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s from

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 betwe ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

Diplomatic missions

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In 1874, the Embassy in Paris was one of only four Germany embassies alongside

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

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diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...

s 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 World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, as a gesture of solidarity between the two nations. Additionally, there are four consulates-general in

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

and

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

. The Hôtel de Beauharnais in the 7th arrondissement of

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

serves as the official residence of the German Ambassador to France.

Ambassadors

Ambassadors of the
German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

* 1871–1873:

Harry von Arnim Harry Karl Kurt Eduard, Count von Arnim-Suckow (3 October 1824 – 19 May 1881) was a German diplomat. Early life He was born at the Moitzelfitz estate in Pomerania, a son of Christian Ernst von Arnim zu Suckow and Friederike Auguste Elisabeth vo ...

* 1874–1885: Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst * 1885–1900: Georg Herbert Münster * 1900–1910:

Hugo von Radolin Hugo, Prince of Radolin (german: Hugo Fürst von Radolin; 1 April 1841 – 12 July 1917), born Hugo Julius Raoul Eduard Graf Leszczyc von Radolin-Radolinski, was a Polish-German aristocrat and statesman who served as an ambassador for the King ...

* 1910–1914:

Wilhelm von Schoen Wilhelm Eduard Freiherr von Schoen (Schön) (3 June 1851 – 24 April 1933) was a German diplomat. He was especially known as German ambassador in Paris at the beginning of World War I and as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German ...

Ambassadors of the
Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is al ...

*1920–1923: Wilhelm Mayer * 1924–1932:

Leopold von Hoesch Leopold von Hoesch (10 June 1881 – 10 April 1936) was a career German diplomat. Hoesch began his political career in France as the ''chargé d'affaires'' in 1923. After the recall of the German ambassador in 1923 after the Ruhr crisis, Hoesch ...

Ambassadors of
Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

*1933–1935: Roland Köster * 1936–1939:

Johannes von Welczeck Johannes Bernhard Graf von Welczeck (2 September 1878 – 11 October 1972) was a Nazi German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to France before World War II. Aristocrat Welczeck was born into an aristocratic family in Laband (mod ...

* 1940–1944:

Otto Abetz Heinrich Otto Abetz (26 March 1903 – 5 May 1958) was the German ambassador to Vichy France during the Second World War and a convicted war criminal. In July 1949 he was sentenced to twenty years' hard labour by a Paris military tribunal, he was ...

Ambassadors of the 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

Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F000897-0002, Herbert Blankenhorn

West Germany

* 1950–1955: Wilhelm Hausenstein * 1955–1958: Vollrath von Maltzan * 1963–1965: Herbert Blankenhorn * 1965–1968: Manfred Klaiber * 1968–1970:

Sigismund von Braun Sigismund Freiherr von Braun (14 April 1911 – 13 July 1998) was a German diplomat and Secretary of State in the Foreign Office (1970–1972). Biography Sigismund von Braun was born in Berlin- Zehlendorf in 1911, the eldest son of the East Pru ...

* 1970–1972: Hans Hellmuth Ruete * 1972–1976:

* 1976–1983: Axel Herbst * 1983–1987: Franz Jochen Schoeller * 1987–1991: Franz Pfeffer

Post-
German reunification German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...

* 1991–1995: Jürgen Sudhoff * 1995–1998:

Immo Stabreit Immo Stabreit (born 24 January 1933 Rathenow, Province of Brandenburg, Germany) is a German diplomat, and was West German and German Ambassador to South Africa from 1987 to 1992, Ambassador to the United States from 1992 to 1995 and Ambassador to F ...

* 1998–2000: Peter Hartmann * 2000–2004: Fritjof von Nordenskjöld * 2004–2007: Klaus Neubert * 2007–2008:

Peter Ammon Peter Ammon (born in Frankfurt/Main on 23 February 1952) is a German diplomat and was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Kingdom from May 2014 until 31 January 2018. Education and career Ammon studied Mathematics and ho ...

* 2008–2012: Reinhard Schäfers * 2012–2015: Susanne Wasum-Rainer * 2015–2020: Nikolaus Meyer-LandrutChristoph Scheuermann and Christoph Schult (April 18, 2018)
Außenpolitik: Maas wechselt deutsche Botschafter aus
'' Spiegel Online''. * 2020–date:

Hans-Dieter Lucas Hans-Dieter Lucas (born 11 October 1959) is a German diplomat. He is currently serving as List of ambassadors of Germany to France, Ambassador of Germany to France and Monaco. Education Lucas studied history, political science, law and Catholi ...

Envoys from the German States (before 1871)

Baden envoys

* 1791: ''Establishment of diplomatic relations'' * 1713–1734: Johann Rudolf Fäsch * 1761–1762: Ulrich von Thun * 1772–1781:

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ( or ; ; 14 December 1739 – 7 August 1817) was a French-American writer, economist, publisher and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families immigrated to the Uni ...

* 1781–1782: Giorgio di Santi * 1783–1789:

* 1789–1803: * 1803–1809:

Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg Emmerich Joseph Wolfgang Heribert de Dalberg, 1st Duke of Dalberg (31 May 1773 – 27 April 1833) was a German diplomat who was elevated to the French nobility in the Napoleonic era and who held senior government positions during the Bourbon R ...

* 1810–1831: Johann Baptist von Pfirdt * 1831–1843: Christian Friedrich Gerstlacher * 1843–1846: Franz Xaver von Andlaw-Birseck * 1846–1871: Ferdinand Allesina von Schweitzer

Bavarian envoys

Envoys from the Electorate of Bavaria

* 1666: ''Establishment of diplomatic relations'' * 1733–1736: Louis Joseph d’Albert de Luynes von Grimbergen * 1737–1741: Ignaz von Törring * 1741–1742: Louis Joseph d’Albert de Luynes von Grimbergen * 1742–1743: von Spon * 1743–1745: Joseph Piosasque de Non * 1745–1747: Louis Joseph d’Albert de Luynes von Grimbergen * 1747–1755: * 1755–1777: Maximilian von Eyck * 1778–1787: Karl Heinrich Joseph von Sickingen * 1787–1799: ''Vacant'' * 1799–1805: Anton von Cetto

Envoys of the Kingdom of Bavaria

* 1806–1813: Anton von Cetto * 1813-1817: ''No relations'' * 1817–1821: Wilibald von

Rechberg and Rothenlöwen Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was a county within the Holy Roman Empire. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was a renaming of Osterberg, and it inherited Osterberg in 1767. Rechberg and Rothenlöwen was mediatised to Württemberg in 1806. It was ruled by the ...

* 1821-1823: ''Vacant'' * 1823–1827: Franz Gabriel von Bray-Steinburg * 1827–1834: Christian Hubert von Pfeffel * 1835–1839: Franz Oliver von Jenison-Walworth * 1840–1846: Friedrich von Luxburg * 1846–1847:

Ludwig von Oettingen-Wallerstein Louis Kraft Ernest, Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein (''German'' Ludwig Kraft Ernst Karl Fürst zu Öttingen-Öttingen und Öttingen-Wallerstein) (31 January 1791 – 22 June 1870) was a Bavarian statesman and German Prince of the House of Oettinge ...

* 1847-1850: ''Vacant'' * 1850–1866: August von Wendland * 1866–1868: Maximilian Joseph Pergler von Perglas * 1868–1871: Friedrich von Quadt-Wykradt-Isny * 1871–1877: Gideon von Rudhart * 1877–1889: Johann von Reither * 1889–1896: Heinrich Tucher von Simmelsdorf * 1896–1903: Rudolph von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen * 1903–1903: Georg von und zu Guttenberg * 1903–1906: Karl Moy de Sons * 1906–1909: Friedrich von Ortenburg * 1909–1914: Lothar von Ritter zu Groenesteyn * 1914: ''End of diplomatic relations''

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 Vincent II, Count von Rumpff (10 January 1789 – 13 February 1867) was a German diplomat who served as Minister of the Hanseatic cities to the United States and Paris. Early life Count von Rumpff was born on 10 January 1789 in Hamburg, Germany, ...

* 1864–1870: Hermann von Heeren

Prussian envoys

Envoys from the Elector of Brandenburg

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

Ambassadors of the King of Prussia

* 1716–1717: Adam Otto von Viereck * 1717–1719: Friedrich Ernst zu Innhausen und Knyphausen * 1721–1751: Jean de Chambrier * 1751–1754: George Keith * 1754–1756: Dodo Heinrich zu Innhausen und Knyphausen * 1756–1763: ''None due to the Seven Years' War'' * 1768–1792: Wilhelm Bernhard von der Goltz * 1792: ''Break in relations due to French Revolutionary Wars'' * 1815–1822: Karl von der Goltz * 1824–1837: Heinrich von Werther * 1841–1845: Heinrich Friedrich von Arnim * 1846–1848:

Heinrich Alexander von Arnim Heinrich Alexander (from 1841 ''Freiherr'') von Arnim(-Suckow) (born 13 February 1798 in Berlin; died 5 January 1861 in Düsseldorf) was a Prussian statesman. Arnim received his education in the ''Pädagogium'' in Halle, then in 1814 joined the ...

* 1849–1859: Maximilian von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg * 1859–1861: Albert von Pourtalès * 1862–1862:

Otto von Bismarck Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (, ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of J ...

* 1862–1868: Robert Heinrich Ludwig von der Goltz

Ambassadors of the North German Confederation

* 1868–1869: Robert von der Goltz * 1869–1870: Karl von Werther

Saxon envoys

Envoys from the
Electorate of Saxony The Electorate of Saxony, also known as Electoral Saxony (German: or ), was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire from 1356–1806. It was centered around the cities of Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz. In the Golden Bull of 1356, Emperor Charles ...

* 1664: ''Establishment of diplomatic relations'' * 1709–1720: Burchard von Suhm * 1720–1729: Carl Heinrich von Hoym * 1729–1734:

Samuel de Brais Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transit ...

* 1735–1737: ''Vacant'' * 1737–1741:

* 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

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