Embassy of Germany in London

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The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Court of St. James's is Germany's diplomatic mission to the United Kingdom.

The embassy is currently located at 23 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PZ, in Belgravia. It occupies three of the original terraced houses in Belgrave Square and a late 20th century extension. The current ambassador is Wolfgang Ischinger.

History

The embassy used to be at 9 Carlton House Terrace in the so-called Prussia House, but after World War II the building was requisitioned as enemy property and no longer available, therefore the Federal Republic of Germany decided to move its diplomatic operations to Belgrave Square, first operating as a Consulate General.

The Consulate General became a fully functional embassy in June, 1951, the FRG leasing the building for 99 years in 1953.

In the 1970s, office space in the embassy was tight so an extension was erected at Chesham Place, inaugurated in 1978. It won the Westminster City Council prize for architecture. In 1990, after German reunification, the until-then East German embassy building at 34 Belgrave Square was taken over by the embassy.

Ambassadors of Prussia

• 1604 Hans von Bodeck (1582-1658)
• 1690-1698 Thomas Ernst von Danckelmann
• 1700 David Ancillon
• 1702-1710 Ezechiel von Spanheim
• 1742-1744 Karl Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
• 1758-1763 Dodo Heinrich zu Inn und Knyphausen
• 1789-1791 Philipp Carl von Alvensleben

Ambassadors of North German Confederation

• Heinrich von Bülow (1820s-1841)
• Cristian-Karl Josias Bunsen (1841-1854)]

Ambassadors of Saxony

• 1701-1703 Balthasar Heinrich von Nischwitz
• 1714-1718 Georg Sigismund Nostitz
• Karl Georg Friedrich von Flemming (1705-1767)

Ambassadors of Hannover

• 1702 Ernst August von Platen-Hallermund

Ambassadors of Holstein-Gottorp

• 1713-1714 Gerhard Nath (1666-1740)
• 1714-1719 Hermann von Petkum

Ambassadors of Palatinate

• 1715-1716 Franz Ludwig Viktor Effern

Ambassadors of Trier

• 1715 Hermann Beveren

Ambassadors of the German Empire (1871-1945)

• Albrecht Count of Bernstorff (1871-1873)
• Georg Herbert zu Münster (1873-1885)
• Count Paul von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg (1885-1901)
• Count Paul Wolff Metternich (1901-1912)
• Baron Adolf Von Marschall Von Bieberstein (1912)
• Karl Max, Fürst von Lichnowsky (1912-1914)

Ambassadors of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933)

1. Dr. Friedrich Stahmer (1920-1930) (chargé d'affaires from 1919)
2. Constantin Freiherr von Neurath (1930-1932)
3. Dr. Leopold Gustav Alexander von Hoesch (1932-1936)

Ambassadors of the Third Reich (1933-1945)

1. Joachim von Ribbentrop (1936-March 12, 1938)
2. Dr. Herbert von Dirksen (1938-1939)

diplomatic relations disrupted due to World War II

Ambassadors of the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989)

Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1950)

1. Dr. Hans Schlange-Schöningen (1950-1955)
2. Hans Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1955-1961)
3. Dr. Hasso von Etzdorf (1961-1965)
4. Herbert Blankenhorn (1965-1970)
5. Karl-Günther von Hase (1970-1977)
6. Dr. Hans Helmut Ruethe (1977-1980)
7. Dr. Jürgen Ruhfus (1980-1983)
8. Baron Rüdiger von Wechmar (1985-1989)
9. Baron Dr. Hermann von Richthofen (1989-1993)
10. Dr. Peter Hartmann (1993-1995)
11. Dr. Jürgen Oesterhelt (1995-1997)
12. Gebhard von Moltke (1997-1999)
13. Dr. Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz (1999-2002)
14. Dr. Thomas Matussek (2002-2006)
15. Wolfgang Ischinger (2006-)

External links

• German Embassy in London
• German Foreign Office

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