List of ambassadors of Sweden to Germany

The Ambassador of Sweden to Germany (known formally as the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Federal Republic of Germany) is the official representative of the government of Sweden to the president of Germany and government of Germany.

Ambassador of Sweden to Germany
Lesser coat of arms of the Kingdom of Sweden
Incumbent Veronika Wand-Danielsson since August 2023
Ministry for Foreign Affairs Swedish Embassy, Berlin
Style	His or Her Excellency (formal) Mr. or Madam Ambassador (informal)
Reports to	Minister for Foreign Affairs
Residence	Pücklerstraße 42–44, Dahlem
Seat	Berlin, Germany
Appointer	Government of Sweden
Term length	No fixed term
Inaugural holder	Carl Gustaf Friesendorff
Formation	1705
Website	Swedish Embassy, Berlin

Electorate of Brandenburg (1157–1815)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Anders Leijonstedt	1698–1700	Envoy extraordinary		[1]

Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1692–1814)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Carl Gustaf Friesendorff	1705–1710	Envoy extraordinary		[2]

Hannover

• 1699 Henning von Strahlenheim
• 1699–1711 Carl Gustaf Friesendorff

Lower Saxon Circle

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Bengt Faxell	11 September 1769 – ?	Minister	In Hamburg. Instruction 20 November 1769, letter of credence 22 January 1770.	[3]

Free City of Frankfurt (1372–1806)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Nikolaus von Haren	1741 – 20 April 1752	Envoy extraordinary	In Frankfurt am Main	[4]

Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (1510–1815)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Anton Reinhold Wrangel	13 July 1836 – 1841	Chargé d'affaires		[5]
Anton Reinhold Wrangel	1841 – 22 September 1855	Resident minister	In Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck as well as at the grand ducal courts of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz.	[5]

Imperial City of Regensburg

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Georg von Snoilsky	1663 – 20 January 1672	Resident	Died in office.	[6]
Nikolaus von Haren	122 April 1734 – 1737	Chargé d'affaires		[4]
Nikolaus von Haren	23 June 1737 – 1741	Envoy		[4]
Knut Reinhold Bildt	1795–?	Envoy		[7]

Kingdom of Bavaria (1806–1825)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Carl August Järta	22 April 1850 – 4 March 1852	Chargé d'affaires	In Munich. Accredited from Vienna.	[8]

Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Anders Leijonstedt	1703–1710	Envoy extraordinary		[9]
Johan Rosenhane	27 December 1704 – 1707	Ambassador	In Berlin.	[10]
Carl Gustaf Friesendorff	11 June 1712 – 13 September 1715	Minister plenipotentiary	Died in office during the Siege of Stralsund.	[2]
Mr Kirbach	1719	?
Carl Posse	24 March 1720 – 1724	Envoy extraordinary		[11]
Henning Gyllenborg	1743	?
Carl Gustaf Tessin	1744–1745	Ambassador	In Berlin.	[12]
Gustaf Wulfvenstierna	18 July 1748 – 9 May 1758	Envoy	Died in office (on his way home to Sweden).	[13]
Gustaf Adam von Nolcken	12 September 1757 – 1761	Chargé d'affaires	In Berlin.	[14]
Otto Jacob Zöge von Manteuffel	5 March 1766 – 1782	Envoy extraordinary		[15]
Carl Eherenfried von Carisien	June 1787 – 21 November 1794	Envoy extraordinary	Died in office.	[16]
Carl Fredrik von Heland	1790–?	Chargé d'affaires	In Dresden.	[17]
Carl Gustaf Schultz von Ascheraden	29 August 1795 – 22 March 1798	Minister	Died in office.	[18]
Lars von Engeström	6 April 1798 – 5 September 1803	Minister	In Berlin.	[19]
Nils Gustaf Palin	1800–1805	Chargé d'affaires	In Dresden.	[20]
Karl Gustaf von Brinkman	June 1803 – September 1803	Chargé d'affaires	In Berlin.	[21]
Karl Gustaf von Brinkman	November 1803 – June 1805	Chargé d'affaires	In Berlin.	[21]
Karl Gustaf von Brinkman	12 May 1807 – 7 March 1808	Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary	At the Prussian court in Memel.	[21]
Vilhelm August Kantzow	30 April 1821 – 1822	Chargé d'affaires ad interim	In Berlin.	[22]
Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d'Ohsson	October 1834 – 25 September 1850	Envoy	In Berlin and Dresden.	[23]
Carl Hochschild	25 September 1850 – 1854	Envoy	In Berlin.	[24]
Carl von und zu Mansbach	1855–1857	?
Carl August Järta	16 December 1858 – 13 January 1865	Envoy	In Berlin, Dresden and Mecklenburg. Died in office.	[8]

Electorate of Saxony (1356–1806)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Gustaf Zülich	1729–1732	?
Johan August Greiffenheim	1747–1749	Minister	Also minister at the Polish court.	[25]
Ulric Celsing	7 November 1782 – 19 April 1787	Envoy	In Dresden.	[26][27]
Fredrik von Ehrenheim	19 April 1787 – 1790	Chargé d'affaires	In Dresden.	[28]
Jacob Gustaf De la Gardie	15 August 1795 – January 1796	Envoy en mission spéciale	To the Saxon court.	[29]

German Empire (1871–1918)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Frederik Georg Knut Due	October 1869 – November 1873	Envoy		[30]
Gillis Bildt	3 March 1874 – 21 August 1886	Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary	In Berlin, also in Dresden on 21 April 1875, and in Karlsruhe on 27 April 1881.	[31]
Alfred Lagerheim	29 October 1886 – 1899	Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary	In Berlin, Karlsruhe, and Dresden. In Munich from 28 May 1890.	[32]
Arvid Taube	28 February 1900 – 30 April 1909	Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary	Imperial German as well as the Bavarian, Saxon, and Baden courts.	[33][34]
Eric Trolle	30 April 1909 – 1912	Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary	Imperial German as well as the Bavarian, Saxon, and Baden courts.	[35]
Arvid Taube	1 April 1912 – 14 October 1916	Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary	Died in office.	[33]
Hans-Henrik von Essen	13 February 1917 – 1918	Ministre plénipotentiaire en misson spéciale	In Berlin, Dresden, Karlsruhe, Munich, and Stuttgart.	[36]

Weimar Republic (1918–1933)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Hans-Henrik von Essen	20 June 1919 – 1920	Minister plenipotentiary en misson spéciale	To the German Reich.	[36]
Patrik Reuterswärd	1920–1920	Chargé d'affaires ad interim		[37]
Hans-Henrik von Essen	14 May 1920 – 31 January 1923	Envoy	To the German Reich. Died in office.	[36]
Patrik Reuterswärd	1921–1921	Chargé d'affaires ad interim		[37]
Fredrik Ramel	23 February 1923 – 1925	Envoy		[38]
Einar af Wirsén	26 September 1926 – 1937	Envoy		[39]

Nazi Germany (1933–1945)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Arvid Richert	29 January 1937 – 23 April 1945	Envoy		[40]

West Germany (1949–1990)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Ragnar Kumlin	1951–1956	Ambassador		[41]
Ole Jödahl	1956–1967	Ambassador		[42]
Nils Montan	1967–1972	Ambassador		[43]
Sven Backlund	1972–1983	Ambassador		[44]
Lennart Eckerberg	1983–1990	Ambassador		[45]

East Germany (1949–1990)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Carl Johan Rappe	1973–1976	Ambassador		[46]
Eric Virgin	1976−1982	Ambassador		[47]
Rune Nyström	1982–1985	Ambassador		[48]
Henrik Liljegren	1985–1989	Ambassador		[49]
Vidar Hellners	1989–1990	Ambassador		[50]

Federal Republic of Germany (1990–present)

Name	Period	Title	Notes	Ref
Torsten Örn	1990–1994	Ambassador		[51]
Örjan Berner	1994–1996	Ambassador		[52]
Mats Hellström	1996–2001	Ambassador		[53]
Carl Tham	2002–2006	Ambassador		[54]
Ruth Jacoby	2006–2010	Ambassador		[55]
Staffan Carlsson	2010–2015	Ambassador
Lars Danielsson	2015–2017	Ambassador		[56]
Per Thöresson	March 2017 – 2023	Ambassador		[57]
Veronika Wand-Danielsson	August 2023 – present	Ambassador		[58]

See also

• Germany–Sweden relations
• Embassy of Sweden, Berlin
• List of ambassadors of Germany to Sweden