Joachim von Ribbentrop

Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop ("von" was added only later) (30 April 1893 in Wesel,Rhine Province,Prussia,Germany/16 October 1946 in Nuremberg,Bavaria, Germany) was the foreign minister of Germany from 1938 to 1945. He was executed by hanging for war crimes after the Nuremberg trials.

Drom 1936 to 1938, before the Second World War, he had been the ambassador to the United Kingdom.

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Ribbentrop and the Japanese ambassador to Germany, Kintomo Mushakoji, sign the Anti-Comintern Pact on 25 November 1936
Ribbentrop as SS-Gruppenführer, 1938
The French Premier Édouard Daladier (centre) with Ribbentrop at the Munich Summit, 1938
Neville Chamberlain with Ribbentrop at the Munich Summit, 1938
Ernst von Weizsäcker, the Secretary of State at the German Foreign Office, 1938–1943
Stalin and Ribbentrop at the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact, 23 August 1939
Ribbentrop during the signing of the German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship in Moscow, 1939
The British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson, in 1937. Though Henderson was a leading supporter of appeasement, his relations with Ribbentrop were extremely poor throughout his ambassadorship. On the night of 30–31 August 1939, he and Ribbentrop almost came to blows.
Clockwise from top left: Funk, Krosigk, Goebbels, Ribbentrop and Neurath during a Reichstag session, 1941
Poglavnik Ante Pavelić (left) of the Independent State of Croatia and Ribbentrop in Salzburg, 6 June 1941
17 October 1946 newsreel of Nuremberg trials sentencing