2008–2014)
  17. Peter Ammon (2014–2018)
  18. Peter Wittig (2018–2020)
  19. Andreas Michaelis (2020–2022)
  20. Miguel Berger (since 2022)[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The London Diplomatic List" (PDF). 14 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-11.
  2. ^ K. G. Saur: Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005 (online)
  3. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Auswärtige Missionschefs in Deutschland und Deutsche Missionschefs im Ausland von Metternich bis Adenauer. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, S. 40.
  4. ^ a b German Wikipedia article: Liste der preußischen Gesandten im Vereinigten Königreich
  5. ^ TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (15 May 1937). "RIBBENTROP IS HOST TO 1,000 AT EMBASSY; German Envoy Reopens London Edifice--Duke and Duchess of Kent Among Guests". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  6. ^ Paul-Anton Krüger (30 March 2022), Ex-Regierungssprecher Steffen Seibert wird Botschafter in Israel Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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