List of ambassadors of Austria to Germany

The Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to Germany is the Republic of Austria's foremost diplomatic representative in Germany. As head of Austria's diplomatic mission there, the ambassador is the official representative of the president and government of Austria to the Cabinet of Germany. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and the embassy is located in Berlin.

History

In the last phase of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria sent an embassy to the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg. After the Confederation of the Rhine and the Congress of Vienna, this was followed by an embassy to the German Confederation, in which 35 sovereign princes and four free cities had joined forces.
From 1815 to 1866, Austria sent diplomatic representatives to the Federal Convention of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1871 to the Imperial Court of the German Empire in Berlin.
In addition, some of the Habsburg embassies founded in the 16th century in individual German states continued to exist until the 1920s.

Since the Austrian Empire was a member state of the German Confederation, it was not represented in the sense of a foreign state. Like the other members, Austria sent a representative to the Federal Convention. According to the Federal Act, the Austrian representative presided over the Federal Convention and conducted its affairs. Austria was therefore called the "Bundespräsidium". In practice, this was more of an honorary title.
In parallel to the representative in the Federal Convention, there was also temporarily an Austrian embassy to the Free City of Frankfurt.

Appointed / Accredited	Name	Title/notes	Appointed during	Accredited during	Left post
				German Confederation
				German Confederation
				German Confederation
				German Confederation
		Later Interior Minister of the Austrian Empire		German Confederation
		Later Finance Minister of the Austrian Empire		Provisional Central Power
				German Confederation
				German Confederation
				German Confederation
				German Confederation

Appointed / Accredited	Name	Title/notes	Appointed during	Accredited during	Left post
		Ambassador	Franz Joseph I	William I
		Ambassador	Franz Joseph I	William I
		Ambassador	Franz Joseph I	William I
		Ambassador	Franz Joseph I	William II
		Envoy		Council of the People's Deputies
		Envoy
		Envoy
		Chargé d'Affaires		Papen cabinet
				Hitler cabinet

Ambassador of the Second Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1950 in Bonn, since 1999 in Berlin.