List of ambassadors of France to Germany

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This list of ambassadors of France to Germany and precursors of the modern German state also includes top-ranking French diplomats in Germany who did not formally have the ambassador title.

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Ambassadors to the Holy Roman Empire

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The former French Legation to the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg

Ambassadors to the German Confederation

Ambassadors to the German Confederation, also accredited to the Free City of Frankfurt, include:

For partial lists, see footnote [2] and. [3]

Ambassadors to German states

France established permanent diplomatic missions to individual German states during the Thirty Years War or shortly thereafter, most notably Bavaria, Cologne, Prussia, Saxony and the free Hanseatic cities at Hamburg, all of which date from a time around the 1620s to 1640s. [4]

Electoral Standard of Bavaria (1623-1806).svg  Bavaria : French envoys to the Bavarian Court at Munich

Black St George's Cross.svg  Cologne : French envoys to the Cologne Court at Bonn

Flag of Hamburg.svg  Hamburg : French envoys to Lübeck, Bremen and Hamburg

Flag of Prussia (1892-1918).svg  Prussia : French envoys to the Brandenburg-Prussian Court at Berlin

Flagge Konigreich Sachsen (1815-1918).svg  Saxony : French envoys to the Saxon Court at Dresden

At the time of the German Confederation additional missions were opened in Baden, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau and Württemberg. [2] [3] After disestablishment of the German Confederation and establishment of the North-German Confederation, France's mission at Berlin became France's principal mission to Germany.

Ambassadors to the German Empire and Germany (1871–1939)

Ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet with German field marshal Erhard Milch Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2005-0103-511, Berlin, Andre Francois-Poncet, Erhard Milch.jpg
Ambassador André François-Poncet with German field marshal Erhard Milch

For main sources for this section, see footnote [5] and. [6]

Start of termEnd of termAmbassador
18721877Elie de Gontaut-Biron [7]
18771881Raymond de Saint-Vallier
18811886 Alphonse Chodron de Courcel
18861896Jules Gabriel Herbette
18961902 Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles
19021907Georges Paul Louis Bihourd
19071914 Jules Cambon
19141920Break in diplomatic relations during World War I and its aftermath
June 1920December 1922 Charles François Laurent [8]
19221931Pierre de Margerie
19311938 André François-Poncet
19381939 Robert Coulondre

Ambassadors to West Germany

For main sources for this section, see footnote [9] and. [10]

Diplomatic relations between France and Germany were cut following the invasion of Poland in 1939. France restored diplomatic relations with West Germany in 1949 and with East Germany in 1973.

Start of termEnd of termAmbassador
19491955 André François-Poncet (Allied High Commissioner from 1949 to 1955 and ambassador after August 1, 1955)
19551956 Louis Joxe
19561958 Maurice Couve de Murville
19581962 François Seydoux de Clausonne
19621965 Roland de Margerie
19651970 François Seydoux de Clausonne
19701974 Jean Sauvagnargues
19741977 Olivier Wormser
19771981 Jean-Pierre Brunet
19811983 Henri Froment-Meurice
19831986 Jacques Morizet
19861992 Serge Boidevaix (German reunification occurred in 1990)

Ambassadors to East Germany

For the main source for this section, see footnote [9] and. [10]

Diplomatic relations between France and Germany were cut following the invasion of Poland in 1939. France restored diplomatic relations with West Germany in 1949 and with East Germany in 1973.

Start of termEnd of termAmbassador (or diplomat of highest rank)
19731974 Jacques Jessel (Chargé d'Affaires)
19741976 Bernard Guillier de Chalvron
19761981 Henry Bayle
19811981 Xavier du Cauzé de Nazelle [11]
19811986 Maurice Deshors [12]
19861990
(German reunification)
Joëlle Timsit

Ambassadors to post-reunification Germany

For main sources for this section, see footnote [9] and. [10]

Start of termEnd of termAmbassador
19861992 Serge Boidevaix (German reunification occurred in 1990)
19921993 Bertrand Dufourcq
19931999 François Scheer
19992007 Claude Martin
20072011 Bernard de Montferrand
20112014 Maurice Gourdault-Montagne
20142017 Philippe Étienne
20172022 Anne-Marie Descôtes
2022 François Delattre [13]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 Count Guillaume de Garden (1861). Répertoire diplomatique: annales du droit des gens et de la politique extérieure (in French). J. Claye. pp.  45–46 (2nd volume).
  3. 1 2 Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France) (1887). "X: Ambassadeurs, envoyés extraordinaires, etc de France à l'étranger de 1815 à 1855". Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République Française (in French). Vol. 9. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale. p. 321.
  4. Le Bas, Philippe (1844). France. Dictionnaire encyclopédique (in French). Paris: Firmin Didot frères.
  5. Aballéa, Marion (2012). "Entre soumission politico-administrative et goût de l'initiative individuelle: les diplomates français en poste à Berlin de 1871 aux années 1930". L'Europe, nouvelles approches (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. pp. 9–28. ISBN   9782296966864 . Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  6. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France). "La France en Allemagne. Hier - un peu d'histoire" (in French). French Embassy in Berlin. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  7. Resigned in December 1877.
  8. 1 2 3 "Liste chronologique des représentants permanents de la France avec rang d'ambassadeur auprès de commissions, organisations et conférences internationales" (PDF) (in French). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France). p. 37. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  9. 1 2 3 Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France). "Ambassadeurs en Allemagne depuis 1955" (in French). French Embassy in Berlin . Retrieved 20 January 2013. Also available in German Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Décret du 5 janvier 1981" (in French). Journal officiel de la République française. 7 January 1981. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  11. "Décret du 9 septembre 1981" (in French). Journal officiel de la République française. 11 September 1981. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  12. Philippe Ricard (31 July 2022), Le chassé-croisé des ambassadeurs renouvelle la direction du ministère des affaires étrangères Le Monde .