Diplomatic missions of Germany

Historically, the German state of Prussia and several smaller German states, had sent emissaries abroad prior to the establishment of the North German Confederation, the precursor to the modern State of Germany.

In 1874 Germany had only four embassies (in London, Paris, Saint Petersburg and Vienna), but this was complemented by non-ambassadorial representation in the form of 14 ministerial posts (in Athens, Bern, Brussels, The Hague, Constantinople, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Madrid, Rome, Stockholm, Peking, Rio de Janeiro, Washington and to the Holy See), seven consulates-general with diplomatic status (in Alexandria, Belgrade, Bucharest, London, New York, Budapest and Warsaw) and 37 consulates and vice-consulates headed by consular officers. By 1914 five additional embassies were had been established in Constantinople, Madrid, Rome, Washington and Tokyo. The Foreign Office progressively reformed itself in this time to serve Germany's rising commercial and colonial interests abroad, as well as to reflect the professionalisation of diplomacy generally.

Politics of the Third Reich affected the Foreign Office. In 1933 the Reich Citizenship Act led to the forced retirement of over 120 tenured civil servants. Positions and structures were created to imbed NSDAP representatives, and the SS began to be posted abroad as "police attachés". Under Joachim von Ribbentrop the Reich Foreign Ministry grew from 2,665 officers in 1938 to a peak of 6,458 in 1943, despite missions abroad closing as a consequence of the Second World War.

Germany's post-war diplomatic network started as early as 1949 with a mission in Paris to the newly-formed Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The following year consulates-general were (re)opened in London, New York, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome and Athens (until 1951 these were not embassies, as by virtue of the Occupation Statute the three allied powers had competence of foreign affairs; these consulates were intended to just manage commercial and consular affairs). West Germany's Foreign Office grew, and by the time of its reunification in 1990 there were 214 diplomatic missions abroad. Following German reunification, the federal republic inherited several diplomatic buildings of the former German Democratic Republic. [http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/AAmt/Geschichte/GeschichteAApdf.pdf]

The West German embassy in Stockholm was occupied by the Red Army Faction in 1975. In 1989 its embassies in Budapest and Prague sheltered fleeing East Germans while waiting for permission to travel onwards to West Germany; permission was subsequently given by the Czechoslovakian and Hungarian governments, accelerating the collapse of socialist hegemony in Eastern Europe.

Today Germany manages 226 diplomatic missions abroad (listed below). There are also 354 unpaid honorary consuls.

Europe

*Flag|Albania
** Tirana (Embassy)
*Flag|Armenia
** Yerevan (Embassy)
*Flag|Austria
** Vienna (Embassy)
*Flag|Azerbaijan
** Baku (Embassy)
*Flag|Belarus
** Minsk (Embassy)
*Flag|Belgium
** Brussels (Embassy)
*Flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina
** Sarajevo (Embassy)
** Banja Luka (Embassy Outpost)
*Flag|Bulgaria
** Sofia (Embassy)
*Flag|Croatia
** Zagreb (Embassy)
*Flag|Cyprus
** Nicosia (Embassy)
*Flag|Czech Republic
** Prague (Prague Embassy)
*Flag|Denmark
** Copenhagen (Embassy)
*Flag|Estonia
** Tallinn (Embassy)
*Flag|Finland
** Helsinki (Embassy)
*Flag|France
** Paris (Embassy)
** Lyon (Consulate-General)
** Marseille (Consulate-General)
** Strasbourg (Consulate-General)
** Bordeaux (Consulate)
*Flag|Georgia
** Tbilisi (Embassy)
*Flag|Greece
** Athens (Embassy)
** Thessaloniki (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Holy See
** Vatican City (Embassy)
*Flag|Hungary
** Budapest (Embassy)
*Flag|Iceland
** Reykjavík (Embassy)
*Flag|Ireland
** Dublin (Embassy)
*Flag|Italy
** Rome (Embassy)
** Milan (Consulate-General)
** Naples (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Kosovo
** Pristina (Embassy)
*Flag|Latvia
** Riga (Embassy)
*Flag|Lithuania
** Vilnius (Embassy)
*Flag|Luxembourg
** Luxembourg (Embassy)
*Flag|Macedonia
** Skopje (Embassy)
*Flag|Malta
** Valletta (Embassy)
*Flag|Moldova
** Chişinău (Embassy)
*Flag|Montenegro
** Podgorica (Embassy)
*Flag|Netherlands
** The Hague (Embassy)
** Amsterdam (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Norway
** Oslo (Embassy)
*Flag|Poland
** Warsaw (Embassy)
** Gdańsk (Consulate-General)
** Kraków (Consulate-General)
** Opole (Outpost of the Consulate-General in Wroclaw)
** Wrocław (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Portugal
** Lisbon (Embassy)
** Porto (Consulate)
*Flag|Romania
** Bucharest (Embassy)
** Sibiu (Consulate-General)
** Timişoara (Consulate)
*Flag|Russia
** Moscow (Embassy)
** Kaliningrad (Consulate-General)
** Novosibirsk (Consulate-General)
** Saint Petersburg (Consulate-General)
** Yekaterinburg (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Serbia
** Belgrade (Embassy)
*Flag|Slovakia
** Bratislava (Embassy)
*Flag|Slovenia
** Ljubljana (Embassy)
*Flag|Spain
** Madrid (Embassy)
** Barcelona (Consulate-General)
** Seville (Consulate-General)
** Málaga (Outpost of the Consulate in Seville)
** Palma de Mallorca (Consulate)
** Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Consulate)
*Flag|Sweden
** Stockholm (Embassy)
*Flag|Switzerland
** Berne (Embassy)
** Geneva (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Ukraine
** Kiev (Embassy)
*Flag|United Kingdom
** London (Embassy)
** Edinburgh (Consulate-General)

North America

*Flag|Canada
** Ottawa (Embassy)
** Montreal (Consulate-General)
** Toronto (Consulate-General)
** Vancouver (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Costa Rica
** San José (Embassy)
*Flag|Cuba
** Havana (Embassy)
*Flag|Dominican Republic
** Santo Domingo (Embassy)
*Flag|El Salvador
** San Salvador (Embassy)
*Flag|Guatemala
** Guatemala City (Embassy)
*Flag|Haiti
** Port-au-Prince (Embassy)
*Flag|Honduras
** Tegucigalpa (Embassy)
*Flag|Jamaica
** Kingston (Embassy)
*Flag|Mexico
** Mexico City (Embassy)
*Flag|Nicaragua
** Managua (Embassy)
*Flag|Panama
** Panama City (Embassy)
*Flag|Trinidad and Tobago
** Port of Spain (Embassy)
*Flag|United States
** Washington, D.C. (Embassy)
** Atlanta (Consulate-General)
** Boston (Consulate-General)
** Chicago (Consulate-General)
** Houston (Consulate-General)
** Los Angeles (Consulate-General)
** Miami (Consulate-General)
** New York (Consulate-General)
** San Francisco (Consulate-General)

outh America

*Flag|Argentina
** Buenos Aires (Embassy)
*Flag|Bolivia
** La Paz (Embassy)
*Flag|Brazil
** Brasília (Embassy)
** Porto Alegre (Consulate-General)
** Recife (Consulate-General)
** Rio de Janeiro (Consulate-General)
** São Paulo (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Chile
** Santiago (Embassy)
*Flag|Colombia
** Bogotá (Embassy)
*Flag|Ecuador
** Quito (Embassy)
*Flag|Paraguay
** Asunción (Embassy)
*Flag|Peru
** Lima (Embassy)
*Flag|Uruguay
** Montevideo (Embassy)
*Flag|Venezuela
** Caracas (Embassy)

Africa

*Flag|Algeria
** Algiers (Embassy)
*Flag|Angola
** Luanda (Embassy)
*Flag|Benin
** Cotonou (Embassy)
*Flag|Botswana
** Gaborone (Embassy)
*Flag|Burkina Faso
** Ouagadougou (Embassy)
*Flag|Burundi
** Bujumbura (Embassy)
*Flag|Cameroon
** Yaoundé (Embassy)
*Flag|Chad
** N'Djamena (Embassy)
*Flag|Côte d'Ivoire
** Abidjan (Embassy)
*Flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo
** Kinshasa (Embassy)
*Flag|Egypt
** Cairo (Embassy)
*Flag|Eritrea
** Asmara (Embassy)
*Flag|Ethiopia
** Addis Ababa (Embassy)
*Flag|Gabon
** Libreville (Embassy)
*Flag|Ghana
** Accra (Embassy)
*Flag|Guinea
** Conakry (Embassy)
*Flag|Kenya
** Nairobi (Embassy)
*Flag|Liberia
** Monrovia (Embassy)
*Flag|Libya
** Tripoli (Embassy)
*Flag|Madagascar
** Antananarivo (Embassy)
*Flag|Malawi
** Lilongwe (Embassy)
*Flag|Mali
** Bamako (Embassy)
*Flag|Mauritania
** Nouakchott (Embassy)
*Flag|Morocco
** Rabat (Embassy)
*Flag|Mozambique
** Maputo (Embassy)
*Flag|Namibia
** Windhoek (Embassy)
*Flag|Niger
** Niamey (Embassy)
*Flag|Nigeria
** Abuja (Embassy)
** Lagos (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Rwanda
** Kigali (Embassy)
*Flag|Senegal
** Dakar (Embassy)
*Flag|Sierra Leone
** Freetown (Embassy)
*Flag|South Africa
** Pretoria (Embassy)
** Cape Town (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Sudan
** Khartoum (Embassy)
*Flag|Tanzania
** Dar es Salaam (Embassy)
*Flag|Togo
** Lomé (Embassy)
*Flag|Tunisia
** Tunis (Embassy)
*Flag|Uganda
** Kampala (Embassy)
*Flag|Zambia
** Lusaka (Embassy)
*Flag|Zimbabwe
** Harare (Embassy)

Asia

*Flag|Afghanistan
** Kabul (Embassy)
** Faisalabad (Outpost of the Embassy)
** Kunduz (Outpost of the Embassy)
*Flag|Bahrain
** Manama (Embassy)
*Flag|Bangladesh
** Dhaka (Embassy)
*Flag|Brunei
** Bandar Seri Begawan (Embassy)
*Flag|Cambodia
** Phnom Penh (Embassy)
*Flag|China
** Beijing (Embassy)
** Chengdu (Consulate-General)
** Guangzhou (Consulate-General)
** Hong Kong (Consulate-General)
** Shanghai (Consulate-General)
*Flag|India
** New Delhi (Embassy)
** Chennai (Consulate-General)
** Kolkata (Consulate-General)
** Mumbai (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Indonesia
** Jakarta (Embassy)
*Flag|Iran
** Tehran (Embassy)
*Flag|Iraq
** Baghdad (Embassy)
*Flag|Israel
** Tel Aviv (Embassy)
*Flag|Japan
** Tokyo (Embassy)
** Osaka (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Jordan
** Amman (Embassy)
*Flag|Kazakhstan
** Astana (Embassy)
** Almaty (Consulate-General)
*Flag|North Korea
** Pyongyang (Embassy)
*Flag|South Korea
** Seoul (Embassy)
*Flag|Kuwait
** Kuwait City (Embassy)
*Flag|Kyrgyzstan
** Bishkek (Embassy)
*Flag|Laos
** Vientiane (Embassy)
*Flag|Lebanon
** Beirut (Embassy)
*Flag|Malaysia
** Kuala Lumpur (Embassy)
*Flag|Mongolia
** Ulan Bator (Embassy)
*Flag|Myanmar
** Yangon (Embassy)
*Flag|Nepal
** Kathmandu (Embassy)
*Flag|Oman
** Muscat (Embassy)
*Flag|Pakistan
** Islamabad (Embassy)
** Karachi (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Palestinian Authority
** Ramallah (Representative Office)
*Flag|Philippines
** Manila (Embassy)
*Flag|Qatar
** Doha (Embassy)
*Flag|Saudi Arabia
** Riyadh (Embassy)
** Jeddah (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Singapore
** Singapore (Embassy)
*Flag|Sri Lanka
** Colombo (Embassy)
*Flag|Syria
** Damascus (Embassy)
*Flag|Taiwan
** Taipei (German Institute)
*Flag|Tajikistan
** Dushanbe (Embassy)
*Flag|Thailand
** Bangkok (Embassy)
*Flag|Turkey
** Ankara (Embassy)
** Istanbul (Consulate-General)
** İzmir (Consulate-General)
** Antalya (Outpost of the Consulate in İzmir)
*Flag|Turkmenistan
** Ashgabat (Embassy)
*Flag|United Arab Emirates
** Abu Dhabi (Embassy)
** Dubai (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Uzbekistan
** Tashkent (Embassy)
*Flag|Vietnam
** Hanoi (Embassy)
** Ho Chi Minh City (Consulate-General)
*Flag|Yemen
** San‘a’ (Embassy)
** Aden (Consulate-General)

Oceania

*Flag|Australia
** Canberra (Embassy)
** Melbourne (Consulate-General)
** Sydney (Consulate-General)
*Flag|New Zealand
** Wellington (Embassy)

Multilateral Organisations

** Brussels (Permanent Mission to the European Union and NATO)
** Geneva (Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other international organisations)
** New York (Permanent Mission to the United Nations)
** Paris (Permanent Mission to the OECD and UNESCO)
** Strasbourg (Permanent Mission to the Council of Europe)
** Vienna (Permanent Mission to the OSCE)

ee also

* Foreign relations of Germany

References

* [http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/diplo/en/Startseite.html Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany]