Embassy of Germany in Ottawa
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The Embassy of Germany in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

 (known in German as Deutsche Botschaft Ottawa) is located on Waverley Street, off Queen Elizabeth Driveway, the Centretown
Centretown
Centretown is a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Canada defined by the city as "the area bounded on the north by Gloucester Street and Lisgar Street, on the east by the Rideau Canal, on the south by the Queensway Freeway and on the west by Bronson Avenue." Traditionally it was all of Ottawa west of the...

 neighbourhood, in the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 capital of Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

. The Ambassador
Ambassador
An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

 to Canada from Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 is Georg Witschel.

List of Ambassadors

  • 1950–1951: Werner Dankwort
    Werner Dankwort
    Dr. Carl Werner Dankwort born in Gumbinnen, Germany, was a German diplomat who served a major role in bringing Germany into the League of Nations in 1926 prior to representing the German contingent in the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, the post-World War II effort known as the...

     (as Consul General)
  • 1951–1956: Werner Dankwort
  • 1956–1958: Hasso von Etzdorf
  • 1958–1963: Herbert Siegfried
  • 1963–1967: Kurt Oppler
  • 1968–1970: Joachim Friedrich Ritter
  • 1970–1972: Dietrich Freiherr von Mirbach
  • 1972–1975: Rupprecht von Keller
  • 1975–1979: Max Graf Podewils
  • 1979–1983: Erich Straetling
  • 1983–1990: Wolfgang Behrends
  • 1991–1993: Richard Ellerkmann
  • 1993–1998: Hans-Günter Sulimma
  • 1999–2001: Jürgen Pöhlmann
  • 2001–2005: Christian Friedemann Pauls
  • 2006–2009: Matthias Höpfner
    Matthias Höpfner
    Matthias Höpfner is a German bobsledder who has competed since 1995. He won two medals at the 2008 FIBT World Championships in Altenberg, Germany with a gold in the mixed bobsleigh-skeleton team event and a bronze in the four-man event.Höpfner also finished fifth in the two-man event at the 2006...

  • since 2009: Georg Witschel

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