List of ambassadors of Germany to Russia

Ambassador of Germany to Russia
Deutscher Botschafter in Russland
Incumbent Alexander Graf Lambsdorff since 2023
Residence	Moscow

Ambassadors

Ambassador of the German Empire to the Russian Empire (1871–1914)

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Heinrich VII, Prince Reuss of Köstritz		1868	1876	[citation needed]
Hans Lothar von Schweinitz		1876	1891	[1]
Bernhard von Werder		1892	1895	[2]
Hugo Fürst von Radolin		1895	1901	[3]
Friedrich Johann von Alvensleben		1901	1905	[4]
Wilhelm von Schoen		1905	1907	[5]
Friedrich von Pourtalès		1907	1914

Interruption due to World War I. Both the German Empire and Russian Empire was dissolved soon after.

German Ambassadors to the Soviet Union (1918–1991)

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Wilhelm von Mirbach		1918	1918	Assassinated in Moscow by Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.[6]
Vacant		1918	1921
Kurt Wiedenfeld		1921	1922	[7]
Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau		1922	1928	[8]
Herbert von Dirksen		1928	1933	[9]
Rudolf Nadolny		1933	1934	[10]
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg		1934	1941	[11]
Interruption in relations due to World War II and the Occupation of Germany. Ambassadors listed here until 1991 were from West Germany.
Wilhelm Haas		1956	1958	First ambassador since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations.[12]
Hans Kroll		1958	1962
Horst Groepper		1962	1966	[13]
Gebhardt von Walther		1966	1968	[citation needed]
Helmut Allardt		1968	1972	[14]
Ulrich Sahm		1972	1977	[citation needed]
Hans-Georg Wieck		1977	1980	[15]
Andreas Meyer-Landrut		1980	1983	[16]
Hansjörg Kastl		1983	1987
Andreas Meyer-Landrut		1987	1989	[17]
Klaus Blech		1989	1993	[citation needed]

Ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation (1993–present)

Name	Image	Term Start	Term End	Notes
Otto von der Gablentz		1993	1995	[citation needed]
Ernst-Jörg von Studnitz		1995	2002	[18]
Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz		2002	2005	[19]
Walter Jürgen Schmid		2005	2010	[citation needed]
Ulrich Brandenburg		2010	2013	[20]
Rüdiger Freiherr von Fritsch		2014	2019	[21]
Géza Andreas von Geyr		2019	2023	[22]
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff		2023	Present	[23]

See also

• Embassy of Germany, Moscow
• Russian Ambassador to Germany