List of ambassadors of France to Germany

The following is a (currently incomplete) list of Ambassadors of France to Germany and precursors of the modern German state. It also includes top-ranking French diplomats in Germany who did not formally have the ambassador title.

Ambassadors to the German Confederation

Also accredited to the Free City of Frankfurt

  • 1818–1830: Charles-Frédéric Reinhard (1761–1837)
  • 1830–1839: Jean Baptiste de Alleye de Ciprey (1784-184?)
  • 1840–1842: Antoine Louis Deffaudis (1786–1869)
  • 1842–1847: Justin de Chasseloup-Laubat (1800–1847)
  • 1848–1855: Auguste Bonaventure de Tallenay (1795–1863)
  • 1855–1858: Gustave de Montessuy
  • 1858–1864: Alfred de Salignac-Fénelon (1810–1883)
  • 1864–1866: Edmé de Reculot (1815–1891)
For partial lists, see [1] and.[2]

Ambassadors to German states

France established permanent diplomatic missions to individual German states during the Thirty Years War or shortly thereafter, most notably Bavaria, Cologne, Prussia, Saxony and the free Hanseatic cities at Hamburg, all of which date from a time around the 1620s to 1640s.

At the time of the German Confederation additional missions were opened in Baden, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau and Württemberg.[1][2] After disestablishment of the German Confederation and establishment of the North-German Confederation, France's mission at Berlin became France's principal mission to Germany.

Ambassadors to the German Empire and Germany (1871-1939)
Ambassador André François-Poncet with German field marshal Erhard Milch
Main sources for this section:[3] and.[4]
Start of term End of term Ambassador
18721877Elie de Gontaut-Biron [5]
18771881Raymond de Saint-Vallier
18811886Alphonse Chodron de Courcel
18861896Jules Gabriel Herbette
18961902Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles
19021907Georges Paul Louis Bihourd
19071914Jules Cambon
19141920Break in diplomatic relations during World War I and its aftermath
June 1920December 1922Charles François Laurent[6]
19221931Pierre de Margerie
19311938André François-Poncet
19381939Robert Coulondre

Ambassadors to West Germany
Main sources for this section:[7] and [8]

Diplomatic relations between France and Germany were cut following the invasion of Poland in 1939. France restored diplomatic relations with West Germany in 1949 and with East Germany in 1973.

Start of term End of term Ambassador
19491955André François-Poncet (Allied High Commissioner from 1949 to 1955 and ambassador after August 1, 1955)
19551956Louis Joxe
19561958Maurice Couve de Murville
19581962François Seydoux de Clausonne
19621965Roland de Margerie
19651970François Seydoux de Clausonne
19701974Jean Sauvagnargues
19741977Olivier Wormser
19771981Jean-Pierre Brunet
19811983Henri Froment-Meurice
19831986Jacques Morizet
19861992Serge Boidevaix (German reunification occurred in 1990)

Ambassadors to East Germany
Main source for this section:[7] and [8].

Diplomatic relations between France and Germany were cut following the invasion of Poland in 1939. France restored diplomatic relations with West Germany in 1949 and with East Germany in 1973.

Start of term End of term Ambassador (or diplomat of highest rank)
19731974Jacques Jessel (Chargé d'Affaires)
19741976Bernard Guillier de Chalvron
19761981Henry Bayle
19811981Xavier du Cauzé de Nazelle[9]
19811986Maurice Deshors[10]
19861990
(German reunification)		Joëlle Timsit

Ambassadors to post-reunification Germany
Main sources for this section:[7] and [8].
Start of term End of term Ambassador
19861992Serge Boidevaix (German reunification occurred in 1990)
19921993Bertrand Dufourcq
19931999François Scheer
19992007Claude Martin
20072011Bernard de Montferrand
20112014Maurice Gourdault-Montagne
20142017Philippe Étienne
2017-Anne-Marie Descôtes

See also

References
  1. Count Guillaume de Garden (1861). Répertoire diplomatique: annales du droit des gens et de la politique extérieure (in French). J. Claye. pp. 45–46 (2nd volume).
  2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France) (1887). "X: Ambassadeurs, envoyés extraordinaires, etc de France à l'étranger de 1815 à 1855". Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la République Française (in French). 9. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale. p. 321.
  3. Aballéa, Marion (2012). "Entre soumission politico-administrative et goût de l'initiative individuelle: les diplomates français en poste à Berlin de 1871 aux années 1930". L'Europe, nouvelles approches (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. pp. 9–28. ISBN 9782296966864. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France). "La France en Allemagne. Hier - un peu d'histoire" (in French). French Embassy in Berlin. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  5. Resigned in December 1877.
  7. "Liste chronologique des représentants permanents de la France avec rang d'ambassadeur auprès de commissions, organisations et conférences internationales" (PDF) (in French). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France). p. 37. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  8. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France). "Ambassadeurs en Allemagne depuis 1955" (in French). French Embassy in Berlin. Retrieved 20 January 2013. Also available in German Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Décret du 5 janvier 1981" (in French). Journal officiel de la République française. 7 January 1981. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  10. "Décret du 9 septembre 1981" (in French). Journal officiel de la République française. 11 September 1981. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
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