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.
Ambassadors to the Holy Roman Empire
1630–1633: François Leclerc du Tremblay 1653–1654: François Cazet de Vautorte 1658–1674: Robert de Gravel 1679–1688: Louis de Verjus 1716–1723: Jacques-Vincent Languet de Gergy 1726–1730: Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny 1741–1742: Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet de Belle-Isle 1763–1772: Louis-Gabriel Du Buat-Nançay 1775–1780: Marc Marie de Bombelles 1797–1799: Théobald Bacher
Ambassadors to the German Confederation Ambassadors to the German Confederation, also accredited to the Free City of Frankfurt, include:
1818–1830: Charles-Frédéric Reinhard (1761–1837) 1830–1839: Jean Baptiste de Alleye de Ciprey (1784-184?) 1840–1842: Antoine Louis Deffaudis (1786–1869) 1842–1847: Justin de Chasseloup-Laubat (1800–1847) 1848–1855: Auguste Bonaventure de Tallenay (1795–1863) 1855–1858: Gustave de Montessuy 1858–1864: Alfred de Salignac-Fénelon (1810–1883) 1864–1866: Edmé de Reculot (1815–1891)
For partial lists, see footnote and.
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. : French envoys to the Bavarian Court at Munich 1624–1626: Victor Claude Alexandre de Faneau 1626–1631: Henri de Gournay de Marcheville 1631–1632: Hercule de Charnacé 1679–1680: Charles Colbert de Croissy 1687–1688: Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars 1743–1745: Daniel François de Gélas de Lautrec 1745–1746: Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny 1746–1748: Armand de Vignerot du Plessis 1748–1755: François de Baschi 1755–1756: Hubert de Folard 1756–1757: Louis-Gabriel Du Buat-Nançay 1776–1776: François Barbé-Marbois 1777–1778: Anne-César de La Luzerne 1780–1789: Messire Louis de Montezan 1792–1792: Frédéric Flamen d'Assigny 1798–1799: Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier 1803–1809: Louis-Guillaume Otto 1810–1814: Louis de Narbonne-Lara 1814–1816: Jules de Polignac 1816–1820: Auguste Delagarde 1821–1826: Louis-Toussaint de la Moussaye 1827–1831: Marie-Théodore de Rumigny 1832–1833: Charles-Joseph Bresson 1833–1834: Alfred de Vaudreuil 1835–1849: Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing 1850–1851: Édouard Thouvenel 1880–1882: Gustave Olivier Lannes de Montebello 1888–1896: Camille Barrère 1897–1904: Jules Henrys d'Aubigny 1904–1907: Alfred Chilhaud-Dumaine 1907–1909: Ernest René Joseph Adrien Bourgarel 1909–1914: Henri Allizé 1920–1924: Émile Dard 1924–1933: Charles François de Paule Lefèvre d'Ormesson 1933–1934: Aimé Leroy : French envoys to the Cologne Court at Bonn 1758–1760: Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil : French envoys to Lübeck, Bremen and Hamburg 1637–1642: Claude de Mesmes 1661–1675: Pierre Bidal d'Asfeld 1768–1770: Emmanuel Marie Louis de Noailles 1788–1790: Jean-François de Bourgoing 1795–1805: Charles-Frédéric Reinhard 1805–1810: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1825–1829: Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle: French envoys to the Brandenburg-Prussian Court at Berlin 1614–1614: Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul 1655–1656: Antoine de Lumbres 1660–1661: Charles Colbert de Croissy 1661–1661: Hugues de Lionne 1679–1679: Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne 1715–1715: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquess of Torcy 1732–1739: Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie 1740–1748: Louis Guy Henri de Valori 1750–1752: Richard Francis Talbot 1756–1756: Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini 1768–1769: Adrien-Louis de Bonnières 1790–1791: Elénor-François-Elie, Comte de Moustier 1798–1799: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès 1799–1800: Louis-Guillaume Otto 1800–1802: Pierre de Ruel, marquis de Beurnonville 1802–1804: Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon 1805–1806: Antoine de Laforêt 1799–1806: Géraud Duroc, special envoy 1808–1813: Antoine Marie Philippe Asinari de Saint-Marsan 1814–1816: Louis Charles Victor de Riquet de Caraman 1816–1821: Charles François, Marquis de Bonnay 1821–1822: François-René de Chateaubriand 1822–1824: Maximilien Gérard de Rayneval 1824–1825: Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing 1825–1828: Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard de Saint-Priest 1828–1831: Hector-Philippe, comte d'Agoult 1831–1831: Carel Hendrik Ver Huell 1831–1831: Charles, comte de Flahaut 1833–1834: Charles Joseph, comte Bresson 1843–1849: Napoléon-Hector Soult, marquis of Dalmatia 1849–1849: Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, duc de Persigny 1849–1850: Emmanuel Arago 1850–1851: Alexandre, comte de Lurde 1851–1853: Armand Lefebvre 1853–1859: Lionel de Moustier 1859–1862: Godefroi de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais 1863–1864: Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord 1864–1870: Vincent Benedetti : French envoys to the Saxon Court at Dresden 1815-1816: Joseph Fouché 1816-1817: Marc-René, count of Montalambert 1816, 1817-1818: Edouard Dillon 1818–1820: Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg 1820–1827: Marie-Théodore de Rumigny 1827–1830: Georges de Riquet de Caraman 1830–1832: Charles-Frédéric Reinhard 1832–1835: Paul-Charles-Amable de Bourgoing
At the time of the German Confederation additional missions were opened in Baden, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau and Württemberg. 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)
For main sources for this section, see footnote and.
Start of term End of term Ambassador 1872 1877 Elie de Gontaut-BironResigned in December 1877. 1877 1881 Raymond de Saint-Vallier 1881 1886 Alphonse Chodron de Courcel 1886 1896 Jules Gabriel Herbette 1896 1902 Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles 1902 1907 Georges Paul Louis Bihourd 1907 1914 Jules Cambon 1914 1920 Break in diplomatic relations during World War I and its aftermath June 1920 December 1922 Charles François Laurent* 1922 1931 Pierre de Margerie 1931 1938 André François-Poncet 1938 1939 Robert Coulondre
Ambassadors to West Germany For main sources for this section, see footnote and. Also available in German
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 term End of term Ambassador 1949 1955 André François-Poncet (Allied High Commissioner from 1949 to 1955 and ambassador after August 1, 1955) 1955 1956 Louis Joxe 1956 1958 Maurice Couve de Murville 1958 1962 François Seydoux de Clausonne 1962 1965 Roland de Margerie 1965 1970 François Seydoux de Clausonne 1970 1974 Jean Sauvagnargues 1974 1977 Olivier Wormser 1977 1981 Jean-Pierre Brunet 1981 1983 Henri Froment-Meurice 1983 1986 Jacques Morizet 1986 1992 Serge Boidevaix (German reunification occurred in 1990)
Ambassadors to East Germany For the main source for this section, see footnote and.
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 term End of term Ambassador (or diplomat of highest rank) 1973 1974 Jacques Jessel (Chargé d'Affaires) 1974 1976 Bernard Guillier de Chalvron 1976 1981 Henry Bayle 1981 1981 Xavier du Cauzé de Nazelle 1981 1986 Maurice Deshors 1986 1990 (German reunification) Joëlle Timsit
Ambassadors to post-reunification Germany For main sources for this section, see footnote and. Start of term End of term Ambassador 1986 1992 Serge Boidevaix (German reunification occurred in 1990) 1992 1993 Bertrand Dufourcq 1993 1999 François Scheer 1999 2007 Claude Martin 2007 2011 Bernard de Montferrand 2011 2014 Maurice Gourdault-Montagne 2014 2017 Philippe Étienne 2017 2022 Anne-Marie Descôtes 2022 François DelattrePhilippe Ricard (31 July 2022), Le chassé-croisé des ambassadeurs renouvelle la direction du ministère des affaires étrangères Le Monde.
See also France–Germany relations List of ambassadors of Germany to France References