The German foreign office (Auswärtiges Amt (AA)) had a sizable network of diplomatic missions when Nazis came to power in 1933. While it was a deeply traditional and elitist organisation within the German civil service, it enthusiastically helped the Nazis prosecute an ambitious foreign policy.

Listed here are the ambassadors and other senior diplomats of the AA during the Third Reich, including those with the ranks of envoy (Gesandter), ambassador (Botschafter) consul and consul general as well as chargé d'affaires (Geschäftsträger)

Abyssinia

  • Wilhelm Albrecht von Schoen (1932–1935)
  • Hans Kirchholtes (1935–1936)

Afghanistan

  • Kurt Max Paul Ziemke (1933–1936)
  • Hans Pilger (1937–1945)

Albania

  • Erich von Luckwald (1930-1936)
  • Eberhard von Pannwitz (1936-1941)
  • Martin Schliep (1941-1944)

Argentina

  • Edmund Freiherr von Thermann (1933–1942)
  • Erich Otto Meynen (1942–1944)

Austria

Belgium

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Envoy)

  • Werner Gerlach (1942-1943)
  • Erich von Luckwald (1943-1945)

Bolivia

  • Maximilian König (1932–1936)
  • Ernst Wendler (1938–1942)

Brazil

Bulgaria

  • Eugen Rümelin (1923–1939)
  • Herbert von Richthofen (1939–1941)
  • Adolf-Heinz Beckerle (1941–1944)

Chile

  • Hans Kurd von Reiswitz und Kaderzin (1932–1934)
  • Wilhelm Albrecht von Schoen (1936–1943)

China and the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China[2]

Consul General in Canton

  • Felix Alternburg (1934-1938)
  • Franz Siebert (1939-1945)

Consul General in Hankou

  • Enno Bracklo (1938-1947)

Consul in Jinan

  • Franz Siebert (1925-1938)

Consul General in Nanjing

  • Martin Fischer (1941-1944)

Consul in Qingdao

  • Enno Bracklo (1932-1938)

Consul General in Shanghai

  • Hermann Kriebel (1934-1937)
  • Martin Fischer (1939-1945)
  • Walther Dietrich Hoops (1945)

Consul General in Tienstin

Colombia

  • Erdmann Karl Maria von Podewils-Dürniz (1928–1934)
  • Werner von Hentig (1934–1936)
  • Wolfgang Dittler (1936–1941)

Croatia, Independent State of

Cuba

  • Hans Hermann Völckers (1937–1939)[3]

Czechoslovakia

  • Walter Koch (1920-1935)
  • Ernst Eisenlohr (1935–1938)
  • Andor Hencke (1938–1939)

Danzig, Free City of

  • Erich von Luckwald (1933-1936)
  • Otto von Radowitz (1936-1938)
  • Martin von Janson (1938-1939)

Denmark

Ecuador

  • Karl Pistor (1932–1936)
  • Eugen Klee (1936–1942)

Egypt

Estonia

  • Otto Reinebeck (1932–1936)
  • Hans Frohwein (1936–1940)

Finland

France

Consul General in Algiers

  • Erich Windels (1926–1934)
  • Hermann Terdenge (1934–1937)
  • Johannes Erhard Richter (1937–1939)

Consul General in Damascus

  • Hans Kirchholtes (1934–1935)
  • Ferdinand Sailer (1935-1939)

Consul in Hanoi

  • Wilhelm Stoller (1928-1936)
  • Neumann (1941-1942)

Consul General in Marseille

Greece

  • Ernst Eisenlohr (1931–1936)
  • Victor zu Erbach-Schönberg (1936–1941)

Guatemala

  • Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1924–1934)
  • Erich Kraske (1934–1936)
  • Otto Reinebeck (1937–1941)
  • Christian Zinsser (1941)
  • Franz Ferring (1941)

Holy See

Hungary

Iceland

  • Werner Gerlach (1939-1940)

Iraq

Ireland

  • Georg Dehn-Schmidt (1923–1934)
  • Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1934–1937)
  • Eduard Hempel (1937–1945)

Italy and the Italian Social Republic

Consul General in Genoa

  • Hans Bernard (1941-1944)

Consul General in Milan

  • Otto Bene (1937-1939)
  • Walther Wüster (1940)
  • Hans Bernard (1940-1941)

Consul General in Naples

  • Walther Wüster (1943)

Consul General in Tripoli

  • Gebhardt von Walther (1941-1943)

Japan

Consul General in Kobe

  • Wagner (-1938)
  • August Balser (1938-1945)

Consul General in Yokohama

Latvia

  • Georg Martius (1932–1934)
  • Eckhard von Schack (1934–1938)
  • Hans Ulrich von Kotze (1938–1941)

Lithuania

  • Erich Zechlin (1933-1941)

Luxembourg

  • Werner Freiherr von Ow-Wachendorf (1931-1934)
  • Erdmann Graf von Podewilz-Dürniz (1934-1936)
  • Otto von Radowitz (1936-1940)

Manchukuo

  • Wilhelm Wagner

Consul General in Mukden

  • Ernst Ramm

Consul General in Dairen

  • Ernst Bischoff

Mexico

  • Heinrich Rüdt von Collenberg (1933–1941)

Monaco

  • Walter Hellenthal (1943-1944)

Netherlands

  • Julius von Zech-Burkersroda (1928–1940)
  • Otto Bene (1940–1945)

Consul General in Batavia

  • Manfred Klaiber (1938)

Nicaragua

  • Hugo Otto Danckers (1936–1941)

Norway

Paraguay

  • Fritz Max Weiss (1933–1934)
  • Erhard Graf von Wedel (1934–1937)
  • Hans Büsing (1937–1942)

Persia/Iran

Peru

  • Heinrich Rohland (1924–1934)
  • Ernst Schmitt (1934–1938)
  • Eduard Willy Noebel (1938–1942)

Poland

Portugal

  • Hans Freytag 1933–1934
  • Oswald Baron von Hoyningen-Huene 1934–1945
  • Gustav Adolph von Halem (1945)

Romania

Saudi Arabia

Slovak Republic

Spain

Consul General in Barcelona

Consul in Vigo

  • Heribert Schwörbel (1943-1945)

Sweden

Switzerland

Tangier International Zone

  • Kurt Rieth (1941–1944)

Thailand

  • Erich August Karl Nord (1933–1935)
  • Wilhelm Thomas (1936–1941)
  • Ernst Wendler (1943–1945)

Turkey

Union of Socialist Soviet Republics

Consul General in Batum

United Kingdom

Consul General in Calcutta

  • Werner von Ow-Wachendorf (1933–1936)
  • Erdmann von Podewils-Dürnitz (1936–1939)

Consul General in Hong Kong

  • Hermann Gipperich (1933-1939)

Consul General in Jerusalem

  • Heinrich Wolff (1933-1935)
  • Walter Döhle (1935-1939)

Consul General in Montreal and Ottawa (relocated in 1937)

  • L. Kempff (1922-1935)
  • Henry Schafhausen (1935-1937)
  • Erich Windels (1937-1939)

Consul General in Pretoria

  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Keßler (1931–1933)
  • Emil Wiehl (1933–1937)
  • Rudolf Leitner (1937-1939)

Consul General in Singapore

  • Walther Maenns (1931–1938)
  • Adolf von Windecker (1938–1939)

Consul General in Sydney

Consul General in Wellington

  • Walter Hellenthal (1936–1938)

United States

Consul in Boston

  • Herbert Scholz (1933-1941)

Consul in Chicago

  • Georg Krause-Wichmann (1939-1941)

Consul General in Cleveland

  • Hans Borchers (1926-1933)
  • Karl Kapp (1936-1941)

Consul General in Los Angeles

Consul General in New Orleans

Consul General in New York

  • Hans Borchers (1933-1941)

Consul General in Philadelphia

  • Erich Windels (1939-1941)

Consul General in San Francisco

Consul General in San Juan

  • Henry Freese (-1941)

Consul General in St. Louis

  • Herbert Diel (-1941)

Venezuela

Yugoslavia

  • Viktor von Heeren (1933-1941)

From Tobias C. Bringmann (2001), Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Auswärtige Missionschefs in Deutschland und Deutsche Missionschefs im Ausland von Metternich bis Adenauer (in German), Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 20 f., ISBN 9783110956849

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