Before meeting with Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop was born in Wesel on April 30th 1893. He had a comfortable upbringing and a good education. Von Ribbentrop spent some time in Canada before World War One but returned to Germany when war was declared and served both on the Eastern Front and in Turkey. Von Ribbentrop was awarded the Iron Cross (First Class) for his work in World War One but his critics later claimed that it was Von Ribbentrop himself who partitioned the military for the award. After World War One had ended Von Ribbentrop worked as a wine salesman. He lived a life that can best be described as comfortable lower class in terms of his accommodation and lifestyle etc. This all changed when Von Ribbentrop married the daughter of a wealthy champagne producer.
Meeting with Hitler
Joachim Von Ribbentrop, full name is Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop. Joachim was born in 1893 and dead in 1946.
Joachim was just normal bussinessman, married rich and just normal retired solider. However, in 1928, when he first met Hitler and he joined the party about 1930's.
In the Nazi, his job was diplomat. However, he didn't had diplomatic knowledge and he sometime miss the German spell. Although he had these kinds of weakness, he had to serve his party as diplomat. Joachim followed Hitler's order, made an agreement with Japan in 1936. In addition, Joachim also merged Austria in 1938. In the same year, Germany had merged Sudetenland.
(Information from Historystudy.com)Von Ribbentrop negotiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement on June 18th 1935. On August 11th 1936 he was appointed German Ambassador to Great Britain. His primary task while in this post was to pave the way for knowing what the UK would do when Hitler started his aggressive foreign policy. Hitler wanted to know what the UK would do when he invaded Poland and it was Von Ribbentrop’s task to find this out. However, Von Ribbentrop did not do well at court. British officials found him awkward and stand-offish. He also committed a major diplomatic mistake by greeting the King of Britain with a Nazi salute in 1937. The media did not take kindly to such a gesture and reported it accordingly. Von Ribbentrop turned against Great Britain as a result and became decidedly an Anglophobe.
On February 4th 1938 he was made Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs by Hitler. In the complicated years of 1938 and 1939 Von Ribbentrop gave Hitler misleading information about the stand the UK was likely to take. He told Hitler that Britain would respond in a lethargic way if he threatened Poland and that they would accept German aggression in Eastern Europe without question as the war was ‘over there’.
On August 23rd 1939 Von Ribbentrop signed on behalf of Germany the non-aggression pact with the USSR. He would have known that the treaty contained a clause that allowed for the German and Soviet invasion and then subsequent carving up of Poland. Therefore he had to be guilty of conspiracy to commit war.
Joachim was just normal bussinessman, married rich and just normal retired solider. However, in 1928, when he first met Hitler and he joined the party about 1930's.
In the Nazi, his job was diplomat. However, he didn't had diplomatic knowledge and he sometime miss the German spell. Although he had these kinds of weakness, he had to serve his party as diplomat. Joachim followed Hitler's order, made an agreement with Japan in 1936. In addition, Joachim also merged Austria in 1938. In the same year, Germany had merged Sudetenland.
(Information from Historystudy.com)Von Ribbentrop negotiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement on June 18th 1935. On August 11th 1936 he was appointed German Ambassador to Great Britain. His primary task while in this post was to pave the way for knowing what the UK would do when Hitler started his aggressive foreign policy. Hitler wanted to know what the UK would do when he invaded Poland and it was Von Ribbentrop’s task to find this out. However, Von Ribbentrop did not do well at court. British officials found him awkward and stand-offish. He also committed a major diplomatic mistake by greeting the King of Britain with a Nazi salute in 1937. The media did not take kindly to such a gesture and reported it accordingly. Von Ribbentrop turned against Great Britain as a result and became decidedly an Anglophobe.
On February 4th 1938 he was made Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs by Hitler. In the complicated years of 1938 and 1939 Von Ribbentrop gave Hitler misleading information about the stand the UK was likely to take. He told Hitler that Britain would respond in a lethargic way if he threatened Poland and that they would accept German aggression in Eastern Europe without question as the war was ‘over there’.
On August 23rd 1939 Von Ribbentrop signed on behalf of Germany the non-aggression pact with the USSR. He would have known that the treaty contained a clause that allowed for the German and Soviet invasion and then subsequent carving up of Poland. Therefore he had to be guilty of conspiracy to commit war.