The list of German ambassadors in Brazil contains the highest-ranking representatives of the North German Confederation, the German Empire and the Federal Republic of Germany in Brazil.
As early as 1867, the North German Confederation had sent a representative for diplomatic affairs to Brazil. This post was then taken over by accredited diplomats from the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich until the representation in Rio de Janeiro was converted into a full-fledged embassy in 1937. With the establishment of Brasília as the new capital, the German embassy also moved there in 1970.
| Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julius de Saint-Pierre | 1867 | 1871 | Minister-resident of the North German Confederation | ||
| Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde | 1872 | 1873 | Minister-resident of the German Empire | ||
| Xaver Uebel | 1874 | 1877 | Chargé d'affaires | ||
| Heinrich von Beust | 1877 | 1879 | |||
| Rudolf Friedrich Le Maistre | 1879 | 1886 | |||
| Otto Magnus von Dönhoff | 1886 | 1892 | |||
| Heinrich Graf von Luxburg | 1892 | 1894 | Chargé d'affaires | ||
| Friedrich Richard Krauel | 1894 | 1898 | |||
| Emmerich von Arco-Valley | 1898 | 1900 | |||
| Karl Georg von Treutler | 1901 | 1907 | |||
| Franz von Reichenau | 1907 | 1908 | |||
| Emmerich von Arco-Valley | 1909 | 1909 | |||
| Christian Gustav Michahelles | 1910 | 1913 | |||
| Adolf Pauli | 1913 | 1917 | |||
| Georg Alfred Plehn | 1920 | 1925 | |||
| Hubert Knipping | 1925 | 1932 | |||
| Arthur Schmidt-Elskop | 1933 | 1937 | Envoy | ||
| Karl Ritter | 1937 | 1938 | |||
| Curt Max Prüfer | 1939 | 1942 |
| Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fritz Oellers | 1951 | 1956 | |||
| Carl Werner Dankwort | 1956 | 1958 | |||
| Gebhardt von Walther | 1958 | 1959 | |||
| Herbert Dittmann | 1959 | 1962 | |||
| Gebhard Seelos | 1962 | 1966 | |||
| Ehrenfried von Holleben | 1966 | 1971 | Last German ambassador in Rio | ||
| Karl Hermann Knoke | 1971 | 1974 | First ambassador in the new capital Brasília | ||
| Horst Röding | 1974 | 1977 | |||
| Hansjörg Kastl | 1977 | 1980 | |||
| Franz Jochen Schoeller | 1980 | 1983 | |||
| Walter Gorenflos | 1984 | 1987 | |||
| Heinz Dittmann | 1987 | 1990 | |||
| Theodor Wallau | 1991 | 1993 | |||
| Herbert Limmer | 1993 | 1995 | |||
| Claus-Jürgen Duisberg | 1995 | 1999 | |||
| Hans-Bodo Bertram | 1999 | 2001 | |||
| Uwe Kaestner | 2001 | 2004 | |||
| Friedrich Prot von Kunow | 2004 | 2009 | |||
| Wilfried Grolig | 2010 | 2014 | |||
| Dirk Brengelmann | 2014 | 2016 | |||
| Georg Witschel | 2016 | 2020 | [1] | ||
| Heiko Thoms | 2020 | 2023 | |||
| Bettina Cadenbach | 2023 | Present | [2] [3] |