US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

US Ambassador to Germany. This list includes ambassadors to Germany after 1867, including the German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany, through to the reunified Germany of 1990. See also US Ambassador to Prussia and US Ambassador to East Germany.

23-Jul-1871	30-Jun-1874	George Bancroft
28-Aug-1874	26-Sep-1877	J. C. Bancroft Davis
07-May-1878	19-Dec-1878	Bayard Taylor	Died at post
19-Jun-1879	15-Aug-1881	Andrew D. White
18-May-1882	06-Jun-1884	A. A. Sargent
10-Sep-1884	21-Jun-1885	John A. Kasson
21-Jun-1885	25-Apr-1889	George H. Pendleton
26-Sep-1889	04-Jun-1893	William Walter Phelps
04-Jun-1893	27-Jan-1896	Theodore Runyon	Died at post
03-May-1896	08-Jun-1897	Edwin F. Uhl
12-Jun-1897	27-Nov-1902	Andrew D. White
19-Dec-1902	08-Jun-1908	Charlemagne Tower
14-Jun-1908	02-Sep-1911	David Jayne Hill
24-Oct-1911	04-Oct-1913	John G. A. Leishman
29-Oct-1913	05-Feb-1917	James W. Gerard	US severed diplomatic relations 3-Feb-1917
10-Dec-1921	18-Apr-1922	Ellis Loring Dresel
22-Apr-1922	21-Feb-1925	Alanson B. Houghton
29-Jun-1925	21-Jan-1930	Jacob Gould Schurman
12-Feb-1930	24-Mar-1933	Frederic M. Sackett
30-Aug-1933	29-Dec-1937	William E. Dodd
03-Mar-1938	16-Nov-1938	Hugh R. Wilson
May-1939	Oct-1940	Alexander C. Kirk	Interim
Oct-1940	Dec-1941	Leland B. Morris	Interim; Germany declared war 11-Dec-1941
14-May-1955	19-Feb-1957	James B. Conant
17-Apr-1957	29-Oct-1959	David K. E. Bruce
03-Dec-1959	21-Apr-1963	Walter C. Dowling
Apr-1963	May-1963	Martin J. Hillenbrand	Interim
18-May-1963	21-May-1968	George C. McGhee
27-May-1968	14-Jan-1969	Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
22-Jul-1969	20-Feb-1972	Kenneth Rush
27-Jun-1972	18-Oct-1976	Martin J. Hillenbrand
27-Oct-1976	05-Jan-1981	Walter Stoessel
30-Jun-1981	16-May-1985	Arthur F. Burns
16-Sep-1985	17-Feb-1989	Richard R. Burt
24-Apr-1989	18-Aug-1991	Vernon Walters
05-Sep-1991	28-Aug-1993	Robert M. Kimmitt
19-Oct-1993	12-Sep-1994	Richard C. Holbrooke
31-Oct-1994	17-Jun-1996	Charles Redman
Jun-1996	Sep-1997	James D. Bindenagel	Interim
10-Sep-1997	16-Jan-2001	John Kornblum
12-Sep-2001	28-Feb-2005	Daniel R. Coats
Feb-2005	Sep-2005	John A. Cloud	Interim
02-Sep-2005	--	William R. Timken, Jr.

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