The United States has had diplomatic relations with the nation of

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and its principal predecessor nation, the

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, since 1835. These relations were broken twice (1917 to 1921, and 1941 to 1955) while Germany and the United States were at war and for a continuation interval afterwards. Prior to 1835, the United States and Prussia recognized one another but did not exchange representatives, except for a brief period when

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was accredited to the

Prussian court The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. Re ...

from 1797 to 1801. President Joe Biden nominated then University of Pennsylvania president and

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Amy Gutmann Amy Gutmann (born November 19, 1949) is an American academic and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Germany. She was the eighth List of presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, president of the University of Pennsylvania. In No ...

for the position on July 2, 2021; by a vote of 54-42, she was

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by the

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on February 8, 2022. She presented her credentials to the German President

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on February 17, 2022.

List of United States ambassadors to Germany

This is a list of the chief U.S. diplomatic agents to Prussia, Germany, and West Germany (the

Federal Republic of Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between ...

), their

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, and the effective start and end of their service in Germany.

Heads of the U.S. Legation at
Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
(1797–1801)

Heads of the U.S. Legation at Berlin (1835–1848)

Heads of the U.S. Legation at
Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
(1848–1849)

Heads of the U.S. Legation at Berlin (1849–1893)

Heads of the U.S. Embassy at Berlin (1893–1917)

Heads of the U.S. Embassy at Berlin (1921–1941)

Heads of the U.S. Embassy at
Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
(1955–1999)

Heads of the U.S. Embassy at Berlin (1999–present)

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on Germany
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External links

United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Germany

United States Department of State: Germany

United States Embassy in Berlin
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Lists of ambassadors to Germany