Andreas Michaelis (born 24 July 1959 in Hanover, Germany) is a German diplomat who served as State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 3 January 2022, and was previously the German Ambassador to the Court of St James from May 2020 until January 2022.

[4] In this role his responsibilities included the negotiations on the Ukraine dossier, on the implementation of the nuclear agreement with Iran and on a political solution to the Syria conflict.

As State Secretary, Michaelis was responsible for, among other things, the Political Directorates-General at the Federal Foreign Office, and hence for European policy, relations with the USA and Russia, as well as Middle Eastern, Asian and African affairs.

He was succeeded as State Secretary by the Director-General for Economic Affairs at the Federal Foreign Office, Miguel Berger.

[13][2] According to Reuters, in an article published on 19 January, 2025, Michaelis warned that the incoming Trump administration would rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies co-governing power.

Reuters said a confidential briefing document, dated January 14 and signed by Michaelis, described Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of maximum disruption that would bring about "a redefinition of the constitutional order - maximum concentration of power with the president at the expense of Congress and the federal states.