Joachim von Ribbentrop

Also known as Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ullrich Friedrich Willy Joachim Ribbentrop, Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop

German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)

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Joachim von Ribbentrop was the Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany who served from 1938 until the end of World War II, making him a key figure in Nazi diplomacy and foreign policy during this period. He is historically significant because he played a central role in negotiating major international agreements for Nazi Germany, including the infamous non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in 1939, and he was executed as a war criminal after the war ended.

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Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop ( German: [joˈʔaxɪm fɔn ˈʁɪbəntʁɔp]; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician, diplomat, and war criminal who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.

Ribbentrop first came to Adolf Hitler's notice as a well-travelled businessman with more knowledge of the outside world than most senior Nazis and as a perceived authority on foreign affairs. He offered his house Schloss Fuschl for the secret meetings in January 1933 that resulted in Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany. He became a close confidant of Hitler, to the dismay of some party members, who thought him unintelligent, superficial and lacking in talent. He was appointed ambassador to the Court of St James's, the royal court of the United Kingdom, in 1936 and then Foreign Minister of Germany in February 1938.