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 theThird Reich , including those with the ranks of envoy (Gesandter ), ambassador (Botschafter ) consul and consul general as well as chargé d'affaires (Geschäftsträger )
Abyssinia
Afghanistan
Albania
Argentina
Austria
Belgium
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Envoy)
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
China and theReorganized National Government of the Republic of China [ 2]
Consul General inCanton
Felix Alternburg (1934–1938) Franz Siebert (1939–1945) Consul General inHankou
Consul inJinan
Franz Siebert (1925–1938) Consul General inNanjing
Consul inQingdao
Consul General inShanghai
Consul General inTienstin
Colombia
Erdmann Karl Maria von Podewils-Dürniz (1928–1934) Werner von Hentig (1934–1936) Wolfgang Dittler (1936–1941) Croatia , Independent State of
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Walter Koch (1920–1935) Ernst Eisenlohr (1935–1938) Andor Hencke [de ] (1938–1939)Danzig ,Free City of
Denmark
Ecuador
Karl Pistor (1932–1936) Eugen Klee (1936–1942) Egypt
Estonia
Otto Reinebeck (1932–1936) Hans Frohwein(1936–1940) Finland
France
Consul General inAlgiers
Erich Windels (1926–1934) Hermann Terdenge (1934–1937) Johannes Erhard Richter (1937–1939) Consul General inDamascus
Consul inHanoi
Consul General in Marseille
Greece
Guatemala
Holy See
Hungary
Iceland
Iraq
Ireland
Georg Dehn-Schmidt (1923–1934) Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1934–1937) Eduard Hempel (1937–1945)Italy and theItalian Social Republic
Consul General inGenoa
Consul General inMilan
Consul General inNaples
Consul General inTripoli
Gebhardt von Walther (1941–1943) Japan
Consul General inKobe
Wagner (-1938) August Balser (1938–1945) Consul General inYokohama
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
Consul General inMukden
Consul General inDairen
Mexico
Heinrich Rüdt von Collenberg (1933–1941) Monaco
Netherlands
Julius von Zech-Burkersroda (1928–1940) Otto Bene (1940–1945) Consul General inBatavia
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 Freytag1933–1934 Oswald Baron von Hoyningen-Huene 1934–1945 Gustav Adolph von Halem (1945) Romania
Saudi Arabia
Slovak Republic
Spain
Consul General in Barcelona
Consul inVigo
Sweden
Switzerland
Tangier International Zone
Thailand
Turkey
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
Consul General inBatum
United Kingdom
Consul General inCalcutta
Werner von Ow-Wachendorf (1933–1936) Erdmann von Podewils-Dürnitz (1936–1939) Consul General inHong Kong
Hermann Gipperich (1933–1939) Consul General inJerusalem
Consul General inMontreal andOttawa (relocated in 1937)
Ludwig Kempff (1922–1935) Henry Schafhausen (1935–1937) Erich Windels (1937–1939) Consul General inPretoria
Friedrich Wilhelm von Keßler (1931–1933) Emil Wiehl (1933–1937) Rudolf Leitner (1937–1939) Consul General inSingapore
Walther Maenns (1931–1938) Adolf von Windecker (1938–1939) Consul General inSydney
Consul General inWellington
United States
Consul inBoston
Herbert Scholz (1933–1941) Consul inChicago
Georg Krause-Wichmann (1939–1941) Consul General inCleveland
Hans Borchers (1926–1933) Karl Kapp (1936–1941) Consul General inLos Angeles
Consul General inNew Orleans
Consul General inNew York
Hans Borchers (1933–1941) Consul General inPhiladelphia
Erich Windels (1939–1941) Consul General inSan Francisco
Consul General inSan Juan
Consul General inSt. Louis
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
Viktor von Heeren (1933–1941) FromTobias 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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