List of ambassadors of India to Germany

The Ambassador of India to Germany is the chief diplomatic representative of India to Germany. The embassy is located in Tiergartenstraße 17, 10785 Berlin.

Ambassador of India to Germany
Incumbent Ajit Vinayak Gupte since October 7th 2024
Type	Ambassador
Member of	Indian Foreign Service
Reports to	Ministry of External Affairs
Appointer	President of India
Term length	No fixed tenure
Formation	1952
First holder	Subimal Dutt
Deputy	Deputy Chief of Mission
Website	Indian Ambassadors to the Federal Republic of Germany

The embassy is headed by the Ambassador, while three other consulates located in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich are headed by a Consulate general.

The following people have served as Ambassadors to the Federal Republic of Germany.^[1]

List of Indian Ambassadors to the Federal Republic of Germany

Name	Entered office	Left office
Subimal Dutt	1952	1954
A. C. N. Nambiar	1955	1958
Badruddin Tayyabji, ICS	1958	1960
P. Achutha Menon	1960	1964
S K. Banerjee	1964	1967
Khub Chand	1967	1970
Kewal Singh	1970	1972
Y. K. Puri	1973	1975
M. A. Rahman	1975	1980
A. M. Khusro	1980	1982
R. D. Sathe	1982	1984
D. S. Kamtekar	1984	1986
J. C. Ajmani	1987	1988
A. Madhavan	1988	1991
Kishan S. Rana	1992	1995
S.K. Lambah	1995	1998
Ronen Sen	1998	2002
T.C.A. Rangachari	2002	2005
Meera Shankar	2005	2009
Sudhir Vyas	2009	2011
Sujatha Singh	2012	2013
Vijay Keshav Gokhale[2]	2013	2016
Gurjit Singh[3][4]	2016	2017
Mukta Dutta Tomar	2017	2021
Parvathaneni Harish	2021	2024[5][6]
Ajit Vinayak Gupte[7]	2024

See also

• Embassy of India, Berlin

References

1. "Embassy of India / Berlin / Previous Ambassadors". www.indianembassyberlin.gov.in. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
2. "Vijay Keshav Gokhale appointed India's Ambassador to Germany". business-standard.com. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
3. "Ambassador Gurjit Singh". indianembassy.de. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
4. "Gurjit Singh India's new envoy to Germany". economictimes.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
5. "Harish Parvathaneni appointed as India's next Ambassador to Germany". ANI News. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
6. Bureau, The Hindu (2024-08-14). "Parvathaneni Harish appointed as India's Permanent Representative to U.N." The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-08-15. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
7. "Shri Ajit Vinayak Gupte appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". Ministry of External Affairs, India. 2024-10-07. Retrieved 2024-10-07.