List of ambassadors of Germany to Afghanistan

The following is a partial list of German ambassadors to Afghanistan.

Unified Germany (1870–1945)
  • Werner Otto von Hentig, 1916–1917 (legation leader)
  • Fritz Grobba, from 1923–1926
  • August Friedrich Feigel, 1926–1929
  • Leopold von Plessen, 1929
  • Heribert Otto Paul Schwörbel, 1931–1933
  • Kurt Max Paul Ziemke, 1933–1936
  • Hans Pilger, 1937–1945

East Germany (1945–1990)

The German Democratic Republic first sent an ambassador to Kabul 17 January 1973. The German Democratic ceased to exist in 1990, however.

  • Ferdinand Thun, 1973–1976
  • Klaus Wolf, 1976–1978
  • Kraft Bumbel, 1979–1981
  • Kurt Krüger, 1982–1986[1]
  • Kraft Bumbel, 1986–1989
  • Horst Lindner, 1989–1990

West Germany (1945–1990)
  • Franz Quiring, 1954–1956
  • Erich Eiswaldt, 1957–1959
  • Hans Schmidt-Horix, 1959–1963
  • Gerhard Moltmann, 1963–1969
  • Richard Breuer, 1969–1973
  • Franz Josef Hoffmann, 1973–1979
  • Karl-Heinrich Berninger, 1979–1982[2]

Unified Germany (1990–present)
  • Rainer Eberle, 2001–2004
  • Rainald Steck, 2004–2006
  • Hans-Ulrich Seidt, 2006–2008
  • Werner Hans Lauk, 2008–2010
  • Rüdiger König, 2010–2013
  • Martin Jäger, 2013-2014
  • Markus Potzel, 2014-2016
  • Walter Haßmann, 2016-2018
  • Peter Prügel, 2018-2020
  • Axel Zeidler, 2020–2021

References
  1. Bernd-Rainer Barth. "Krüger, Kurt Hermann Ernst Paul * 17.9.1925, † 21.10.2006 Botschafter". Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  2. Karl-Heinrich Berninger Akten zur auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, p. 1973, at Google Books
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