Berndt Robert Alexander Michael von Staden (24 June 1919 – 17 October 2014)[1] was a German diplomat who was the West German Ambassador to the United States from 1973 until 1979.

[2] Von Staden grew up as a Baltic German in Tallinn, Estonia.

He was head of the Consular Section of the West German Embassy in Brussels, from 1953 to 1955.

In his memoir, he describes the beginning of the turn from confrontation to détente, which he observed as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in Washington, D.C.

In the governments of Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt, he was the Head of Foreign Relations and Security in the Federal Chancellery in the shaping the policy of détente.