List of ambassadors of Germany to Australia

Ambassador of Germany to Australia
Auswärtiges Amt
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Minister for Foreign Affairs
Residence	Embassy of Germany, Canberra
Appointer	President of Germany
Inaugural holder	Dr Walther Hess
Formation	1952
Website	Missions of the Federal Republic of Germany in Australia

The ambassador of Germany to Australia is an officer of the German Foreign Office and the head of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Commonwealth of Australia. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and holds non-resident accreditation for Nauru, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The ambassador is based with the embassy in Yarralumla in Canberra but initially from 1952 to 1958 was based in Sydney.

The ambassador is currently Markus Ederer since September 2022, who was most recently ambassador of the European Union to Russia. Germany and Australia have enjoyed diplomatic relations since 1952, although official consular representation existed in Sydney and Melbourne since 1879 and an embassy for the German Democratic Republic, with its own ambassador, also existed between 1972 and 1990. The Consulate in Sydney was also re-established in 1952 with Reinhold Renauld von Ungern-Sternberg appointed until 1956.

Based in Sydney, with responsibility for "Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the Fiji-Islands".

Based in Melbourne from 1923 to 1928, then moved to Sydney. Diplomatic relations were severed on 5 September 1939 and Switzerland acted as repository for German interests thereafter.

• Germany–Australia relations
• Foreign relations of Germany

• Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Auswärtige Missionschefs in Deutschland und Deutsche Missionschefs im Ausland von Metternich bis Adenauer, de Gruyter, 2001, p. 91.

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