Talk:List of ambassadors of the United States to Germany

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Ambassadors before 1871[edit]

Before 1871 germany was a patchwork of small states, more or less organized in loose federations, so there couldn't have been an ambassador to Germany. The persons listed in this article were ambassadors to Prussia. Even though Prussia was the largest German state at the time it shouldn't be confused with Germany as a single nation. The US ambassadors prior to January 1871 should be listed as ambassadors to Prussia in this article.Ulsterman (talk) 09:24, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Right. The list should probably better go to a separate article, altogether. Another point: At the time Austria was the most powerful of the German states. With equal or more right ambassadors to Austria (until 1866, its defeat as head of the German Confederation) could be listed here, which just shows that there's something wrong. --85.58.16.46 (talk) 18:10, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's not the whole truth but rather a misperception.

Neither has Austria been more powerful than Prussia nor has it been a part of the German Empire. Austria is a kingdom of it's own as Prussia or Bavaria was. All states have been sovereign states. Austria formed with Hungary and Böhmen & Mähren an Empire and the King of Austria was the Emperor of the Empire Austria-Hungary. Though this seems to imply more power Prussia was at least equal, with it's economically powerful colonies, almost the same size as Austria-Hungary and it's much bigger navy. The King of Prussia accepted the selection as german Emperor by the national congress (constitutional monarchy). The successor of the German Empire (that is totally different from the Empire of Austria and Hungary) is the so called Deutsche Reich informally often Weimarer Republic (that's the name of the epoch). It included e.g. Prussia, Bavaria, Saxon, Baden and Wüttemberg etc., but all of them haven't been kingdoms any more than (while Austria still was). The ambassador in Berlin was commissioned to the Empire of Germany and to the Deutsche Reich. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.115.17.43 (talk) 13:53, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

wording[edit]

This might need changed. The article reads the US has had continuous diplomatic relations with germany, but in the next sentence it contradicts itself to say the relations where not continuous but broken twice. Charles Edward 15:18, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

wrong person ?[edit]

There must be a mistake with the ambassador Charlemagne Tower (Ambassador 1902 - 1908 in Berlin). The Link leads to the lawyer, soldier and businessman Charlemagne Tower who died 13 years before the ambassador was in office. --Darkstar1970 (talk) 00:50, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where are the Ambassadors to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1974 till 1990?[edit]

nt --h-stt !? 17:31, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@H-stt: A bit late but I found List of ambassadors of the United States to East Germany WhisperToMe (talk) 15:22, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Interwiki to German article[edit]

de:Liste der Botschafter der Vereinigten Staaten in Deutschland

--Miroskarlif (talk) 11:20, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The German article uses a different Wikidata page (en-Wiki and ja-Wiki: Q326552, de-Wiki: Q29897177), so it cannot be automatically linked. I am not sure, why the Wikidata objects were split to begin with - this should be checked by someone with more experience in Wikidata and the conventions of this project. The distinction between "office" and "list of office holders" on Wikidata seems a bit pointless in this specific case when both aspects are covered in the same article in all 3 affected projects. The easiest way (imo) would be to merge the German Wikidata object into the English/Japanese page, but that would require some Wikidata-internal cleanup of the pages and their related values (I have left Metamorforme42, who created the second Wikidata item, a short notice about this issue on Wikidata). GermanJoe (talk) 20:46, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about this, I corrected my error on Wikidata. Metamorforme42 (talk) 18:46, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Image of the US ambassador to Germany in the 1910s[edit]

This Turkish magazine Servet-i Funun had an image of Ambassador Gerard and his wife

https://archives.saltresearch.org/bitstream/123456789/129156/35/PFSIF9170125096.jpg

It's from issue #1334 of January 25, 1917 WhisperToMe (talk) 15:21, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong person 1999[edit]

The Image of John C. Kornblum is in fact showing Gerhard Schröder 84.151.36.66 (talk) 13:21, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]