List of ambassadors of Germany to Spain

This list contains the German ambassadors and heads of mission in Spain. Since 1995, the German ambassador in Madrid has also been double accredited to Andorra and traditionally presents his credentials for Andorra to the Co-Prince of Andorra, the Bishop of Urgell.

History

The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany is located on Calle de Fortuny in Madrid. ^[1] There is a Consulate General located in Barcelona (the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia); Consulates in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (the capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands), Málaga (the capital of the province of Málaga), and La Palma (one of the Canary Islands); and honorary consuls in Almería (the capital of the province of Almería), Alicante (the capital of the province of Alicante), Bilbao (the largest city in the province of Biscay), Menorca (one of the Balearic Islands), Playa Blanca (a town on the island of Lanzarote), Puerto de la Cruz (a city in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands), Santa Cruz de La Palma (capital of the island of La Palma), Valencia (the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia), Vigo (a city in the province of Pontevedra), and Zaragoza (the capital city of the province of Zaragoza). ^[1]

Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany

The new building of the German Embassy, built in 1967, architect: Alexander von Branca

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
/ Federal Republic of Germany
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria		1952	1956
Karl Heinrich Knappstein		1956	1958
Wolfgang von Welck		1958	1963	Military attaché from 1958–1964: Achim Oster
Helmut Allardt		1963	1968
Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg		1968	1974
Georg von Lilienfeld		1974	1977
Lothar Lahn		1977	1982
Guido Brunner		1982	1992
Hermann Huber		1992	1995
Henning Wegener		1995	1999
Joachim Bitterlich		1999	2002	[2]
Georg Boomgaarden		2003	2005	[3]
Wolf-Ruthart Born		2006	2009	[4]
Reinhard Silberberg		2009	2014	[5]
Peter Tempel		2014	2018	[6]
Wolfgang Dold		2018	2022	[7]
Maria Margarete Gosse		2022	Present	[8] [9]

Ambassadors of the German Empire

The German Embassy building in Madrid (about 1930) on the Paseo de la Castellana

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
North German Confederation
Julius von Canitz und Dallwitz		1867	1871	From 1867: Prussian ambassador
/ / / German Empire
Julius von Canitz und Dallwitz		1871	1874
Paul von Hatzfeldt		1874	1878	Envoy
Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde		1878	1887	Envoy
Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm		1887	1892	Envoy
Joseph Maria von Radowitz Jr.		1892	1908
Christian von Tattenbach		1908	1910
Max von Ratibor und Corvey		1910	1918
Vacant		1918	1920
Leopold von Hoesch		1920	1920	Chargé d’Affaires from January to October 1920
Ernst Langwerth von Simmern		1920	1925
Johannes von Welczeck		1926	1936 [10]
April to July 1936: Eberhard von Stohrer received his letter of accreditation as ambassador on 24 July 1936, but did not hand it in to the government of the Spanish Republic because the German did not want to commit itself diplomatically to the putsch.
Hans Hermann Völckers		1936	1939 [11]	Chargé d'affaires [12]
Wilhelm Faupel		1936	1937 [13]	First consul general of the German Empire to Francisco Franco in Salamanca
Eberhard von Stohrer		1937	1942 [14]
Hans-Adolf von Moltke		1943	1943 [15]
Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff		1943	1944 [16]
Sigismund von Bibra		1944	1945	Chargé d'affaires from September 2, 1944
1945 to 1952: No relationship

Envoys of the German States (before 1871)

Hanoverian envoys

• 1863–1866: Adolf von Grote

Hanseatic envoys

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
1649: Establishment of diplomatic relations
Walter Delbrügge		1649	1697	General Procurator and Plenipotentiary Minister
Joseph Delbrügge		1697	1725	Agent and Minister Plenipotentiary, son of Walter Delbrügge
Joseph de Lauro		1725	1728	Agent and Minister Plenipotentiary
Joseph Delbrügge		1729	1732	Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary
Isaac del Grado		1732	1739	Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary
Antoine de Conti		1739	1762	Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary
Johan Frans van der Lepe		1764	1796	Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary
Carl Andreoli		1796	1806	Resident Minister, full-time Habsburg embassy secretary
Wilhelm Ferdinand von Genotte		1807	1809	Resident minister, full-time from 1806 to 1809
1809 to 1814: Interruption of relations as a result of the Spanish War of Independence (Genotte withdrew to Cádiz)
Wilhelm Ferdinand von Genotte		1814	1817	Ministerial resident for Hamburg and Bremen
Johann von Provost		1817	1819	Resident minister, full-time from 1817 to 1819
Lazar von Brunetti		1819	1823	Resident minister, full-time from 1819 to 1834
Johann Frank von Negelsfürst		1823	1824
Lazar von Brunetti		1824	1834	Resident minister, full-time from 1819 to 1834
Johann von Reymond		1834	1837	Resident minister, 1834 to 1836 full-time
1837: Abolition of the ministerial residency, diplomatic representation by the German Empire from 1871

Prussian ambassadors

1782: Establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1810–1821: Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther
• 1821–1823: Daniel Andreas Berthold von Schepeler
• 1823–1824: Bogislaw von Maltzan
• 1824–1825: Peter Heinrich August von Salviati
• 1825–1835: August von Liebermann
• 1835–1848: Interruption of relations
• 1848–1852: Atanazy Raczyński
• 1853–1864: Ferdinand von Galen
• 1864–1867: Georg von Werthern
• 1867–1874: Julius von Canitz und Dallwitz

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

Saxon ambassadors

1739: Establishment of diplomatic relations

• 1739–1761: Johann Joseph Hyazinth von Kolowrat-Krakowsky
• 1761–1763: k. A
• 1763–1766: Johann Joseph Hyazinth von Kolowrat-Krakowsky
• 1766–1773: Friedrich Magnus von Saul

…

• 1788–1789: Sigismund Ehrenreich Johann von Redern

…

• 1811–1819: Vacant
• 1819–1820: Carl von Friesen
• 1820–1824: Friedrich Bernhard Biedermann
• 1824–1828: Hans Heinrich von Könneritz
• 1828–1852: Interruption of relations
• 1852–1853: Oswald von Fabrice
• 1853–1856: Adolph Keil
• 1856–1870: Vacant

1870: Dissolution of the embassy

See also

• Germany–Spain relations

References

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4. "Dr. Wolf-Ruthart Born – IFAIR". Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations . 14 September 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
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8. ""We must always remember that the EU is the heart of a peaceful Europe"". The Diplomat in Spain. 18 September 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
9. "German ambassador: Europe needs today "unity, strength and resilience"". The Diplomat in Spain. 29 September 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
10. March 1926 to April 1936
11. July to November. Also embassy councilor Karl C. Schwendemann, Detective Inspector Paul Winzer
12. La defensa de Madrid, Hans Völkers
13. November 28, 1936 to February 12, 1937. Ambassador in Salamanca February 12, 1937 to August 18, 1937. The Ibero-American Institute awarded him the title of ambassador, his is in the files of the Foreign Office Letter filed in the non-diplomatic department.
14. September 23, 1937 – December 16, 1942. Cf Erich W. Gardemann (1963), "Gast bei Juanito", Der Spiegel , 10 January, no. 36 Marine attaché Gerhard Wagner
15. January 1, 1943 to March 22, 1943
16. March 30, 1943 to September 2, 1944. August 1943 to May 1945 Military Attaché: Hans Doerr