Embassy of Germany, London


The Embassy of Germany in London is the diplomatic mission of Germany in the United Kingdom.
The embassy is located at Belgrave Square, in Belgravia. It occupies three of the original terraced houses in Belgrave Square and a late 20th-century extension.

History

The Prussian Consul-General was housed at 9 Carlton House Terrace in the so-called Prussia House. After World War II Prussia House was requisitioned as enemy property and the Federal Republic of Germany moved its consulate and diplomatic operations to Belgrave Square, still operating as a consulate general. The consulate became a fully functional embassy in June 1951, the FRG leasing the building for 99 years in 1953.
In the 1970s, office space in the embassy was tight so an extension was erected at Chesham Place, inaugurated in 1978. It won the Westminster City Council prize for architecture.
In 1990, after German reunification, the East German embassy building at 34 Belgrave Square became part of the German embassy.

Envoys of the German states

Saxony">Electorate of Saxony">Saxony

1692: Opening of diplomatic mission
1804–1814: Interruption of diplomatic relations, due to alliance with France during Napoleonic Wars
1871: Closure of legation

[Brandenburg-Prussia]German Wikipedia article: Liste der preußischen Gesandten im Vereinigten Königreich

[North German Confederation] (1867–1871)

  1. Albrecht von Bernstorff
  2. Georg Herbert zu Münster
  3. Paul von Hatzfeldt
  4. Paul Wolff Metternich
  5. Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein
  6. Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky
diplomatic relations disrupted due to World War I

[Weimar Republic] (1919–1933)

  1. Friedrich Sthamer
  2. Konstantin von Neurath
  3. Leopold von Hoesch

    Third Reich">Nazi Germany">Third Reich (1933–1945)

  4. Leopold von Hoesch
  5. Joachim von Ribbentrop
  6. Herbert von Dirksen
diplomatic relations disrupted due to World War II

German Democratic Republic">East Germany">German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)

  1. Hans Schlange-Schöningen
  2. Hans Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld
  3. Hasso von Etzdorf
  4. Herbert Blankenhorn
  5. Karl-Günther von Hase
  6. Hans Helmut Ruethe
  7. Jürgen Ruhfus
  8. Rüdiger von Wechmar
  9. Hermann von Richthofen
  10. Peter Hartmann
  11. Jürgen Oesterhelt
  12. Gebhardt von Moltke
  13. Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz
  14. Thomas Matussek
  15. Wolfgang Ischinger
  16. Georg Boomgaarden
  17. Peter Ammon
  18. Peter Wittig
  19. Andreas Michaelis

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