List of ambassadors of Germany to France


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

Diplomatic missions

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. 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. Additionally, there are four consulates-general in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille and Strasbourg.
The Hôtel de Beauharnais in the 7th arrondissement of Paris serves as the official residence of the German Ambassador to France.

Ambassadors

Ambassadors of the [German Empire]

Ambassadors of the [Weimar Republic]

Ambassadors of [Nazi Germany]

Ambassadors of the German Democratic Republic">East Germany">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
  • 1976–1984: Werner Fleck
  • 1984–1990: Alfred Marter

Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany">Germany">Federal Republic of Germany

[West Germany]

Post-[German reunification]

Envoys from the [List of states in the [Holy Roman Empire|German States]] (before 1871)

Baden envoys

Bavarian envoys

Envoys from the Electorate of Bavaria

Envoys of the Kingdom of Bavaria

Hanseatic envoys

  • 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

Envoys from the Elector of Brandenburg">List of rulers of Brandenburg">Elector of Brandenburg

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

Ambassadors of the King of Prussia">List of monarchs of Prussia">King of Prussia

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''