The List of German ambassadors in Egypt contains all German ambassadors in Egypt, including their predecessors such as Prussian consuls. The embassy is in the capital Cairo.
The Federal Republic of Germany established diplomatic relations with Egypt in 1952. Between May 1965 and June 1972 the embassy was closed and diplomatic relations were broken off. During this time, the Federal Republic had diplomats with the rank of embassy councilor or legation councilor as chargé d'affaires on site. The GDR had a commercial representation from 1953, a consulate general from 1959 and an ambassador in Cairo from 1969.
| Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Brugsch | 1864 | Prussian consul in Cairo | |||
| Julius von Jasmund | 1870 | 1874 | (1827–1879)[1] | ||
| Anton Saurma von der Jeltsch | 1878 | Consul General | |||
| Eduard von Derenthall | 1882 | Consul General | |||
| Otto L. Schmidt-Leda | 1885 | ||||
| Casimir von Leyden | 1894 | Consul General | |||
| Oswald von Richthofen | 1885 | 1896 | German representative at the public debt administration of Egypt in Cairo (The German Debt Commissioner in Cairo) | ||
| Maximilian von Loehr | 1894 | ||||
| Jakob Johannes Schneller | 1901 | 1901 | |||
| Theodor Bumiller | 1902 | Freiherr von Humboldt headed the consulate in Alexandria | |||
| Hartmann von Richthofen | 1903 | 1904 | chargé d’Affaires | ||
| Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff | 1906 | 1908 | |||
| Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg | 1908 | 1912 | |||
| Padel von Kulemann | 1916 | [2] | |||
| 1923: Re-establishment of a German diplomatic mission in Egypt (the Kingdom of Egypt existed from 1922 to 1952) | |||||
| Eberhard von Stohrer | 1926 | 1935 | |||
| Wernher von Ow-Wachendorf | 1936 | 1939 | |||
| 1952: Establishment of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Egypt | |||||
| Günther Pawelke | 1952 | 1954 | [3] | ||
| Rudolf Holzhausen | 1955 | 1955 | chargé d’affaires | ||
| Walther Becker | 1955 | 1959 | |||
| Walter Weber | 1959 | 1964 | |||
| Georg Federer | 1964 | 1965 | |||
| 1965: Breaking off diplomatic relations | |||||
| Horst Hauthal | 1965 | 1966 | Legation Councilor 1st Class, chargé d'Affaires | ||
| Lothar Lahn | 1966 | 1969 | Embassy counselor, chargé d'affaires | ||
| Walter Jesser | 1969 | 1972 | Envoy; chargé d’Affaires | ||
| 1972: Resumption of diplomatic relations | |||||
| Hans-Georg Steltzer | 1972 | 1978 | |||
| Wolfgang Behrends | 1978 | 1979 | |||
| Hans-Joachim Hille | 1979 | 1982 | |||
| Kurt Müller | 1982 | 1986 | |||
| Martin Elsässer | 1986 | 1990 | |||
| Heinz Fiedler | 1990 | 1993 | |||
| Wolf-Dietrich Schilling | 1993 | 1998 | |||
| Peter Dingens | 1998 | 2000 | |||
| Paul von Maltzahn | 2000 | 2003 | |||
| Martin Kobler | 2003 | 2006 | |||
| Bernd Erbel | 2006 | 2009 | |||
| Michael Bock | 2009 | 2014 | |||
| 2014 | 2015 | ||||
| Julius Georg Luy | 2015 | 2019 | |||
| Cyrill Jean Nunn | 2019 | 2021 | |||
| Frank Hartmann | 2021 | Present | |||