# List of ambassadors of Germany to Turkey

List of German ambassadors in Turkey contains the envoys and ambassadors of the German Empire and the Federal Republic of Germany in the Ottoman Empire (until 1918) and in Turkey (from 1924). The seat of the legation or embassy was originally Istanbul, but since 1928 it has been in Ankara.

## History

The following lists diplomats from the founding of the German Empire (1871), although individual German countries had been sending diplomatic representatives to the Bosporus or Asia Minor for significantly longer. Since the early 16th century, the Roman-German emperors maintained a permanent imperial embassy at the Sublime Porte; other German states mostly maintained agencies or consulates that were gradually declared to be accredited legations, such as: Saxony (from 1712), Prussia (from 1756) or the Free Hanseatic Cities (from 1841).
Due to World War I and World War II, there were no diplomatic relations between 1918 and 1924 and between 1944 and 1952. The official rank and title of Germany's highest-ranking representative was from 1871 to 1895 and from 1924 to 1933: "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary."

## Ambassadors of the German Empire to the Ottoman Empire

| Name | Term Start | Term End |
| Heinrich von Keyserlingk-Rautenburg | 1869 | 1872 |
| Robert von Keudell | 1872 | 1873 |
| Karl von Werther | 1874 | 1877 |
| Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss | 1877 | 1878 |
| Paul von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg | 1878 | 1882 |
| Joseph Maria von Radowitz | 1882 | 1892 |
| Prince Hugo von Radolin | 1892 | 1894 |
| Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch | 1895 | 1897 |
| Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein | 1897 | 1912 |
| Hans von Wangenheim | 1912 | 1915 |
| Paul Wolff Metternich | 1915 | 1916 |
| Richard von Kühlmann | 1916 | 1917 |
| Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff | 1917 | 1918 |
| No diplomatic relations until 1924, protecting power representation: Sweden |||||

## Ambassadors of the German Empire to Turkey

| Name | Term Start | Term End | Notes |
| Rudolf Nadolny | 1924 | 1933 | In Istanbul until 1928 |
| Frederic von Rosenberg | 1933 | 1935 | |
| Friedrich von Keller | 1935 | 1938 | |
| Franz von Papen | 1939 | 1944 | |

## Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany to Turkey

| Name | Term Start | Term End |
| No diplomatic relations until 1952, protecting power representation: Switzerland |||||
| Wilhelm Haas | 1952 | 1956 |
| Fritz Oellers | 1956–1959 | |
| Georg von Broich-Oppert | 1959 | 1962 |
| Gebhardt von Walther | 1962 | 1966 |
| Horst Groepper | 1966 | 1968 |
| Rudolf Thierfelder | 1968 | 1970 |
| Gustav Adolf Sonnenhol | 1971 | 1977 |
| Ulrich Sahm | 1977 | 1979 |
| Dirk Oncken | 1979 | 1984 |
| Georg Negwer | 1984 | 1988 |
| Ekkehard Eickhoff | 1988 | 1992 |
| Jürgen Oesterhelt | 1992 | 1995 |
| Hans-Joachim Vergau | 1995 | 2000 |
| Rudolf Schmidt | 2000 | 2003 |
| Wolf-Ruthart Born | 2003 | 2006 |
| Eckart Cuntz | 2006 | 2011 |
| Eberhard Pohl | 2011 | 2015 |
| Martin Erdmann | 2015 | 2020 |
| Jürgen Schulz | 2020 | Present |

## List of Prussian envoys to the Ottoman Empire

1756: Establishment of diplomatic relations
| Name | Term Start | Term End | Notes |
| Karl Adolf von Rexin | 1756 | 1765 | |
| Ludwig Senfft von Pilsach | 1806 | 1807 | Not accredited |
| Heinrich Wilhelm von Werther | 1810 | 1812 |
| Michele Bosgiovich | 1812 | 1815 |
| Adam Friedrich Senfft von Pilsach | 1815 | 1817 |
| Friedrich Heinrich Leopold von Schladen | 1817 | 1823 |
| Alexander von Miltitz | 1823 | 1828 |
| Karl Wilhelm von Canitz und Dallwitz | 1828 | 1829 |
| Camille von Royer-Lühnes | 1828 | 1830 |
| Friedrich von Martens | 1831 | 1835 |
| Hans Karl Albrecht von Königsmarck | 1835 | 1842 |
| Emil Gustav von Le Coq | 1842 | 1847 |
| Vacant | 1847 | 1850 |
| Albert von Pourtalès | 1850 | 1852 |
| Louis von Wildenbruch | 1852 | 1857 |
| Robert Heinrich Ludwig von der Goltz | 1859 | 1862 |
| Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade | 1862 | 1869 |
From 1867: Ambassador of the North German Confederation, from 1871: Ambassador of the German Empire