List of ambassadors of Germany to France

This is an incomplete list of ambassadors from Germany to France.

Ambassador of Germany to France
Incumbent
Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut
since 2015
StyleAmbassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary
ResidenceParis
Inaugural holderHarry von Arnim
Formation1871

Diplomatic missions
The initiation of the new German Embassy building in Paris, 1968
The German Embassy in Paris
The German Consulate-General in Lyon

In 1874, the Embassy in Paris was one of only four Germany embassies alongside London, Saint Petersburg, and Vienna, Today, of 226 diplomatic missions abroad, Germany has five diplomatic and consular missions in France. The German Embassy is in Paris.[1] In 1961, France returned the Hôtel de Beauharnais, the former German embassy in Paris which had been expropriated by France at the end of World War II, as a gesture of solidarity between the two nations.[2] Additionally, there are four consulates-general in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille and Strasbourg.[3][4]

The Hôtel de Beauharnais in the 7th arrondissement of Paris serves as the official residence of the German Ambassador to France.[5]

Ambassadors of Germany to France

Ambassadors of West Germany to France

Ambassadors of Germany to France

See also

References
  1. "The Germany Embassy in Paris | France". www.allemagneenfrance.diplo.de/. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  2. Times, Special to The New York (21 July 1961). "Germany Regains Old Paris Embassy". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  3. Embassy of Germany in Paris
  4. Amt, Auswärtiges. "France". auswaertiges-amt.de. German Federal Foreign Office. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  5. "Hôtel de Beauharnais, actuellement résidence de l'ambassadeur d'Allemagne". French Ministry of Culture. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  6. de), Dorothée Dino (duchesse (1910). Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino: (afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand Et de Sagan) 1841-1850. W. Heinemann. p. 372. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  7. Christoph Scheuermann and Christoph Schult (April 18, 2018), Außenpolitik: Maas wechselt deutsche Botschafter aus Spiegel Online.
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