Consuls of Hamburg, Prussia, the North German Confederation and the German Empire in Sydney 1840-1897

Consuls of Hamburg, Prussia, the North German Confederation
and the German Empire in Sydney 1840-1897

1840-1842	William Hampden Dutton, Hamburg Consul. (Son of the British Vice-Consul in Cuxhaven Frederick Dutton)
1844-1847	Pelham Dutton, Hamburg Consul (Brother of William; died in Adelaide on 11.4.1847 at the age of 33)
28.9.1849-1860	Wilhelm Kirchner, Hamburg Consul. From 1851 also Consul for Prussia. (Originally from Frankfurt am Main, since 1839 in the company Kirchner & Co. in Sydney.)
17.4.1861-1862	Georg Köhler, Hamburg Consul. (Son of the Bavarian Consul in Rotterdam; moved to Melbourne in 1862.)
24.9.1862-1872	Siegfried Frank (also Franck), Hamburg Consul, also Consul for Prussia, from 29.6.1868 Consul of the North German Confederation, from 1871 Consul of the German Empire.
1872-1897	Carl Ludwig Sahl, Consul of the German Empire. (To begin with, the Honorary Consulship in Sydney continued to exist alongside the General Consulate "for Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the Fiji-Islands", which was established in Sydney in 1879. The Honorary Consulship's area of jurisdiction covered the colony of New South Wales; from 1873-1879 the Vice-Consulate in Newcastle was subordinate to it.)

Consuls of other independent German states
in Sydney 1855-1871