[12][13], When the First World War began later in 1914, Ribbentrop left Canada, which as part of the British Empire was at war with Germany, and found temporary sanctuary in neutral United States. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. In the military, Mr. von Ribbentrop was wounded several times and awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, among other honors. Commissioned in 1941, he served in Finland and at the retreat from Kharkov, with 1st Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, he took part in the famous battle of Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943 before . Franz von Papen (indipendente di destra) dal 30 gennaio 1933 al 7 agosto 1934 Hermann Gring dal 10 febbraio 1941 al 23 aprile 1945. Invited to stay as a house guest of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry at Wynyard Hall in County Durham, in November 1936, he was taken to a service in Durham Cathedral, and the hymn Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken was announced. [36], The Nazis and Germany's professional diplomats shared a goal in destroying the Treaty of Versailles and restoring Germany as a great power. In Philip Roth's alternative history The Plot Against America, Charles Lindbergh wins the presidential election of 1940 and allies the United States with Nazi Germany, Ribbentrop visits the White House as part of the two countries' new friendship. [89] Of the two references, General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, the German military attach in London, commented that Ribbentrop had been a brave soldier in World War I, and the wife of the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Elisabetta Cerruti, called Ribbentrop "one of the most diverting of the Nazis". of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling(s) unknown] Husband of Johanna Sophia (Hertwig) von Ribbentrop married 14 May 1891 in Wesel, Rees, Rhein, Prussia, Germany. The result of these talks was the signing in Berlin on 27 September 1940 of the Tripartite Pact by Ribbentrop, Count Ciano, and Japanese Ambassador Sabur Kurusu. [15], Ribbentrop served first on the Eastern Front, then was transferred to the Western Front. [63], In 1935, Ribbentrop arranged for a series of much-publicised visits of First World War veterans to Britain, France and Germany. [229], In late 1940, Ribbentrop made a sustained but unsuccessful effort to have Francoist Spain enter the war on the Axis side. In contrast to Neurath's cautious and less bellicose nature, Ribbentrop unequivocally supported war in 1938 and 1939. He was also deeply involved in the "final solution"; as early as 1942 he had ordered German diplomats in Axis countries to hasten the process of sending Jews to death camps in the east. [145] The Turks assured Kroll that they had no objection to Germany making the Balkans its economic sphere of influence but would regard any move to make the Balkans into a sphere of German political influence as most unwelcome. [249], In April 1942, as part of a diplomatic counterpart to Case Blue, a military operation in southern Russia, Ribbentrop assembled a collection of anti-Soviet migrs from the Caucasus in the Hotel Adlon in Berlin with the intention to have them declared leaders of governments-in-exile. Continue with Recommended Cookies. [192] Because the Balkans were rich in raw materials such as iron, zinc and oil[citation needed], which could help Germany survive a British blockade, it was viewed as highly important by the Allies to keep German influence in the Balkans to a minimum. The Robert Harris novel Fatherland (1992) explores an alternate history where the Nazis won the war, and Ribbentrop is still the foreign minister. [96] In the same report, Ribbentrop advised Hitler to abandon the idea of a British alliance and instead embrace the idea of an alliance of Germany, Japan and Italy to destroy the British Empire. [186] For a brief moment in August 1939, Ribbentrop convinced Hitler that the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union would cause the fall of the Chamberlain government and lead to a new British government that would abandon the Poles to their fate. [170] As part of a dual strategy to avoid war via deterrence and appeasement of Germany, British leaders warned that they would go to war if Germany attacked Poland, but at the same time, they tried to avoid war by holding unofficial talks with would-be peacemakers such as the British newspaper proprietor Lord Kemsley, the Swedish businessman Axel Wenner-Gren and another Swedish businessmen Birger Dahlerus, who attempted to work out the basis for a peaceful return of Danzig. [22] Ribbentrop and his wife joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1932. Rudolf von Ribbentrop, who has died aged 98, was the son of Hitler's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and became a highly decorated soldier in the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the. Rudolf von Ribbentrop Friedrich Richter Joachim Richter Wilfred Richter Franz Riedel Waldemar Riekogel Fritz Rieflin Alfreds Riekstins . In January 1941, the nadir of the relations between the SS and the Foreign Office was reached when the Iron Guard attempted a coup in Romania. [40], On 17 April 1934, French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou issued the so-called "Barthou note", which led to concerns on the part of Hitler that the French would ask for sanctions against Germany for violating Part V of the Versailles treaty. [194] As a result of the message from Rome and the ratification of the Anglo-Polish treaty, Hitler cancelled the invasion of Poland planned for 26 August but ordered it held back until 1 September to give Germany some time to break up the unfavourable international alignment. [191] The Anglo-French effort to include the Balkans into the "peace front" had always rested on the assumption that the cornerstone of the "peace front" in the Balkans was to be Turkey, the regional superpower. If the case should arise, they are resolved, and prepared, to employ without delay all the forces at their command, and it is impossible to foresee the end of hostilities once engaged. Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf. [2] On 4 December 1941, the Japanese Ambassador General Hiroshi shima told Ribbentrop that Japan was on the verge of war with the United States. Ribbentrop made frequent trips to Britain, and upon his return he always reported to Hitler that most British people longed for an alliance with Germany. In part, that seemed to affirm the importance of the Pact of Steel, which Ribbentrop had negotiated, and in addition, with Italy now an ally, the Foreign Office had more to do. During his talks with the Spanish foreign minister, Ramn Serrano Suer, Ribbentrop affronted Suer with his tactless behaviour, especially his suggestion that Spain cede the Canary Islands to Germany. Joachim von Ribbentrop is well known as the Nazi diplomat and foreign minister who negotiated the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union and the alliance with Italy, both in 1939. [147] On 23 April 1939, Turkish Foreign Minister kr Saracolu told the British ambassador of Turkish fears of Italian claims of the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum and German control of the Balkans, and he suggested an Anglo-Soviet-Turkish alliance as the best way of countering the Axis. [10], He worked for the Molsons Bank on Stanley Street in Montreal, and then for the engineering firm M. P. and J. T. Davis on the Quebec Bridge reconstruction. For 15 minutes, Mr. von Ribbentrop recalled, he listened silently as Hitler rambled on about how the German Army could fight the Allies to a standstill. On 21 August 1939, Hitler received a message from Stalin: "The Soviet Government has instructed me to say they agree to Herr von Ribbentrop's arrival on 23 August". That did immense damage to his reputation in British high society, as London's tailors retaliated by telling all their well-off clients that Ribbentrop was impossible to deal with. [233] Ribbentrop's efforts to persuade Molotov to abandon his demands about Europe as the price of a Soviet alliance with Germany were entirely unsuccessful. [150] One of the consequences of Ribbentrop's heavyhanded behaviour was the signing of the Anglo-Turkish alliance on 12 May 1939. [177] When Ciano asked if there was anything Italy could do to broker a Polish-German settlement that would avert a war, he was told by Ribbentrop, "We want war! [190] The different foreign-policy conceptions held by Hitler and Ribbentrop were illustrated in their reaction to the Fall of Singapore in 1942: Ribbentrop wanted this great British defeat to be a day of celebration in Germany, whereas Hitler forbade any celebrations on the grounds that Singapore represented a sad day for the principles of white supremacy. He said that having such a war start with a Japanese attack on the United States was the best way to begin it. Children He has two children, Rudolf (98, SS officer) and Friedrich (32) . The younger Ribbentrop attended the Westminster School in London while his father served as Ambassador to Britain. [205], As soon as the news broke in the morning of 1 September 1939 that Germany had invaded Poland, Mussolini launched another desperate peace mediation plan intended to stop the GermanPolish war from becoming a world war. But Ribbentrop refused to remain silent at this disrespect. Initially, Germany hoped to transform Poland into a satellite state, with von Ribbentrop and Japanese military attache Hiroshi shima trying to convince Poland to join the Anti-Comintern Pact. Contents 1 Early life 2 Military career 2.1 Beginning 2.2 Russian Front 2.3 Western Front Joachim von Ribbentrop. Luther proved to be a master intriguer and became Ribbentrop's favourite hatchet man. ", a question to which Ribbentrop had no answer except to state that there would be a "similar message" forthcoming from French Ambassador Robert Coulondre, who arrived later that afternoon to present the French declaration of war. [129] Ribbentrop, in turn, sent out instructions to the German Ambassador in Warsaw, Count Hans-Adolf von Moltke, that if Poland agreed to the German demands, Germany would ensure that Poland could partition Slovakia with Hungary and be ensured of German support for annexing Ukraine. During the course of all three periods, Ribbentrop met frequently with leaders and diplomats from Italy, Japan, Romania, Spain, Bulgaria, and Hungary. [2] Ribbentrop argued to Hitler that a war between the United States and Germany was inevitable given the extent of American aid to Britain and the increasingly frequent "incidents" in the North Atlantic between U-boats and American warships guarding convoys to Britain. The British historian D.C. Watt wrote, "Two hours later, Berlin Radio broadcast the sixteen points, adding that Poland had rejected them. 1 he married christiane grfin und edle herrin von und zu eltz genannt faust von stromberg, daughter of jacob edler herr von und zu eltz genannt faust von stromberg and ladislaja baronin mayr von Rudolf von Ribbentrop (11 May 1921 - 20 May 2019) was a former German Waffen-SS Captain who served in World War II. Since October 1939 they had operated largely independently of the German embassies at which they had been stationed. [31][32] One German diplomat later recalled, "Ribbentrop didn't understand anything about foreign policy. Adolf Richard von Ribbentrop (Q75296153) (born 1935) edit Statements instance of human 0 references sex or gender male 1 reference given name Adolf series ordinal 1 0 references Richard series ordinal 2 0 references family name von Ribbentrop 0 references date of birth 2 September 1935 1 reference father Joachim von Ribbentrop 1 reference mother [72], Ribbentrop had a habit of summoning tailors from the best British firms, making them wait for hours and then sending them away without seeing him but with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process. [24], Their change of heart occurred after General Kurt von Schleicher ousted Papen in December 1932. [203] On 31 August, Ribbentrop met with Ambassador Attolico to tell him that Poland's "rejection" of the "generous" German 16-point peace plan meant that Germany had no interest in Mussolini's offer to call a conference about the status of Danzig. Good to hear more are interested on this topic. Franz Roestel Alfred Rogg Eirch Rossner Rudolf Rott Rudolf Roy Karl Rubatscher Richard Rudolf Adolf Rud Hans Joachim Ruhle von Lilienstern Hugo Ruf Joachim Rumohr S. Rudolf Saalbach Rudolf Saumenicht Johann . [267] In the hours immediately following the assassination attempt on Hitler, Ribbentrop, Gring, Dnitz, and Mussolini were having tea with Hitler in Rastenberg when Dnitz began to rail against the failures of the Luftwaffe. [209], On the morning of 3 September 1939, Chamberlain followed through with his threat of a British declaration of war if Germany attacked Poland, a visibly-shocked Hitler asked Ribbentrop "Now what? [246] In August 1941, when the question of whether to deport foreign Jews living in Germany arose, Ribbentrop argued against deportation as a way of maximizing the Foreign Office's influence. Rudolf von Ribbentrop, Son of Top Nazi Diplomat, Dies at 98, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/obituaries/rudolf-von-ribbentrop-dead.html, Rudolf Von Ribbentrop in London in 1936, shortly after his father, Joachim, was named Germanys ambassador to Britain. For other people with the surname, see, Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop, Munich Agreement and Czechoslovakia's destruction, French-German Non-Aggression pact, December 1938, German threat to Poland and British guarantee, Pact with Soviet Union and outbreak of World War II. It would be a dangerous illusion to think that, if war once starts, it will come to an early end even if a success on any one of the several fronts on which it will be engaged should have been secured[197], Ribbentrop told Hitler that Chamberlain's letter was just a bluff and urged his master to call it.[196]. During all of that time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders. "[277], On 16 October 1946, Ribbentrop became the first of those sentenced to death at Nuremberg to be hanged, after Gring committed suicide just before his scheduled execution. 246 Adolf Von Ribbentrop Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE Creative Insights VIDEO BBC Motion Gallery BROWSE BOARDS CART Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 246 Adolf Von Ribbentrop Premium High Res Photos In July 1935, Brigadier Sir Francis Featherstone-Godley led the British Legion's delegation to Germany. [52] However, to everyone's surprise, the next day the British accepted Ribbentrop's demands, and the AGNA was signed in London on 18 June 1935 by Ribbentrop and Sir Samuel Hoare, the new British Foreign Secretary. The younger Mr. von Ribbentrop refused, but while he wandered in the ruins of a nearby hotel later that day, he accepted a sentrys invitation to enter the underground complex. He must be much younger than Rudolf. Rudolf was not popular with the other boys and made no close friendships. Before World War II, he played a key role in brokering the Pact of Steel (an alliance with Fascist Italy) and the MolotovRibbentrop Pact (the NaziSoviet non-aggression pact). [86] In March 1937, Ribbentrop attracted much adverse comment in the British press when he gave a speech at the Leipzig Trade Fair in Leipzig in which he declared that German economic prosperity would be satisfied "through the restoration of the former German colonial possessions, or by means of the German people's own strength. Married for 38 years, 2 days. [116][117] As a consequence, Britain was considered after Munich to be the main enemy of the Reich, and as a result, the influence of ardently Anglophobic Ribbentrop correspondingly rose with Hitler.[116][117][118][119]. [64] Ribbentrop persuaded the Royal British Legion and many French veterans' groups to send delegations to Germany to meet German veterans as the best way to promote peace. [206] Bonnet had Havas issue a statement at midnight on 1 September: "The French government has today, as have several other Governments, received an Italian proposal looking to the resolution of Europe's difficulties. [211] In effect, Ribbentrop's influence made Hitler go to war in 1939 with the country he wanted as his ally, the United Kingdom, as his enemy and the country he wanted as his enemy, the Soviet Union, as his ally. [265] Hitler felt that Ribbentrop's "bloated administration" prevented him from keeping proper tabs on his diplomats' activities. [136] Even Ribbentrop's standard line that Germany was only reacting to an unjust Versailles treaty and wanted peace with everyone, which had worked so well in the past, failed to carry weight. Ciano said that it was absurd to believe that the Reich could attack Poland without triggering a wider war and that now the Italians were left with the choice of going to war when they needed three more years to rearm or being forced into the humiliation of having to violate the terms of the Pact of Steel by declaring neutrality, which would make the Italians appear cowardly. [172] As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the first half of 1939 between von Papen and French Ambassador Ren Massigli with British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit to replace the weapons that the Germans had refused to deliver to the Turks. [100], Ribbentrop's time as Foreign Minister can be divided into three periods. The German occupation of the Czech areas of Czecho-Slovakia on 15 March, in total contravention of the Munich Agreement, which had been signed less than six months before, infuriated British and French public opinion and lost Germany any sympathy. [38], In 1934, Hitler named Ribbentrop Special Commissioner for Disarmament. In 1918, 1st Lieutenant Ribbentrop was stationed in Istanbul as a staff officer. Joachim von Ribbentrop was born in Wesel, Rhenish Prussia, to Richard Ulrich Friedrich Joachim Ribbentrop, a career army officer, and his wife Johanne Sophie Hertwig. [180] That was especially the case as decrypts showed the British military attach to Poland arguing that Britain could not save Poland in the event of a German attack and that only Soviet support offered the prospect of Poland holding out. [48] Because the Foreign Office's diplomats were not so sunny in their appraisal of the prospects for an alliance, Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler increased. [251] To Ribbentrop's disappointment, Hitler sided with Rosenberg. In the first, from 1938 to 1939, he tried to persuade other states to align themselves with Germany for the coming war. Shut your mouth!" [222] Ribbentrop championed the so-called Madagascar Plan in June 1940 to deport all of Europe's Jews to Madagascar after the presumed imminent defeat of Britain. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. And Ribbentrop was blowing up the whole day and I had to do nothing. We must attack Russia, or they will surely attack us!" [131] The meeting ended with Ribbentrop screaming that if Poland invaded the Free City of Danzig, Germany would go to war to destroy Poland. The same day, on 21 March 1939, Ribbentrop presented a set of demands to the Polish Ambassador Jzef Lipski about Poland allowing the Free City of Danzig to return to Germany in such violent and extreme language that it led to the Poles to fear their country was on the verge of an immediate German attack. [158] The same day, Hitler ordered German mobilisation. [244], As part of his efforts to bring Japan into Barbarossa, on 1 July 1941, Ribbentrop had Germany break off diplomatic relations with Chiang Kai-shek and recognized the Japanese-puppet government of Wang Jingwei as China's legitimate rulers. By occupying the Czech parts of Czecho-Slovakia, Germany lost all credibility for its claim to be only righting the alleged wrongs of Versailles. [247] In September 1941, the Reich Plenipotentiary for Nazi-occupied Serbia, Felix Benzler, reported to Ribbentrop that the SS had arrested 8,000 Serbian Jews, whom they were planning to execute en masse. Married for 38 years, 17 days. Jrg Lingnau, "re: von Ribbentrop Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 7 February 2017. "[276], Gustave Gilbert, an American Army psychologist, was allowed to examine the Nazi leaders who stood trial. Ribbentrop liked and admired Joseph Stalin and was opposed to the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. In that capacity, Ribbentrop negotiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement (AGNA) in 1935 and the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1936. Later that year, Argentina and Turkey severed ties with Germany; Romania and Bulgaria joined the Allies and Finland made a separate peace with the Soviet Union and declared war on Germany. [258] Luther's putsch failed largely because Himmler decided that a foreign ministry headed by Luther would be a more dangerous opponent than the Ribbentrop version. [251], Despite the often fierce rivalry with the SS, the Foreign Office played a key role in arranging the deportations of Jews to the death camps from France (194244), Hungary (194445), Slovakia, Italy (after 1943), and the Balkans. As early as 1938, 32% of the offices in the Foreign Ministry were held by men who previously served in the Dienststelle. [59][60] Neurath very much believed in maintaining Germany's good relations with China and mistrusted the Empire of Japan. Adolf Hitler () . [217] For his one-day Italian trip, Ribbentrop was accompanied by a staff of thirty-five, including a gymnastics coach, a masseur, a doctor, two hairdressers and various legal and economic experts from the Foreign Office. [46], Although the Dienststelle Ribbentrop was concerned with German relations in every part of the world, it emphasised Anglo-German relations, as Ribbentrop knew that Hitler favoured an alliance with Britain. [85] The German historian Klaus Hildebrand noted that as early as the RibbentropHalifax meeting the differing foreign policy views of Hitler and Ribbentrop were starting to emerge, with Ribbentrop more interested in restoring the pre-1914 German Imperium in Africa than the conquest of Eastern Europe. Rudolf von Ribbentrop, an SS officer who shortly before the end of World War II in Europe accompanied his father, Joachim Nazi Germany's foreign minister on a visit to a deluded Adolf. Panzerass, thank you for the advise about Rudolf! [261] The Foreign Minister's pleas for permission to seek peace with at least some of Germany's enemiesthe Soviet Union in particularplayed a role in their estrangement. [171], In May 1939, as part of his efforts to bully Turkey into joining the Axis, Ribbentrop had arranged for the cancellation of the delivery of 60 heavy howitzers from the koda Works, which the Turks had paid for in advance. Ribbentrop supported Marshal Ion Antonescu's government and Heinrich Himmler supported the Iron Guard. [259] In the aftermath of the putsch, Luther was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. [74] Ribbentrop further compounded the damage to his image and caused a minor crisis in Anglo-German relations by insisting that henceforward all German diplomats were to greet heads of state by giving and receiving the stiff-arm fascist salute. [79] He believed that the British aristocracy comprised some sort of secret society that ruled from behind the scenes, and that if he could befriend enough members of Britain's "secret government" he could bring about the alliance. Adolf Hitler with Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1935, in one of several rare photographs included in Rudolf von Ribbentrops book, My Father: Joachim von Ribbentrop., the nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union. [173], In June 1939, Franco-German relations were strained when the head of the French section of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Otto Abetz, was expelled from France following allegations that he had bribed two French newspaper editors to print pro-German articles. Discover the family tree of Adolf von Ribbentrop for free, and learn about their family history and their ancestry. That marked a significant escalation of the German pressure on Poland, which had been confined to private meetings between German and Polish diplomats. [40] Ribbentrop was tasked with ensuring that the world remained convinced that Germany sincerely wanted an arms-limitation treaty, but he ensured that no such treaty was ever developed. These activities which are practically confined to Germany render impossible the task of diplomacy.[84]. [231], In October 1940, Gauleiters Josef Brckel and Robert Wagner oversaw the near total expulsion of the Jews into the unoccupied zone libre of Vichy France; they deported them not only from the parts of Alsace-Lorraine that had been annexed to the Reich, but also from their Gaue as well. ), Waddington, Geoffrey. [124] That, in turn, helped to improve German-Soviet relations by demonstrating that German foreign policy was now primarily anti-Western rather than anti-Soviet.[124]. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. "[278] Nuremberg Prison Commandant Burton C. Andrus later recalled that Ribbentrop turned to the prison's Lutheran chaplain, Henry F. Gerecke, immediately before the hood was placed over his head and whispered, "I'll see you again. [247] To deport foreign Jews living in the Reich, Ribbentrop had Luther negotiate agreements with the governments of Romania, Slovakia and Croatia to allow Jews holding citizenship of those states to be deported. [146], In April 1939, Ribbentrop received intelligence that Britain and Turkey were negotiating an alliance intended to keep Germany out of the Balkans. [161] The decrypts showed that there was much tension in Anglo-Polish relations, with the British pressuring the Poles to allow Danzig to rejoin the Reich and the Poles staunchly resisting all efforts to pressure them into concessions to Germany. [254], In November 1942, following Operation Torch (the British-American invasion of North Africa), Ribbentrop met with French Chief of the Government Pierre Laval in Munich. [122] As a result of Ribbentrop's ultimatum on 23 March, the Lithuanians agreed to return Memel (modern Klaipda, Lithuania) to Germany. [165], Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a "peace front" of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a "tripwire" meant to deter any act of German aggression. On 14 June, after Germany's surrender, Ribbentrop was arrested by Sergeant Jacques Goffinet,[271] a French citizen who had joined the 5th Special Air Service, the Belgian SAS, and was working with the British Army near Hamburg. [194] The "rejection" of the German proposal was one of the pretexts used for the German aggression against Poland on 1 September 1939. His report delighted Hitler, causing him to remark that Ribbentrop was the only person who told him "the truth about the world abroad". [89] In both cases, the praise was limited, with Cerruti going on to write that only in Nazi Germany was it possible for someone as superficial as Ribbentrop to rise to be a minister of foreign affairs, and Geyr von Schweppenburg called Ribbentrop an absolute disaster as ambassador in London. [111] In a moment of pique at his exclusion from the Chamberlain-Hitler meeting, Ribbentrop refused to hand over Schmidt's notes of the summit to Chamberlain, a move that caused much annoyance on the British side. Ribbentrop tried to convince Matsuoka to urge the government in Tokyo to attack the great British naval base at Singapore, claiming the Royal Navy was too weak to retaliate due to its involvement in the Battle of the Atlantic. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German pronunciation: [adlf fn ba] (); 31 October 1835 - 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).He was ennobled in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1885 and was the 1905 recipient of . [234] In the aftermath of the failed coup in Bucharest, the Foreign Office assembled evidence that the SD had backed the coup, which led Ribbentrop to restrict sharply the powers of the SD police attachs. In public, Ribbentrop expressed great fury at the Polish refusal to allow for Danzig's return to the Reich or to grant Polish permission for the "extra-territorial" highways, but since the matters were intended after March 1939 to be only a pretext for German aggression, Ribbentrop always refused privately to allow for any talks between German and Polish diplomats about those matters. 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