Embassy of Germany, London

Embassy of Germany in London
Location London
Address 21-23 Belgrave Square
Ambassador Georg Boomgaarden

The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Court of St. James's is Germany's diplomatic mission to the United Kingdom.

The embassy is currently located at 23 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PZ, in Belgravia. It occupies three of the original terraced houses in Belgrave Square and a late 20th century extension. The current ambassador is Georg Boomgaarden.

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History

The embassy used to be at 9 Carlton House Terrace in the so-called Prussia House, but after World War II the building was requisitioned as enemy property and no longer available. Therefore the Federal Republic of Germany decided to move its diplomatic operations to Belgrave Square, first operating as a Consulate General.

The Consulate General became a fully functional embassy in June 1951, the FRG leasing the building for 99 years in 1953.

In the 1970s, office space in the embassy was tight so an extension was erected at Chesham Place, inaugurated in 1978. It won the Westminster City Council prize for architecture. In 1990, after German reunification, the until-then East German embassy building at 34 Belgrave Square was taken over by the embassy.

Delegates of states of the Holy Roman Empire

Saxony

Hanover

Holstein-Gottorp

Palatinate

Trier

Brandenburg-Prussia

Ambassadors of Prussia

Ambassadors of Germany

North German Confederation (1867-1871)

German Empire (1871-1918)

  1. Albrecht von Bernstorff (1871–1873)
  2. Georg Herbert zu Münster (1873–1885)
  3. Paul von Hatzfeldt (1885–1901)
  4. Paul Wolff Metternich (1901–1912)
  5. Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein (1912)
  6. Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky (1912–1914)

diplomatic relations disrupted due to World War I

Weimar Republic (1919-1933)

  1. Friedrich Sthamer (1920–1930) (chargé d'affaires from 1919)
  2. Konstantin von Neurath (1930–1932)
  3. Leopold von Hoesch (1932–1933)

Third Reich (1933-1945)

  1. Leopold von Hoesch (1933–1936)
  2. Joachim von Ribbentrop (1936-March 12, 1938)
  3. Herbert von Dirksen (1938–1939)

diplomatic relations disrupted due to World War II

German Democratic Republic (1949-1990)

Federal Republic of Germany (since 1949)

  1. Hans Schlange-Schöningen (1950–1955)
  2. Hans von Herwarth (1955–1961)
  3. Hasso von Etzdorf (1961–1965)
  4. Herbert Blankenhorn (1965–1970)
  5. Karl-Günther von Hase (1970–1977)
  6. Hans Helmut Ruethe (1977–1980)
  7. Jürgen Ruhfus (1980–1983)
  8. Rüdiger von Wechmar (1985–1989)
  9. Hermann von Richthofen (1989–1993)
  10. Peter Hartmann (1993–1995)
  11. Jürgen Oesterhelt (1995–1997)
  12. Gebhard von Moltke (1997–1999)
  13. Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz (1999–2002)
  14. Thomas Matussek (2002–2006)
  15. Wolfgang Ischinger (2006–2008)
  16. Georg Boomgaarden (2008–present)

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