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. 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).

Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany

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 Georg Boomgaarden 2003 2005 Wolf-Ruthart Born 2006 2009 Reinhard Silberberg 2009 2014 Peter Tempel 2014 2018 Wolfgang Dold 2018 2022 Maria Margarete Gosse 2022 Present

Ambassadors of the German Empire

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 1936March 1926 to April 1936 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 1939July to November. Also embassy councilor Karl C. Schwendemann, Detective Inspector Paul Winzer Chargé d'affairesLa defensa de Madrid, Hans Völkers Wilhelm Faupel 1936 1937November 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. First consul general of the German Empire to Francisco Franco in Salamanca Eberhard von Stohrer 1937 1942September 23, 1937 – December 16, 1942. Cf Marine attaché Gerhard Wagner Hans-Adolf von Moltke 1943 1943January 1, 1943 to March 22, 1943 Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff 1943 1944March 30, 1943 to September 2, 1944. August 1943 to May 1945 Military Attaché: Hans Doerr Sigismund von Bibra 1944 1945 Chargé d'affaires from September 2, 1944 1945 to 1952: No relations

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 Foreign relations of Germany List of ambassadors of Spain to Germany

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