The list of German ambassadors in South Africa contains all charge d'affaires of the German Empire and the Federal Republic of Germany in South Africa.
An envoy, as chargé d'affaires, was sent for the first time in 1955, previously Consuls general, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The ambassador also has jurisdiction over Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and Lesotho. The current headquarters of the embassy is in Pretoria.[1] Before 1928, the headquarters of the Consulate General was Cape Town.
| Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ernst Bieber | 1885 | 1888 | ||
| Ernst Heinrich von Treskow | 1889 | 1895 | ||
| Bruno von Schuckmann | 1895 | 1899 | ||
| Heinrich Johann Focke | 1899 | 1901 | ||
| Friedrich von Lindequist | 1901 | 1905 | ||
| Hans Paul von Humboldt-Dachroeden | 1905 | 1914 | ||
| Alex Bernhard Tigges | 1928 | 1929 | ||
| Paul Roh | 1929 | 1933 | Consul General 1st Class | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm von Keßler | 1931 | 1933 | Consul General, Chargé d’Affaires[2] | |
| Emil Wiehl | 1933 | 1937 | [3] | |
| Rudolf Leitner | 1937 | 1939 | ||
| Name | Image | Term Start | Term End | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rudolf Holzhausen | 1951 | 1954 | 1951: Consul General; 1952: Envoy; 1954: Ambassador | ||
| Gustav Strohm | 1955 | 1957 | |||
| Hans Ulrich Granow | 1958 | 1961 | |||
| Karl Overbeck | 1961 | 1963 | |||
| Werner Junker | 1963 | 1967 | |||
| Gustav Adolf Sonnenhol | 1968 | 1971 | |||
| Erich Strätling | 1971 | 1976 | |||
| Hans-Joachim Eick | 1976 | 1980 | |||
| Ekkehard Eickhoff | 1980 | 1983 | |||
| Carl Lahusen | 1985 | 1986 | |||
| Fritz Ziefer | 1987 | 1987 | Counselor, Chargé d'Affaires | ||
| Immo Stabreit | 1987 | 1992 | |||
| Hans-Christian Ueberschaer | 1992 | 1995 | |||
| Uwe Kaestner | 1995 | 1998 | |||
| Harald Ganns | 1998 | 2000 | |||
| Anna-Margareta Peters | 2000 | 2003 | |||
| Harro Adt | 2004 | 2007 | |||
| Dieter W. Haller | 2007 | 2011 | |||
| Horst Freitag | 2011 | 2015 | |||
| Walter Johannes Lindner | 2015 | 2017 | |||
| Martin Schäfer | 2017 | 2021 | |||
| Andreas Peschke | 2021 | Present | [4] [5] |