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 (1932–1935) (1935–1936) Afghanistan (1933–1936) (1937–1945) Albania (1930-1936) (1936-1941) (1941-1944) Argentina (1933–1942) (1942–1944) Austria (1931–1934) Franz von Papen (1934–1938) Belgium Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg (1931-1934) (1934-1936) (1936-1938) (1938-1940) (1940-1943) Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Envoy) (1942-1943) (1943-1945) Bolivia Maximilian König (1932–1936) (1938–1942) Brazil (1933–1937) 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) (1936–1943) China and the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China 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 (1941-1944) Consul in Qingdao Enno Bracklo (1932-1938) Consul General in Shanghai Hermann Kriebel (1934-1937) (1939-1945) Walther Dietrich Hoops (1945) Consul General in Tienstin (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 (1937–1939) Czechoslovakia Walter Koch (1920-1935) Ernst Eisenlohr (1935–1938) (1938–1939) Danzig, Free City of (1933-1936) (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 (1934–1935) Ferdinand Sailer (1935-1939) Consul in Hanoi (1928-1936) Neumann (1941-1942) Consul General in Marseille Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (1942-1944) Greece Ernst Eisenlohr (1931–1936) (1936–1941) Guatemala Wilhelm von Kuhlmann (1924–1934) Erich Kraske (1934–1936) Otto Reinebeck (1937–1941) Christian Zinsser (1941) (1941) Holy See Diego von Bergen (1920–1943) Ernst von