The list of German ambassadors to New Zealand includes the ambassadors of the Federal Republic of Germany to New Zealand.
German-New Zealand relations began with the establishment of the embassy in 1953. In 1964 the embassy was rededicated as an embassy. The German ambassador in Wellington is also accredited for the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu.[1]
Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes | |
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Erich Boltze | 1953 | 1956 | Envoy | ||
Herbert Conrad Nöhring | 1957 | 1965 | Envoy | ||
Heinrich Köhler | 1965 | 1968 | |||
Kurt Luedde-Neurath | 1968 | 1970 | |||
Eckard Briest | 1970 | 1974 | |||
Otto Soltmann | 1974 | 1978 | |||
Karl Döring | 1978 | 1979 | |||
Hans Alfred Steger | 1980 | 1985 | |||
Horst Becker | 1985 | 1989 | |||
Gerhard Weber | 1989 | 1995 | |||
Eberhard Nöldeke | 1995 | 2000 | |||
Guido Heymer | 2000 | 2002 | |||
Erich Riedler | 2002 | 2005 | |||
Jörg Zimmermann | 2005 | 2009 | |||
Thomas Hermann Meister | 2009 | 2012 | |||
Anne-Marie Schleich | 2012 | 2016 | |||
Gerhard Thiedemann | 2016 | 2019 | |||
Stefan Krawielicki | 2019 | 2022 | |||
Michael Feiner | 2022 | Chargé d’affaires | |||
Nicole Menzenbach | 2022 | Present | [2] |