U.S. Embassy & Consulates
in Germany

Chiefs of Mission

(source: Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State)

• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
  Minister Plenipotentiary, December 5, 1797–May 5, 1801
• Henry Wheaton (1785–1848)
  Chargé d’Affaires, June 9, 1835–September 29, 1837
• Henry Wheaton (1785–1848)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 29, 1837–July 18, 1846
• Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799–1871)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 18, 1846–June 9, 1849
• Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799–1871)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 13, 1848–November 2, 1849
• Edward A. Hannegan (1807–1859)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 30, 1849–January 13, 1850
• Daniel Dewey Barnard (1797–1861)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, December 10, 1850–September 21, 1853
• Peter Dumont Vroom (1791–1873)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, November 4, 1853–August 10, 1857
• Joseph Albert Wright (1810–1867)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 3, 1857–July 1, 1861
• Norman Buel Judd (1815–1878)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 1, 1861–September 3, 1865
• Joseph Albert Wright (1810–1867)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 3, 1865–May 11, 1867
• George Bancroft (1800–1891)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 28, 1867–July 13, 1871
• George Bancroft (1800–1891)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, July 23, 1871–June 30, 1874
• John Chandler Bancroft Davis (1822–1907)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, August 28, 1874–September 26, 1877
• Bayard Taylor (1825–1878)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 7, 1878–December 19, 1878
• Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 19, 1879–August 15, 188
• Aaron Augustus Sargent (1827–1887)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, May 18, 1882–June 6, 1884
• John Adam Kasson (1822–1910)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 10, 1884–June 21, 1885
• George Hunt Pendleton (1825–1889)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 21, 1885–April 25, 1889
• William Walter Phelps (1839–1894)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, September 26, 1889–June 4, 1893
• Theodore Runyon (1822–1896)
  Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, June 4, 1893–October 26, 1893
• Theodore Runyon (1822–1896)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 26, 1893–January 27, 1896
• Edwin Fuller Uhl (1841–1901)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 3, 1896–June 8, 1897
• Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 12, 1897–November 27, 1902
• Charlemagne Tower (1848–1923)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 19, 1902–June 8, 1908
• David Jayne Hill (1850–1932)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 14, 1908–September 2, 1911
• John G.A. Leishman (1857–1924)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 24, 1911–October 4, 1913
• James Watson Gerard III (1867–1951)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 29, 1913–February 3, 1917
• Ellis Loring Dresel (1865–1925)
  Chargé d’Affaires, December 10, 1921–April 18, 1922
• Alanson Bigelow Houghton (1863–1941)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 22, 1922–February 21, 1925
• Jacob Gould Schurman (1854–1942)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 29, 1925–January 21, 1930
• Frederic Mosley Sackett (1868–1941)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 12, 1930–March 24, 1933
• William Edward Dodd (1869–1940)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 30, 1933–December 29, 1937
• Hugh Robert Wilson (1885–1946)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, March 3, 1938–November 16, 1938
• Alexander Comstock Kirk (1888–1979)
  Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, May 1939–October 1940
• Leland Burnette Morris (1886–1950)
  Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, October 1940–December 11, 1941
• James Bryant Conant (1893–1978)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 14, 1955–February 19, 1957
• David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898–1977)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 17, 1957–October 29, 1959
• Walter Cecil Dowling (1905–1977)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 3, 1959–April 21, 1963
• George Crews McGhee (1912–2005)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 18, 1963–May 21, 1968
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 27, 1968–January 14, 1969
• Kenneth Rush (1910–1994)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, July 22, 1969–February 20, 1972
• Martin Joseph Anthony Hillenbrand (1915–2005)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 27, 1972–October 18, 1976
• Walter John Stoessel Jr. (1920–1986)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 27, 1976–January 5, 1981
• Arthur Frank Burns (1904–1987)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, June 30, 1981–May 16, 1985
• Richard R. Burt (1947–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 16, 1985–February 17, 1989
• Vernon A. Walters (1917–2002)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 24, 1989–August 18, 1991
• Robert Michael Kimmitt (1947–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 5, 1991–August 28, 1993
• Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (1941–2010)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 19, 1993–September 12, 1994
• Charles Edgar Redman (1943–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 31, 1994–June 17, 1996
• James D. Bindenagel (1949–)
  Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, June 1996–September 1997
• John Christian Kornblum (1943–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 10, 1997–January 16, 2001
• Daniel Ray Coats (1943–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 12, 2001–February 28, 2005
• William Robert Timken Jr. (1938–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 2, 2005–December 5, 2008
• Philip D. Murphy (1957–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 3, 2009–August 26, 2013
• John Bonnell Emerson (1954–)
  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, August 26, 2013–January 20, 2017
• Kent Logsdon
  Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, January 2017–May 2018
• Richard A. Grenell
  Ambassador 2018-2020
• Robin Quinville
  Chargée d’Affaires ad interim, 2020–2021
• Woodward Clark Price
  Chargée d’Affaires ad interim, 2021–

Additional Resources

• Chiefs of Mission for German Democratic Republic
• Other Nominees, nomination rejected by the Senate/not acted upon by the Senate.