WWII German Assoren or die einen Behordenleiter Oberinspektor
Pay Group 3d – 1939-1945 Diplomatic Corps Government Officials Rank Insignia, in gold bullion thread, approx 3 3/4″ tall.
The rank insignia were worn on the left lower sleeve of the uniform
The German foreign office (Auswärtiges Amt (AA)) had a sizable network of diplomatic missions when Nazis came to power in 1933. While it was a deeply traditional and elitist organisation within the German civil service, it enthusiastically helped the Nazis prosecute an ambitious foreign policy.
Listed here are the ambassadors and other senior diplomats of the AA during the Third Reich, including those with the ranks of envoy (Gesandter), ambassador (Botschafter) consul and consul general as well as chargé d’affaires (Geschäftsträger)
Abyssinia
Wilhelm Albrecht von Schoen [de] (1932–1935)
Hans Kirchholtes [de] (1935–1936)
Afghanistan
Kurt Max Paul Ziemke [de] (1933–1936)
Hans Pilger [de] (1937–1945)
Albania
Erich von Luckwald [de] (1930-1936)
Eberhard von Pannwitz [de] (1936-1941)
Martin Schliep [de] (1941-1944)
Argentina
Edmund Freiherr von Thermann [de] (1933–1942)
Erich Otto Meynen [de] (1942–1944)
Austria
Kurt Rieth [de] (1931–1934)
Franz von Papen (1934–1938)
Belgium
Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg (1931-1934)
Raban Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden [de] (1934-1936)
Herbert von Richthofen [de] (1936-1938)
Vicco von Bülow-Schwante [de] (1938-1940)
Werner von Bargen [de] (1940-1943)
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Envoy)
Werner Gerlach [de] (1942-1943)
Erich von Luckwald [de] (1943-1945)
Bolivia
Maximilian König (1932–1936)
Ernst Wendler [de] (1938–1942)
Brazil
Arthur Schmidt-Elskop [de] (1933–1937) [1]
Karl Ritter (1937–1938)
Curt Max Prüfer (1939–1942)
Bulgaria
Eugen Rümelin (1923–1939)
Herbert von Richthofen (1939–1941)
Adolf-Heinz Beckerle (1941–1944)
Chile
Hans Kurd von Reiswitz und Kaderzin (1932–1934)
Wilhelm Albrecht von Schoen [de] (1936–1943)
China and the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China[2]
Oskar Trautmann (1935–1938)
Heinrich Georg Stahmer (1941-1943)
Ernst Woermann (1943-1945)
Consul General in Canton
Felix Alternburg (1934-1938)
Franz Siebert (1939-1945)
Consul General in Hankou
Enno Bracklo (1938-1947)
Consul in Jinan
Franz Siebert (1925-1938)
Consul General in Nanjing
Martin Fischer [de] (1941-1944)
Consul in Qingdao
Enno Bracklo (1932-1938)
Consul General in Shanghai
Hermann Kriebel (1934-1937)
Martin Fischer [de] (1939-1945)
Walther Dietrich Hoops (1945)
Consul General in Tienstin
Wilhelm Stoller [de] (1936-1941)
Fritz Wiedemann (1941-1945)
Colombia
Erdmann Karl Maria von Podewils-Dürniz (1928–1934)
Werner von Hentig (1934–1936)
Wolfgang Dittler (1936–1941)
Croatia, Independent State of
Hermann Neubacher (1941–1941)
Siegfried Kasche (1941–1945)
Cuba
Hans Hermann Völckers [de] (1937–1939)[3] Czechoslovakia
Walter Koch (1920-1935)
Ernst Eisenlohr (1935–1938)
Andor Hencke [de] (1938–1939)
Danzig, Free City of
Erich von Luckwald [de] (1933-1936)
Otto von Radowitz [de] (1936-1938)
Martin von Janson (1938-1939)
Denmark
Herbert Freiherr von Richthofen (1930–1936)
Cécil von Renthe-Fink (1936-1942)
Werner Best (1942-1945)
Ecuador
Karl Pistor (1932–1936)
Eugen Klee (1936–1942)
Egypt
Eberhard von Stohrer (1926–1936)
Estonia
Otto Reinebeck (1932–1936)
Hans Frohwein (1936–1940)
Finland
Hans Büsing (1932–1935)
Wipert von Blücher (1935–1944)
France
Roland Köster (1933–1936)
Johannes von Welczeck (1936–1939)
Otto Abetz (1940–1944) ambassador
invested by Germany
Consul General in Algiers
Erich Windels (1926–1934)
Hermann Terdenge (1934–1937)
Johannes Erhard Richter (1937–1939)
Consul General in Damascus
Hans Kirchholtes [de] (1934–1935)
Ferdinand Sailer (1935-1939)
Consul in Hanoi
Wilhelm Stoller [de] (1928-1936)
Neumann (1941-1942)
Consul General in Marseille
Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (1942-1944)
Greece
Ernst Eisenlohr (1931–1936)
Victor zu Erbach-Schönberg [de] (1936–1941)
Guatemala
Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1924–1934)
Erich Kraske (1934–1936)
Otto Reinebeck (1937–1941)
Christian Zinsser (1941)
Franz Ferring [de] (1941)
Holy See
Diego von Bergen (1920–1943)
Ernst von Weizsäcker (1943–1945)
Hungary
Hans Georg von Mackensen (1933–1937)
Otto von Erdmannsdorff (1937–1941)
Dietrich von Jagow (1941–1944)
Edmund Veesenmayer (1944–1945)
Iceland
Werner Gerlach [de] (1939-1940)
Iraq
Fritz Grobba (1932–1939)
Ireland
Georg Dehn-Schmidt (1923–1934)
Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1934–1937)
Eduard Hempel (1937–1945)
Italy and the Italian Social Republic
Ulrich von Hassell (1932–1938)
Hans Georg von Mackensen (1938–1942)
Rudolf Rahn (1942–1944)
Consul General in Genoa
Hans Bernard [de] (1941-1944)
Consul General in Milan
Otto Bene [de] (1937-1939)
Walther Wüster [de] (1940)
Hans Bernard [de] (1940-1941)
Consul General in Naples
Walther Wüster [de] (1943)
Consul General in Tripoli
Gebhardt von Walther (1941-1943)
Japan
Herbert von Dirksen (1933–1938)
Willy Noebel (1938)
Eugen Ott (1938–1942)
Heinrich Georg Stahmer (1943-1945)
Consul General in Kobe
Wagner (-1938)
August Balser (1938-1945)
Consul General in Yokohama
Menne (-1943)
Heinrich Seelheim (1943-1945)
Latvia
Georg Martius (1932–1934)
Eckhard von Schack (1934–1938)
Hans Ulrich von Kotze (1938–1941)
Lithuania
Erich Zechlin (1933-1941)
Luxembourg
Werner Freiherr von Ow-Wachendorf (1931-1934)
Erdmann Graf von Podewilz-Dürniz (1934-1936)
Otto von Radowitz (1936-1940)
Manchukuo
Wilhelm Wagner
Consul General in Mukden
Ernst Ramm
Consul General in Dairen
Ernst Bischoff
Mexico
Heinrich Rüdt von Collenberg (1933–1941)
Monaco
Walter Hellenthal [de] (1943-1944)
Netherlands
Julius von Zech-Burkersroda (1928–1940)
Otto Bene (1940–1945)
Consul General in Batavia
Manfred Klaiber (1938)
Nicaragua
Hugo Otto Danckers (1936–1941)
Norway
Heinrich Rohland (1934–1936)
Heinrich Sahm (1936–1939)
Curt Bräuer (1939–1940)
Paraguay
Fritz Max Weiss (1933–1934)
Erhard Graf von Wedel (1934–1937)
Hans Büsing (1937–1942)
Persia/Iran
Wipert von Blücher (1931–1935)
Johann Smend (1935–1939)
Erwin Ettel [de] (1939–1941)
Peru
Heinrich Rohland (1924–1934)
Ernst Schmitt (1934–1938)
Eduard Willy Noebel (1938–1942)
Poland
Hans-Adolf von Moltke (1931–1939)
Portugal
Hans Freytag 1933–1934
Oswald Baron von Hoyningen-Huene 1934–1945
Gustav Adolph von Halem (1945)
Romania
Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg (1931–1934)
Georg von Dehn-Schmidt (1934–1935)
Wilhelm Fabricius (1936–1940)
Manfred von Killinger (1941–1944)
Carl August Clodius [de] (1944)
Saudi Arabia
Fritz Grobba (1939)
Slovak Republic
Hans Bernard [de] (1939-1940)
Manfred von Killinger (1940)
Hanns Ludin (1941–1945)
Spain
Count Johannes von Welczeck (1925–1936)
Hans_Hermann_Völckers [de] (1933-1936)[3]
Wilhelm Faupel (1936–1937)
Eberhard von Stohrer (1937–1942)
Hans-Adolf von Moltke (1943)
Andor Hencke [de] (1943)
Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (1943–1944)
Sigismund von Bibra (1944–1945)
Consul General in Barcelona
Hans Kroll (-1945)
Consul in Vigo
Heribert Schwörbel [de] (1943-1945)
Sweden
Viktor zu Wied (1933-1943)
Hans Thomsen (1943–1945)
Switzerland
Freiherr von Schauenburg-Herrlisheim (-1920)
Hans Borchers (1920-1933)
Ernst von Weizsäcker (1933–1937)
Otto Carl Köcher (1937–1945)[4]
Tangier International Zone
Kurt Rieth [de] (1941–1944)
Thailand
Erich August Karl Nord (1933–1935)
Wilhelm Thomas [de] (1936–1941)
Ernst Wendler [de] (1943–1945)
Turkey
Rudolf Nadolny (1928–1933)
Hans von Rosenberg (1933–1935)
Friedrich von Keller (1935–1938)
Franz von Papen (1939–1944)
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
Herbert von Dirksen (1928–1933)
Rudolf Nadolny (1933–1934)
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg (1934–1941)
Consul General in Batum
Otto Bräutigam (1940-1941)
United Kingdom
Leopold von Hoesch (1932–1936)
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1936–1938)
Herbert von Dirksen (1938–1939)
Consul General in Calcutta
Werner von Ow-Wachendorf (1933–1936)
Erdmann von Podewils-Dürnitz (1936–1939)
Consul General in Hong Kong
Hermann Gipperich (1933-1939)
Consul General in Jerusalem
Heinrich Wolff [de] (1933-1935)
Walter Döhle [de] (1935-1939)
Consul General in Montreal and Ottawa (relocated in 1937)
L. Kempff (1922-1935)
Henry Schafhausen (1935-1937)
Erich Windels (1937-1939)
Consul General in Pretoria
Friedrich Wilhelm von Keßler (1931–1933)
Emil Wiehl (1933–1937)
Rudolf Leitner (1937-1939)
Consul General in Singapore
Walther Maenns (1931–1938)
Adolf von Windecker (1938–1939)
Consul General in Sydney
Rudolf Asmis (1932–1939)
Consul General in Wellington
Walter Hellenthal [de] (1936–1938)
United States
Hans Luther (1933–1937)
Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (1937–1938)
Hans Thomsen (1938–1941)
Consul in Boston
Herbert Scholz (1933-1941)
Consul in Chicago
Georg Krause-Wichmann (1939-1941)
Consul General in Cleveland
Hans Borchers (1926-1933)
Karl Kapp (1936-1941)
Consul General in Los Angeles
Georg Gyssling (1933-1941)
Consul General in New Orleans
Ernst Wendler [de] (1934-1936)
Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (1937-1941)
Consul General in New York
Hans Borchers (1933-1941)
Consul General in Philadelphia
Erich Windels (1939-1941)
Consul General in San Francisco
Fritz Wiedemann (1939-1941)
Consul General in San Juan
Henry Freese (-1941)
Consul General in St. Louis
Herbert Diel (-1941)
Venezuela
Franz von Tattenbach [de] (1932–1937)
Erwin Poensgen (1937–1941)
Yugoslavia
Viktor von Heeren (1933-1941)