List of ambassadors of Germany to Italy

This is an incomplete list of ambassadors from Germany to Italy.

History

The below lists contain the highest-ranking representatives of the North German Confederation (1866–1871), the German Empire (1871–1945) and the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1951) in the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) and the Italian Republic (since 1946). The capital of Italy and the official headquarters of the German embassy were Turin (1861–1865), Florence (1865–1870) and Rome (since 1870). The German ambassador in Rome has also been accredited for the Republic of San Marino since 1995. ^[1]

Ambassadors

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
North German Confederation
Guido von Usedom		1868	1869 [2]
Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade		1869	1872 [3] [4]
/ / German Empire
Robert von Keudell		1873	1887
Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde		1887	1893
Bernhard von Bülow		1893	1897
Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch		1897	1899 [5]
Karl von Wedel		1899	1902
Anton von Monts de Mazin		1903	1909
Gottlieb von Jagow		1909	1913
Hans von Flotow		1913	1915
John von Berenberg-Gossler		1920	1921
Konstantin von Neurath		1921	1930
Karl von Schubert		1930	1932
Ulrich von Hassell		1932	1938
Hans Georg von Mackensen		1938	1943
Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck		August 1942	August 1943 [6]	chargé d'affaires
Rudolf Rahn		1943	1945	General representative in Salò
Federal Republic of Germany
Clemens von Brentano		1951	1957
Manfred Klaiber		1957	1963
Herbert Blankenhorn		1963	1965
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld		1965	1969
Rolf Lahr		1969	1973
Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg		1974	1977
Hans Arnold		1977	1981
Rüdiger von Wechmar		1981	1983
Lothar Lahn		1983	1986
Friedrich Ruth		1986	1992
Konrad Seitz		1992	1994
Dieter Kastrup		1994	1998
Fritjof von Nordenskjöld		1998	2000
Klaus Neubert		2001	2004
Michael H. Gerdts		2004	2007
Michael Steiner		2007	2010
Michael H. Gerdts		2010	2012
Reinhard Schäfers		2012	2015	[7]
Susanne Wasum-Rainer		2015	2018
Viktor Elbling		2018	2023
Hans-Dieter Lucas		2023	Present

Envoys from the German States (before 1871)

See also: States of the German Confederation

Bavarian envoys

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
1865: Establishment of diplomatic relations
Ferdinand von Hompesch-Bollheim		1865	1868
Ludwig von Paumgarten-Frauenstein		1868	1870
Wilhelm von Dönniges		1870	1872
Alfred Ludwig von Bibra		1872	1880
Rudolf von Tautphoeus		1880	1885
Karl Moy de Sons		1886	1887
Clemens von Podewils-Dürniz		1887	1896
Heinrich Tucher von Simmelsdorf		1896	1903
Rudolf von und zu Tann-Rathsamhausen		1903	1915
1915: Breaking off diplomatic relations
1919: Dissolution of the embassy

Prussian envoys

Envoy to Savoy-Piedmont (until 1720)

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
16??: Establishment of diplomatic relations
Gottfried von Jena		c. 1665
François de Langes		c. 1703

Envoy to Sardinia-Piedmont (1720–1862)

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Johann Friedrich von Cocceji		c. 1759
Friedrich von Waldburg-Truchsess		1816	1827
Friedrich von Martens		1827	1829
Bogislaw von Maltzahn		1829	1830	Resident in Vienna
August Schoultz von Ascheraden		1830	1832	[8]
Friedrich Ludwig III von Truchsess zu Waldburg		1832	1844
Heinrich Alexander von Redern		1845	1848
Georg von Werthern		1848	1850
Heinrich Alexander von Redern		1850	1854
Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade		1854	1862
1862: Recognition of the Kingdom of Italy by Prussia

Ambassador at Rome

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Barthold Georg Niebuhr		1816	1823
Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen		1823	1838

See also

• Italy–Germany relations

References

1. Amt, Auswärtiges. "German missions in Italy". www.auswaertiges-amt.de. German Federal Foreign Office . Retrieved 9 January 2024.
2. Bundesgesetzblatt des Norddeutschen Bundes Band 1869, Seite 288 auf Wikisource
3. Bundesgesetzblatt des Norddeutschen Bundes Band 1869, Seite 288 auf Wikisource
4. Tobias C. Bringmann (2001), Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Auswärtige Missionschefs in Deutschland und Deutsche Missionschefs im Ausland von Metternich bis Adenauer, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 99, 143
5. zeno.org
6. Falanga, Gianluca (2008). Mussolinis Vorposten in Hitlers Reich: Italiens Politik in Berlin 1933-1945 (in German). Ch. Links Verlag. p. 191. ISBN   978-3-86153-493-8 . Retrieved 9 January 2024.
7. Short biography, German Embassy in Rome
8. Kahl, Paul; Kalvelage, Hendrik (29 June 2015). Das Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar: Band 1: Das Goethehaus im 19. Jahrhundert. Dokumente (in German). Wallstein Verlag. pp. 226, 244. ISBN   978-3-8353-2738-2 . Retrieved 9 January 2024.