The list of German ambassadors in Brazil contains the highest-ranking representatives of the North German Confederation, the German Empire and the Federal Republic of Germany in Brazil.
History As early as 1867, the North German Confederation had sent a representative for diplomatic affairs to Brazil. This post was then taken over by accredited diplomats from the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich until the representation in Rio de Janeiro was converted into a full-fledged embassy in 1937. With the establishment of Brasília as the new capital, the German embassy also moved there in 1970.
North German Confederation/German Empire Name Image Term Start Term End Notes Julius de Saint-Pierre 1867 1871 Minister-resident of the North German Confederation Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde 1872 1873 Minister-resident of the German Empire Xaver Uebel 1874 1877 Chargé d'affaires Heinrich von Beust 1877 1879 Rudolf Friedrich Le Maistre 1879 1886 Otto Magnus von Dönhoff 1886 1892 Heinrich Graf von Luxburg 1892 1894 Chargé d'affaires Friedrich Richard Krauel 1894 1898 Emmerich von Arco-Valley 1898 1900 Karl Georg von Treutler 1901 1907 Franz von Reichenau 1907 1908 Emmerich von Arco-Valley 1909 1909 Christian Gustav Michahelles 1910 1913 Adolf Pauli 1913 1917 Georg Alfred Plehn 1920 1925 Hubert Knipping 1925 1932 Arthur Schmidt-Elskop 1933 1937 Envoy Karl Ritter 1937 1938 Curt Max Prüfer 1939 1942
Federal Republic of Germany Name Image Term Start Term End Notes Fritz Oellers 1951 1956 Carl Werner Dankwort 1956 1958 Gebhardt von Walther 1958 1959 Herbert Dittmann 1959 1962 Gebhard Seelos 1962 1966 Ehrenfried von Holleben 1966 1971 Last German ambassador in Rio Karl Hermann Knoke 1971 1974 First ambassador in the new capital Brasília Horst Röding 1974 1977 Hansjörg Kastl 1977 1980 Franz Jochen Schoeller 1980 1983 Walter Gorenflos 1984 1987 Heinz Dittmann 1987 1990 Theodor Wallau 1991 1993 Herbert Limmer 1993 1995 Claus-Jürgen Duisberg 1995 1999 Hans-Bodo Bertram 1999 2001 Uwe Kaestner 2001 2004 Friedrich Prot von Kunow 2004 2009 Wilfried Grolig 2010 2014 Dirk Brengelmann 2014 2016 Georg Witschel 2016 2020 Heiko Thoms 2020 2023 Bettina Cadenbach 2023 Present
See also Brazil-Germany relations
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