The British ambassador to Germany is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Federal Republic of Germany, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Germany. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany.

History On German unification in 1871 the British ambassador to the Kingdom of Prussia/North German Confederation in Berlin became the ambassador to the new German Empire. During the partition of Germany following World War II the Ambassador to the new Federal Republic (or West Germany) resided in Bonn, the capital, from 1952. Berlin once more became the capital at reunification in 1990 and the ambassador returned to Berlin in a new Embassy building, on the exact site of its predecessor in the Wilhelmstrasse, in 2000.

This article also includes the following predecessors: German Confederation, whose Diet was at Frankfurt. North German Confederation.

For envoys to the: Holy Roman Emperor see Austria. Imperial Diet at Ratisbon see Bavaria. Imperial Court at Brussels see Belgium.

Elector of Cologne at Cologne and then Bonn see Cologne Electorate of Hanover and then Kingdom of Hanover at Hanover see Hanover Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck see Hanseatic Cities Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and then Electorate of Hesse at Darmstadt see Hesse-Cassel Elector of Brandenburg and to the Kingdom of Prussia at Berlin see Prussia Electorate of Saxony and then Kingdom of Saxony at Dresden see Saxony Kingdom of Württemberg at Stuttgart see Württemberg Other German States see other German states

List of heads of mission

German Confederation

Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary 1817–1824: Hon. Frederick Lamb 1824–1827: Hon. Frederick CathcartS. T. Bindoff, E. F. Malcolm Smith and C. K. Webster, British Diplomatic Representatives 1789-1852 (Camden 3rd Series, 50, 1934). 1826–1828: John Ralph Milbanke Chargé d'Affaires (Legation secretary 1826–1835) 1828–1829: Henry Addington 1829–1830: George Chad 1830–1838: Thomas Cartwright 1838: Hon. Henry Fox 1838–1839: Ralph Abercromby 1840–1848: Hon. William Fox-Strangways 1848–1852: Henry Wellesley, 2nd Baron Cowley (Special Mission 1849-1851) 1852–1866: Sir Alexander Malet, 2nd Baronet German Confederation dissolved 1866

North German Confederation Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1868–1871: Lord Augustus Loftus (previously Ambassador to Prussia, 1866-1868) North German Confederation becomes German Empire 1870-71

German Empire

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1871–1884: Lord Odo Russell (created 1st Baron Ampthill in 1881) 1884–1895: Sir Edward Malet 1895–1908: Sir Frank Lascelles 1908–1914: Sir Edward Goschen No representation 1914–1919 due to World War I—US diplomats mainly took care of duties during this time

Weimar Republic

Chiefs of the Military Mission to Berlin 1919: Gordon Macready 1919–1920: Neill Malcolm

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1920: Lord Kilmarnock (later 21st Earl of Erroll) Chargé d'Affaires 1920–1926: Lord D'Abernon (created 1st Viscount D'Abernon in 1926) 1926–1928: The Hon Sir Ronald Lindsay 1928–1933: Sir Horace Rumbold

Third Reich

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1933–1937: Sir Eric Phipps 1937–1939: Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson

World War II and after No representation 1939–1945 due to World War II Post-war government of Germany 1945–1948 by Allied Control Council

West Germany

High commissioners at Allied High Commission 1949–1950: Sir Brian Robertson (later 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge) 1950–1953: Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick 1953–1955: Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar (later 1st Baron Inchyra)

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1955–1957: Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar (later 1st Baron Inchyra) 1957–1962: Sir Christopher Steel 1962–1968: Sir Frank Roberts 1968–1972: Sir Roger Jackling 1972–1975: Sir Nicholas Henderson 1975–1981: Sir Oliver Wright 1981–1984: Sir Jock Taylor 1984–1988: Sir Julian Bullard 1988–1990: Sir Christopher Mallaby

East Germany

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1974–1976: Sir Curtis Keeble 1976–1978: Sir Percy Cradock 1978–1981: 1981–1984: Peter Maxey 1984–1988: 1988–1990: Sir Nigel Broomfield 1990: Patrick Eyers

Germany

Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary 1990–1993: Sir Christopher Mallaby 1993–1997: Sir Nigel Broomfield 1997: Christopher Meyer (later Sir Christopher Meyer) 1997–2003: Sir Paul Lever 2003–2007: Sir Peter Torry 2007–2010: Sir Michael Arthur 2010–2015: Sir Simon McDonald 2015–2020: Sir Sebastian WoodSir Sebastian Wood KCMG, British Ambassador to Germany, gov.uk

2020–2024: Jill Gallard 2024-: Andrew Mitchell

References

External links UK and Germany, gov.uk