List of ambassadors of Germany to Turkey

List of German ambassadors in Turkey contains the envoys and ambassadors of the German Empire and the Federal Republic of Germany in the Ottoman Empire (until 1918) and in Turkey (from 1924). The seat of the legation or embassy was originally Istanbul, but since 1928 it has been in Ankara.[1]

History

The following lists diplomats from the founding of the German Empire (1871), although individual German countries had been sending diplomatic representatives to the Bosporus or Asia Minor for significantly longer. Since the early 16th century, the Roman-German emperors maintained a permanent imperial embassy at the Sublime Porte; other German states mostly maintained agencies or consulates that were gradually declared to be accredited legations, such as: Saxony (from 1712), Prussia (from 1756) or the Free Hanseatic Cities (from 1841).

Due to World War I and World War II, there were no diplomatic relations between 1918 and 1924 and between 1944 and 1952. The official rank and title of Germany's highest-ranking representative was from 1871 to 1895 and from 1924 to 1933: "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary."

Ambassadors of the German Empire to the Ottoman Empire

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Heinrich von Keyserlingk-Rautenburg		1869	1872
Robert von Keudell		1872	1873
Karl von Werther		1874	1877
Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss		1877	1878
Paul von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg		1878	1882
Joseph Maria von Radowitz		1882	1892
Prince Hugo von Radolin		1892	1894
Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch		1895	1897
Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein		1897	1912	[2]
Hans von Wangenheim		1912	1915	[3]
Paul Wolff Metternich		1915	1916
Richard von Kühlmann		1916	1917
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff		1917	1918
No diplomatic relations until 1924, protecting power representation: Sweden

Ambassadors of the German Empire to Turkey

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Rudolf Nadolny		1924	1933	In Istanbul until 1928
Frederic von Rosenberg		1933	1935
Friedrich von Keller		1935	1938
Franz von Papen		1939	1944

Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany to Turkey

German Embassy in Ankara (2015)

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
No diplomatic relations until 1952, protecting power representation: Switzerland
Wilhelm Haas		1952	1956
Fritz Oellers		1956–1959
Georg von Broich-Oppert		1959	1962
Gebhardt von Walther		1962	1966
Horst Groepper		1966	1968
Rudolf Thierfelder		1968	1970
Gustav Adolf Sonnenhol		1971	1977
Ulrich Sahm		1977	1979
Dirk Oncken		1979	1984
Georg Negwer		1984	1988
Ekkehard Eickhoff		1988	1992
Jürgen Oesterhelt		1992	1995
Hans-Joachim Vergau		1995	2000
Rudolf Schmidt		2000	2003
Wolf-Ruthart Born		2003	2006
Eckart Cuntz		2006	2011
Eberhard Pohl		2011	2015
Martin Erdmann		2015	2020
Jürgen Schulz		2020	Present

List of Prussian envoys to the Ottoman Empire

1756: Establishment of diplomatic relations[4]

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Karl Adolf von Rexin		1756	1765
Ludwig Senfft von Pilsach		1806	1807	Not accredited
Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther		1810	1812
Michele Bosgiovich		1812	1815
Adam Friedrich Senfft von Pilsach		1815	1817
Friedrich Heinrich Leopold von Schladen		1817	1823
Alexander von Miltitz		1823	1828
Karl Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz		1828	1829
Camille von Royer-Lühnes		1828	1830
Friedrich von Martens		1831	1835
Hans Karl Albrecht von Königsmarck		1835	1842
Emil Gustav von Le Coq		1842	1847
Vacant		1847	1850
Albert von Pourtalès		1850	1852
Louis von Wildenbruch		1852	1857
Robert Heinrich Ludwig von der Goltz		1859	1862
Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade		1862	1869

From 1867: Ambassador of the North German Confederation, from 1871: Ambassador of the German Empire

See also

• List of ambassadors of Turkey to Germany
• German–Turkish Treaty of Friendship
• Germany–Turkey relations

References

1. "German representations in Turkey". tuerkei.diplo.de. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
2. "Adolf von Marschall von Bieberstein | German statesman". www.britannica.com. Britannica. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
3. Bouris, Christos. "Wangenheim, Hans von". encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
4. Bringmann, Tobias C. (14 February 2012). Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Auswärtige Missionschefs in Deutschland und deutsche Missionschefs im Ausland von Metternich bis Adenauer (in German). Walter de Gruyter. p. 320. ISBN 978-3-11-095684-9. Retrieved 25 January 2024.