This list of ambassadors of France to Germany and precursors of the modern German state also includes top-ranking French diplomats in Germany who did not formally have the ambassador title.
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)
This section is about France's envoys to the Perpetual Diet at Regensburg (1663–1806). For France's ambassadors to the Holy Roman Imperial Court, see list of ambassadors of France to Austria.
The former French Legation to the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (January 2013)
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.[4]
Bavaria: French envoys to the Bavarian Court at Munich
At the time of the German Confederation additional missions were opened in Baden, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau and Württemberg.[2][3] 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)edit
Ambassador André François-Poncet with German field marshal Erhard Milch
For main sources for this section, see footnote[5] and.[6]
For main sources for this section, see footnote[9] and.[10]
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.
For the main source for this section, see footnote[9] and.[10]
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.
^Le Bas, Philippe (1844). France. Dictionnaire encyclopédique (in French). Paris: Firmin Didot frères. p. 893.
^ abCount 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).
^ abMinistry 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). Vol. 9. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale. p. 321.
^Le Bas, Philippe (1844). France. Dictionnaire encyclopédique (in French). Paris: Firmin Didot frères.
^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. ISBN9782296966864. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
^*Joly, Hervé (2012), "Les dirigeants des grandes entreprises industrielles françaises au 20e siècle. Des notables aux gestionnaires", Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire (in French), 2 (114): 25, doi:10.3917/vin.114.0016, retrieved 2017-10-17
^ abc"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.
^Philippe Ricard (31 July 2022), Le chassé-croisé des ambassadeurs renouvelle la direction du ministère des affaires étrangères Le Monde.
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This list of ambassadors of France to Germany and precursors of the modern German state also includes top ranking French diplomats in Germany who did not formally have the ambassador title This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items October 2021 Contents 1 Ambassadors to the Holy Roman Empire 2 Ambassadors to the German Confederation 3 Ambassadors to German states 4 Ambassadors to the German Empire and Germany 1871 1939 5 Ambassadors to West Germany 6 Ambassadors to East Germany 7 Ambassadors to post reunification Germany 8 See also 9 ReferencesAmbassadors to the Holy Roman Empire editThis section is about France s envoys to the Perpetual Diet at Regensburg 1663 1806 For France s ambassadors to the Holy Roman Imperial Court see list of ambassadors of France to Austria nbsp The former French Legation to the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg1630 1633 Francois Leclerc du Tremblay 1 1653 1654 Francois Cazet de Vautorte 1658 1674 Robert de Gravel 1679 1688 Louis de Verjus 1716 1723 Jacques Vincent Languet de Gergy 1726 1730 Theodore Chevignard de Chavigny 1741 1742 Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet de Belle Isle 1763 1772 Louis Gabriel Du Buat Nancay 1775 1780 Marc Marie de Bombelles 1797 1799 Theobald BacherAmbassadors to the German Confederation editAmbassadors to the German Confederation also accredited to the Free City of Frankfurt include 1818 1830 Charles Frederic 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 Fenelon 1810 1883 1864 1866 Edme de Reculot 1815 1891 For partial lists see footnote 2 and 3 Ambassadors to German states editThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it January 2013 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 4 nbsp Bavaria French envoys to the Bavarian Court at Munich 1624 1626 Victor Claude Alexandre de Faneau 1626 1631 Henri de Gournay de Marcheville 1631 1632 Hercule de Charnace 1679 1680 Charles Colbert de Croissy 1687 1688 Claude Louis Hector de Villars 1743 1745 Daniel Francois de Gelas de Lautrec 1745 1746 Theodore Chevignard de Chavigny 1746 1748 Armand de Vignerot du Plessis 1748 1755 Francois de Baschi 1755 1756 Hubert de Folard 1756 1757 Louis Gabriel Du Buat Nancay 1776 1776 Francois Barbe Marbois 1777 1778 Anne Cesar de La Luzerne 1780 1789 Messire Louis de Montezan 1792 1792 Frederic Flamen d Assigny 1798 1799 Charles Jean Marie Alquier 1803 1809 Louis Guillaume Otto 1810 1814 Louis de Narbonne Lara 1814 1816 Jules de Polignac 1816 1820 Auguste Delagarde 1821 1826 Louis Toussaint de la Moussaye 1827 1831 Marie Theodore de Rumigny 1832 1833 Charles Joseph Bresson 1833 1834 Alfred de Vaudreuil 1835 1849 Paul Charles Amable de Bourgoing 1850 1851 Edouard Thouvenel 1880 1882 Gustave Olivier Lannes de Montebello 1888 1896 Camille Barrere 1897 1904 Jules Henrys d Aubigny 1904 1907 Alfred Chilhaud Dumaine 1907 1909 Ernest Rene Joseph Adrien Bourgarel 1909 1914 Henri Allize 1920 1924 Emile Dard 1924 1933 Charles Francois de Paule Lefevre d Ormesson 1933 1934 Aime Leroy nbsp Cologne French envoys to the Cologne Court at Bonn 1758 1760 Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil nbsp Hamburg French envoys to Lubeck Bremen and Hamburg 1637 1642 Claude de Mesmes 1661 1675 Pierre Bidal d Asfeld 1768 1770 Emmanuel Marie Louis de Noailles 1788 1790 Jean Francois de Bourgoing 1795 1805 Charles Frederic Reinhard 1805 1810 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1825 1829 Jean Baptiste Gaspard Roux de Rochelle nbsp Prussia French envoys to the Brandenburg Prussian Court at Berlin 1614 1614 Jean Hotman Marquis de Villers St Paul 1655 1656 Antoine de Lumbres 1660 1661 Charles Colbert de Croissy 1661 1661 Hugues de Lionne 1679 1679 Simon Arnauld Marquis de Pomponne 1715 1715 Jean Baptiste Colbert Marquess of Torcy 1732 1739 Jacques Joachim Trotti marquis de La Chetardie 1740 1748 Louis Guy Henri de Valori 1750 1752 Richard Francis Talbot 1756 1756 Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini 1768 1769 Adrien Louis de Bonnieres 1790 1791 Elenor Francois Elie Comte de Moustier 1798 1799 Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes 1799 1800 Louis Guillaume Otto 1800 1802 Pierre de Ruel marquis de Beurnonville 1802 1804 Louis Pierre Edouard Baron Bignon 1805 1806 Antoine de Laforet 1799 1806 Geraud Duroc special envoy 1808 1813 Antoine Marie Philippe Asinari de Saint Marsan 1814 1816 Louis Charles Victor de Riquet de Caraman 1816 1821 Charles Francois Marquis de Bonnay 1821 1822 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand 1822 1824 Maximilien Gerard de Rayneval 1824 1825 Paul Charles Amable de Bourgoing 1825 1828 Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard de Saint Priest 1828 1831 Hector Philippe comte d Agoult 1831 1831 Carel Hendrik Ver Huell 1831 1831 Charles comte de Flahaut 1833 1834 Charles Joseph comte Bresson 1843 1849 Napoleon Hector Soult marquis of Dalmatia 1849 1849 Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin duc de Persigny 1849 1850 Emmanuel Arago 1850 1851 Alexandre comte de Lurde 1851 1853 Armand Lefebvre 1853 1859 Lionel de Moustier 1859 1862 Godefroi de La Tour d Auvergne Lauraguais 1863 1864 Charles de Talleyrand Perigord 1864 1870 Vincent Benedetti nbsp Saxony French envoys to the Saxon Court at Dresden 1815 1816 Joseph Fouche 1816 1817 Marc Rene count of Montalambert 1816 1817 1818 Edouard Dillon 1818 1820 Victor de Fay de La Tour Maubourg 1820 1827 Marie Theodore de Rumigny 1827 1830 Georges de Riquet de Caraman 1830 1832 Charles Frederic Reinhard 1832 1835 Paul Charles Amable de BourgoingAt the time of the German Confederation additional missions were opened in Baden Hanover Hesse Kassel Hesse Darmstadt Nassau and Wurttemberg 2 3 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 edit nbsp Ambassador Andre Francois Poncet with German field marshal Erhard MilchFor main sources for this section see footnote 5 and 6 Start of term End of term Ambassador1872 1877 Elie de Gontaut Biron 7 1877 1881 Raymond de Saint Vallier1881 1886 Alphonse Chodron de Courcel1886 1896 Jules Gabriel Herbette1896 1902 Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles1902 1907 Georges Paul Louis Bihourd1907 1914 Jules Cambon1914 1920 Break in diplomatic relations during World War I and its aftermathJune 1920 December 1922 Charles Francois Laurent 8 1922 1931 Pierre de Margerie1931 1938 Andre Francois Poncet1938 1939 Robert CoulondreAmbassadors to West Germany editFor main sources for this section see footnote 9 and 10 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 Ambassador1949 1955 Andre Francois Poncet Allied High Commissioner from 1949 to 1955 and ambassador after August 1 1955 1955 1956 Louis Joxe1956 1958 Maurice Couve de Murville1958 1962 Francois Seydoux de Clausonne1962 1965 Roland de Margerie1965 1970 Francois Seydoux de Clausonne1970 1974 Jean Sauvagnargues1974 1977 Olivier Wormser1977 1981 Jean Pierre Brunet1981 1983 Henri Froment Meurice1983 1986 Jacques Morizet1986 1992 Serge Boidevaix German reunification occurred in 1990 Ambassadors to East Germany editFor the main source for this section see footnote 9 and 10 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 1973 1974 Jacques Jessel Charge d Affaires 1974 1976 Bernard Guillier de Chalvron1976 1981 Henry Bayle1981 1981 Xavier du Cauze de Nazelle 11 1981 1986 Maurice Deshors 12 1986 1990 German reunification Joelle TimsitAmbassadors to post reunification Germany editFor main sources for this section see footnote 9 and 10 Start of term End of term Ambassador1986 1992 Serge Boidevaix German reunification occurred in 1990 1992 1993 Bertrand Dufourcq1993 1999 Francois Scheer1999 2007 Claude Martin2007 2011 Bernard de Montferrand2011 2014 Maurice Gourdault Montagne2014 2017 Philippe Etienne2017 2022 Anne Marie Descotes2022 Francois Delattre 13 See also editFrance Germany relationsReferences edit Le Bas Philippe 1844 France Dictionnaire encyclopedique in French Paris Firmin Didot freres p 893 a b Count Guillaume de Garden 1861 Repertoire diplomatique annales du droit des gens et de la politique exterieure in French J Claye pp 45 46 2nd volume a b Ministry of Foreign Affairs France 1887 X Ambassadeurs envoyes extraordinaires etc de France a l etranger de 1815 a 1855 Annuaire diplomatique et consulaire de la Republique Francaise in French Vol 9 Paris Imprimerie Nationale p 321 Le Bas Philippe 1844 France Dictionnaire encyclopedique in French Paris Firmin Didot freres Aballea Marion 2012 Entre soumission politico administrative et gout de l initiative individuelle les diplomates francais en poste a Berlin de 1871 aux annees 1930 L Europe nouvelles approches in French Editions L Harmattan pp 9 28 ISBN 9782296966864 Retrieved 20 January 2013 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 Resigned in December 1877 Joly Herve 2012 Les dirigeants des grandes entreprises industrielles francaises au 20e siecle Des notables aux gestionnaires Vingtieme Siecle Revue d histoire in French 2 114 25 doi 10 3917 vin 114 0016 retrieved 2017 10 17 a b c Liste chronologique des representants permanents de la France avec rang d ambassadeur aupres de commissions organisations et conferences internationales PDF in French Ministry of Foreign Affairs France p 37 Retrieved 17 December 2012 a b c 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 Decret du 5 janvier 1981 in French Journal officiel de la Republique francaise 7 January 1981 Retrieved 14 January 2013 Decret du 9 septembre 1981 in French Journal officiel de la Republique francaise 11 September 1981 Retrieved 14 January 2013 Philippe Ricard 31 July 2022 Le chasse croise des ambassadeurs renouvelle la direction du ministere des affaires etrangeres Le Monde Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of ambassadors of France to Germany amp oldid 1190535598, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
