France Consulate Leipzig

The French honorary consul in Leipzig

Honorary consul Dr. Harald Langenfeld represents France in Saxony. Office hours are on Wednesday mornings, by appointment.

Passports and visas: who is responsible?

Formal applications go to French Embassy in Berlin. Visas for France are handled only by the Consulate General in Frankfurt.

Contact details of the French Embassy in Berlin, as listed on its page in this directory:

• Address: Pariser Platz 5, 10117 Berlin, Germany
• Telephone: +49 30 590 03 90 00
• Email: cad.berlin-amba@diplomatie.gouv.fr
• Opening hours: Monday to Friday 08:30–18:00
• Website: www.de.ambafrance.org

What can an honorary consul do?

An honorary consul is not a career diplomat but a local resident – often a business person or lawyer – appointed by France and approved by the host country. Depending on the powers granted, the honorary consul can help French citizens in an emergency (lost passport, accident, arrest), pass on applications and documents to the embassy, and certify signatures or life certificates. Passports and visas are not issued by an honorary consulate; they remain the responsibility of the embassy or a career consulate.

Other consulates and embassies in Leipzig

16 other countries are represented in Leipzig: Armenia (honorary), Bosnia and Herzegovina (honorary), Bulgaria (honorary), Costa Rica (honorary), Cyprus (honorary), Estonia (honorary), Malta (honorary), Netherlands (honorary), Norway (honorary), Peru (honorary), Poland (honorary), Romania (honorary), Slovakia (honorary), Sweden (honorary), Uganda (honorary), United States (consulate general).

French missions in Germany

Measured in a straight line from Leipzig, the nearest other French office is the Honorary Consulate in Weimar (about 83 km). The nearest embassy or career consulate is the Embassy in Berlin (about 150 km). Distances in brackets are straight-line distances from Leipzig.

• Berlin (150 km) – Embassy of France
• Düsseldorf (390 km) – Consulate General (North Rhine-Westphalia)
• Frankfurt am Main (290 km) – Consulate General
• Hamburg (290 km) – Consulate General (Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein)
• Munich (360 km) – Consulate General (Bavaria)
• Saarbrücken (450 km) – Consulate General (Saarland)
• Stuttgart (360 km) – Consulate General (Baden-Württemberg)
• Aachen (440 km) – Honorary Consulate (Aachen region)
• Augsburg (350 km) – Honorary Consulate (Swabia and southern Württemberg)
• Bremen (310 km) – Honorary Consulate (Bremen)
• Weimar (83 km) – Honorary Consulate (Thuringia)
• Freiburg im Breisgau (490 km) – Honorary Consulate (Freiburg and Tübingen regions)
• Hanover (210 km) – Honorary Consulate (Niedersachen)
• Cologne (380 km) – Honorary Consulate
• Leipzig – Honorary Consulate (Saxony) (this page)
• Mannheim (340 km) – Honorary Consulate (City of Mannheim)
• Münster (330 km) – Honorary Consulate (City of Münster)
• Nuremberg (230 km) – Honorary Consulate (Franconia and Upper Palatinate)
• Saarlouis (460 km) – Honorary Consulate (Saarlouis and north-western Saarland)