# 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).

## 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 |||||

### 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 | 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 | 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 | |