The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and the embassy is located in Berlin.

[1] In the last phase of the Holy Roman Empire (until 1806), Austria sent an embassy (1662 to 1806) to the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg.

From 1815 to 1866, Austria sent diplomatic representatives to the Federal Convention (Bundestag) of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1871 to the Imperial Court of the German Empire in Berlin.

In addition, some of the Habsburg embassies founded in the 16th century in individual German states continued to exist until the 1920s.

In parallel to the representative in the Federal Convention, there was also temporarily an Austrian embassy to the Free City of Frankfurt.