List of ambassadors of Germany to Denmark

The following is a partial list of German diplomatic representatives to Copenhagen in Denmark.

History

Prussian envoys have been appointed to Copenhagen since 1656, and from the North German Confederation since 1868. The German Empire appointed envoys to Copenhagen since 1871. During the occupation by the German Reich from 1940 to 1945, these were replaced by Reich Plenipotentiaries. In January 1951, a Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany was set up in Copenhagen, which was converted into an embassy in June 1951.

The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany is currently headed by Prof. Dr. Pascal Hector, Ambassador and is located at Göteborg Plads 1, 2150 Nordhavn, Copenhagen. There are German consuls in Aarhus (the seat of Aarhus Municipality), Haderslev (the administrative seat of Haderslev Municipality), Nuuk (the capital of Greenland), Nørresundby (a city in Aalborg Municipality), Odense (the largest city on the island of Funen), Rønne (the largest town on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea), and Tórshavn (capital of the Faroe Islands).^[1]

Envoys from the German States (before 1871)

Hanseatic envoys

Name	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Gerhard Ernst von Franckenau	1720	1720	Chargé d'affaires (Lübeck only)
Johann Gottfried Masius	1720	1723	Agent (Lübeck only)
Hieronymus Nicolaus Gercken	1723		Agent
Hermann Jacob Forck	1752	1759	Resident (for Bremen from 1757).
Heinrich Carl Meinig	1759	1810	Resident, agent until 1805 (for Hamburg from 1769)
Interruption of relationships as a result French annexation of the Hanseatic cities: 1810-1814
August Wilhelm Pauli	1814	1848	Resident minister, agent until 1829
Vacant: 1848-1855
Friedrich Krüger	1855	1864	Resident Minister
Vacant: 1865-1868^[2]

Saxon envoys

Diplomatic relations were established in 1743.

Name	Term Start	Term End
Johann von Schade	1700	1703
Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel	1705	1711
Jost Friedrich von Arnstedt	1711	1711
Heinrich Friedrich von Frisen	1714	1715
Hieronymus von Leipziger	1717	1720

Gustav Georg von Völkersahm	1757	1768

Karl Heinrich von Schlitz	1778

Hans Rudolph August von Gersdorf	1815	1808
Benedict Christian von Merbitz	1815	1836

Prussian envoys

Diplomatic relations were established in 1656.

Name	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Friedrich Christian Hieronymus von Voss	1748	1752
Wilhelm Heinrich Maximilian zu Dohna-Schlobitten	1814	1826
Charles-Gustave de Meuron	1826	1830
Atanazy Raczyński	1830	1842
August Ludwig Schoultz von Ascheraden	1842	1847
Vacant: 1847-1850
Karl von Werther	1850	1854
Alphonse von Oriola	1854	1859
Hermann Ludwig von Balan	1859	1864
Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa	1864	1867	Became Envoy of the North German Confederation in 1867.

Envoy of the North German Confederation

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa		1867	1871	Became Envoy of the German Empire in 1871.

Envoy of the German Empire

Name	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa	1871	1878
Anton von Magnus	1878	1881
Maximilian von Philipsborn	1881	1885
Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm	1885	1887
Egon von den Brincken	1887	1895
Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter	1895	1899
Wilhelm von Schoen	1900	1905
Viktor Henckel von Donnersmarck	1906	1910
Julius von Waldthausen	1910	1912
Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau	1912	1918
Konstantin von Neurath	1919	1922
Frédéric von Rosenberg	1922	1922
Gerhard von Mutius	1923	1926
Ulrich von Hassell	1926	1930
Herbert von Richthofen^[3]	1930	1936
Cécil von Renthe-Fink	1936	1942
Werner Best	1942	1945	German occupation of Denmark during World War II

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Name	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Wilhelm Nöldeke^[4]	1951	1954	Consul General from January 1951; Ambassador from June 1951
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz	1954	1958
Gerhart Feine	1958	1959
Hans Berger	1959	1963
Friedrich Buch	1963	1966
Klaus Simon	1966	1970
Günther Scholl	1970	1973
Werner Ahrens	1973	1977
Harald Hofmann	1977	1981
Rudolf Jestaedt	1981	1986
Helmut Redies	1986	1987
Rüdiger von Pachelbel	1988	1991
Hermann Gründel	1991	1996
Johann Dreher	1997	2001
Johannes Dohmes	2001	2005
Gerhard Nourney	2005	2008
Christoph Jessen	2008	2011
Michael Zenner	2011	2014
Claus Robert Krumrei	2014	2017
Andreas Meitzner	2017	2019
Detlev Rünger	2019	2021
Pascal Hector	2021	Present

References

^ Amt, Auswärtiges. "German missions in Denmark". www.auswaertiges-amt.de. German Federal Foreign Office. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
^ Hamburgischer Staats-Kalender auf das Jahr 1867, Nestler & Melle, Hamburg 1867, S. 89
^ "Richthofen'scher Familienverband" (Die Familie in der Zeit der Weltkriege von 1914 bis 1945). Retrieved 2022-03-24.
^ bundesarchiv.de

[auswaertiges-1] Amt, Auswärtiges. "German missions in Denmark". www.auswaertiges-amt.de. German Federal Foreign Office. Retrieved 9 January 2024.

[2] Hamburgischer Staats-Kalender auf das Jahr 1867, Nestler & Melle, Hamburg 1867, S. 89

[3] "Richthofen'scher Familienverband" (Die Familie in der Zeit der Weltkriege von 1914 bis 1945). Retrieved 2022-03-24.

[4] undesarchiv.de

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