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."
Ambassador 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 | .jpg.webp) |
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 | ||||
Ambassador of the German Reich 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 | (2).jpg.webp) |
1939 | 1944 |
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Turkey
| Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No diplomatic relations until 1952, protecting power representation: Switzerland | ||||
| Wilhelm Haas |  |
1952 | 1956 | |
| Fritz Oellers | .tif.jpg.webp) |
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 | ||
See also
References
- ↑ "German representations in Turkey". tuerkei.diplo.de. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ↑ "Adolf von Marschall von Bieberstein | German statesman". www.britannica.com. Britannica. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ↑ Bouris, Christos. "Wangenheim, Hans von". encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Retrieved 8 January 2024.