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Joachim von Ribbentrop, (born April 30, 1893, Wesel, Ger.—died Oct. 16, 1946, Nürnberg), German diplomat, foreign minister under the Nazi regime (1933–45), and chief negotiator of the treaties with which Germany entered World War II. Ribbentrop was the son of an army officer in a middle-class family. After attending schools in Germany ...

Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) was Foreign Minister of Germany (1938–1945). He played the key role in negotiating the German-Soviet nonaggression pact that made possible the German invasion of Poland in September 1939.

Photos of Joachim von Ribbentrop Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany, an authority on world affairs, and a confidant of the Fuhrer. Independent broker of the Pact of Steel between Germany and Italy, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the USSR, and Ambassador to the Court of St James’s for London and the UK in 1936.

Rudolf von Ribbentrop, Son of Top Nazi Diplomat, Dies at 98. Rudolf Von Ribbentrop in London in 1936, shortly after his father, Joachim, was named Germany’s ambassador to Britain.

"In the historic year of 1938 the Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, was of great help to me in view of his accurate and audacious Judgment and the exceptionally clever treatment of all problems." During the course of the war, Ribbentrop was in close liaison with the other Nazi conspirators.