List of ambassadors of Nazi Germany

The German foreign office (Auswärtiges Amt (AA)) had a sizable network of diplomatic missions when Nazis came to power in 1933. While it was a deeply traditional and elitist organisation within the German civil service, it enthusiastically helped the Nazis prosecute an ambitious foreign policy.

Listed here are the ambassadors and other senior diplomats of the AA during the Third Reich, including those with the ranks of envoy (Gesandter), ambassador (Botschafter) consul and consul general as well as chargé d'affaires (Geschäftsträger)

Abyssinia (1932–1935) (1935–1936)

Afghanistan (1933–1936) (1937–1945)

Albania (1930–1936) (1936–1941) (1941–1944)

Argentina (1933–1942) (1942–1944)

Austria Kurt Rieth (1931–1934) Franz von Papen (1934–1938)

Belgium Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg (1931–1934) (1934–1936) (1936–1938) (1938–1940) (1940–1943)

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Envoy) (1942–1943) (1943–1945)

Bolivia Maximilian König (1932–1936) Ernst Wendler (1938–1942)

Brazil (1933–1937) Karl Ritter (1937–1938) Curt Max Prüfer (1939–1942)

Bulgaria Eugen Rümelin (1923–1939) Herbert von Richthofen (1939–1941) Adolf-Heinz Beckerle (1941–1944)

Chile Hans Kurd von Reiswitz und Kaderzin (1932–1934) (1936–1943)

China and the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of ChinaGerman Intelligence Activities in China During World War II Oskar Trautmann (1935–1938) Heinrich Georg Stahmer (1941–1943) Ernst Woermann (1943–1945)

Consul General in Canton Felix Alternburg (1934–1938) Franz Siebert (1939–1945)

Consul General in Hankou Enno Bracklo (1938–1947)

Consul in Jinan Franz Siebert (1925–1938)

Consul General in Nanjing (1941–1944)

Consul in Qingdao Enno Bracklo (1932–1938)

Consul General in Shanghai Hermann Kriebel (1934–1937) (1939–1945) Walther Dietrich Hoops (1945)

Consul General in Tienstin (1936–1941) Fritz Wiedemann (1941–1945)

Colombia Erdmann Karl Maria von Podewils-Dürniz (1928–1934) Werner von Hentig (1934–1936) Wolfgang Dittler (1936–1941)

Croatia, Independent State of Hermann Neubacher (1941–1941) Siegfried Kasche (1941–1945)

Cuba (1937–1939)

Czechoslovakia Walter Koch (1920–1935) Ernst Eisenlohr (1935–1938) (1938–1939)

Danzig, Free City of Edmund von Thermann [de](1925-1933) (1933–1936) (1936–1938) Martin von Janson (1938–1939)

Denmark Herbert Freiherr von Richthofen (1930–1936) Cécil von Renthe-Fink (1936–1942) Werner Best (1942–1945)

Ecuador Karl Pistor (1932–1936) Eugen Klee (1936–1942)

Egypt Eberhard von Stohrer (1926–1936)

Estonia Otto Reinebeck (1932–1936) Hans Frohwein (1936–1940)

Finland Hans Büsing (1932–1935) Wipert von Blücher (1935–1944)

France Roland Köster (1933–1936) Johannes von Welczeck (1936–1939) Otto Abetz (1940–1944) ambassador invested by Germany

Consul General in Algiers Erich Windels (1926–1934) Hermann Terdenge (1934–1937) Johannes Erhard Richter (1937–1939)

Consul General in Damascus (1934–1935) Ferdinand Sailer (1935–1939)

Consul in Hanoi (1928–1936) Neumann (1941–1942)

Consul General in Marseille Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (1942–1944)

Greece Ernst Eisenlohr (1931–1936) (1936–1941)

Guatemala Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1924–1934) Erich Kraske (1934–1936) Otto Reinebeck (1937–1941) Christian Zinsser (1941) (1941)

Holy See Diego von Bergen (1920–1943) Ernst von Weizsäcker (1943–1945)

Hungary Hans Georg von Mackensen (1933–1937) Otto von Erdmannsdorff (1937–1941) Dietrich von Jagow (1941–1944) Edmund Veesenmayer (1944–1945)

Iceland (1939–1940)

Iraq Fritz Grobba (1932–1939)

Ireland Georg Dehn-Schmidt (1923–1934) Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1934–1937) Eduard Hempel (1937–1945)

Italy and the Italian Social Republic Ulrich von Hassell (1932–1938) Hans Georg von Mackensen (1938–1942) Rudolf Rahn (1942–1944)

Consul General in Genoa (1941–1944)

Consul General in Milan (1937–1939) (1940) (1940–1941)

Consul General in Naples (1943)

Consul General in Tripoli Gebhardt von Walther (1941–1943)

Japan Herbert von Dirksen (1933–1938) Willy Noebel (1938) Eugen Ott (1938–1942) Heinrich Georg Stahmer (1943–1945)

Consul General in Kobe Wagner (-1938) August Balser (1938–1945)

Consul General in Yokohama Menne (-1943) Heinrich Seelheim (1943–1945)

Latvia Georg Martius (1932–1934) Eckhard von Schack (1934–1938) Hans Ulrich von Kotze (1938–1941)

Lithuania Erich Zechlin (1933–1941)

Luxembourg Werner Freiherr von Ow-Wachendorf (1931–1934) Erdmann Graf von Podewilz-Dürniz (1934–1936) Otto von Radowitz (1936–1940)

Manchukuo Wilhelm Wagner

Consul General in Harbin August Ponschab

Consul General in Mukden Ernst Ramm

Consul General in Dairen Ernst Bischoff

Mexico Heinrich Rüdt von Collenberg (1933–1941)

Monaco (1943–1944)

Netherlands Julius von Zech-Burkersroda (1928–1940) Otto Bene (1940–1945)

Consul General in Batavia Manfred Klaiber (1938)

Nicaragua Hugo Otto Danckers (1936–1941)

Norway Heinrich Rohland (1934–1936) Heinrich Sahm (1936–1939) Curt Bräuer (1939–1940)

Paraguay Fritz Max Weiss (1933–1934) Erhard Graf von Wedel (1934–1937) Hans Büsing (1937–1942)

Persia/Iran Wipert von Blücher (1931–1935) Johann Smend (1935–1939) (1939–1941)

Peru Heinrich Rohland (1924–1934) Ernst Schmitt (1934–1938) Eduard Willy Noebel (1938–1942)

Poland Hans-Adolf von Moltke (1931–1939)

Portugal Hans Freytag 1933–1934 Oswald Baron von Hoyningen-Huene 1934–1945 Gustav Adolph von Halem (1945)

Romania Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg (1931–1934) Georg von Dehn-Schmidt (1934–1935) Wilhelm Fabricius (1936–1940) Manfred von Killinger (1941–1944) (1944)

Saudi Arabia Fritz Grobba (1939)

Slovak Republic (1939–1940) Manfred von Killinger (1940) Hanns Ludin (1941–1945)

Spain Count Johannes von Welczeck (1925–1936) (1933–1936) Wilhelm Faupel (1936–1937) Eberhard von Stohrer (1937–1942) Hans-Adolf von Moltke (1943) (1943) Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (1943–1944) Sigismund von Bibra (1944–1945)

Consul General in Barcelona Hans Kroll (-1945)

Consul in Vigo (1943–1945)

Sweden Viktor zu Wied (1933–1943) Hans Thomsen (1943–1945)

Switzerland Freiherr von Schauenburg-Herrlisheim (-1920) Hans Borchers (1920–1933) Ernst von Weizsäcker (1933–1937) Otto Carl Köcher (1937–1945)

Tangier International Zone Kurt Rieth (1941–1944)

Thailand Erich August Karl Nord (1933–1935) (1936–1941) Ernst Wendler (1943–1945)

Turkey Rudolf Nadolny (1928–1933) Hans von Rosenberg (1933–1935) Friedrich von Keller (1935–1938) Franz von Papen (1939–1944)

Union of Socialist Soviet Republics Herbert von Dirksen (1928–1933) Rudolf Nadolny (1933–1934) Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1934–1941)

Consul General in Batum Otto Bräutigam (1940–1941)

United Kingdom Leopold von Hoesch (1932–1936) Joachim von Ribbentrop (1936–1938) Herbert von Dirksen (1938–1939)

Consul General in Calcutta Werner von Ow-Wachendorf (1933–1936) Erdmann von Podewils-Dürnitz (1936–1939)

Consul General in Hong Kong Hermann Gipperich (1933–1939)

Consul General in Jerusalem (1933–1935) (1935–1939)

Consul General in Montreal and Ottawa (relocated in 1937) Ludwig Kempff (1922–1935) Henry Schafhausen (1935–1937) Erich Windels (1937–1939)

Consul General in Pretoria Friedrich Wilhelm von Keßler (1931–1933) Emil Wiehl (1933–1937) Rudolf Leitner (1937–1939)

Consul General in Singapore Walther Maenns (1931–1938) Adolf von Windecker (1938–1939)

Consul General in Sydney Rudolf Asmis (1932–1939)

Consul General in Wellington (1936–1938)

United States Hans Luther (1933–1937) Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (1937–1938) Hans Thomsen (1938–1941)

Consul in Boston Herbert Scholz (1933–1941)

Consul in Chicago Georg Krause-Wichmann (1939–1941)

Consul General in Cleveland Hans Borchers (1926–1933) Karl Kapp (1936–1941)

Consul General in Los Angeles Georg Gyssling (1933–1941)

Consul in Manila Max Schulze (1933–1938) Gustav Sakowsky (1938–1941) Hans Lautenschlager (January–July 1941)

Consul General in New Orleans Ernst Wendler (1934–1936) Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (1937–1941)

Consul General in New York Hans Borchers (1933–1941)

Consul General in Philadelphia Erich Windels (1939–1941)

Consul General in San Francisco Fritz Wiedemann (1939–1941)

Consul General in San Juan Henry Freese (-1941)

Consul General in St. Louis Herbert Diel (-1941)

Venezuela (1932–1937) Erwin Poensgen (1937–1941)

Yugoslavia Viktor von Heeren (1933–1941)

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