Anneliese von Ribbentrop

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Annelies von Ribbentrop (born January 12, 1896 in Mainz , † October 5, 1973 in Wuppertal ) was the wife of the Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and published his notes after his death.

Life

Anna Elisabeth Henkell was a daughter of the entrepreneur Otto Henkell , owner of the Henkell & Co. Sektkellerei , and his wife Katharina nee Michel, known as Käthe. Anna Elisabeth was called Annelies, and so the use of her first name has remained. She grew up in Biebrich near Wiesbaden. At a tennis match, she met Joachim Ribbentrop, former lieutenant and member of the military mission in Constantinople, and married him on July 5, 1920 in Wiesbaden. They lived in Berlin-Dahlem and had five children together. Your house in Berlin-Dahlem became a meeting place for political and economic celebrities as early as the 1920s thanks to the hospitality and communication skills of its residents. Since her husband was adopted by a distant aunt, Gertrud von Ribbentrop, in 1925, the family carried the von Ribbentrop family name from that point on. This also gave them access to circles of the high nobility.

Joachim von Ribbentrop met Adolf Hitler in 1932 and joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1932. Following his example, Annelies von Ribbentrop also took this step a short time later. From 1932 to 1933, Hitler was temporarily one of the guests of the Ribbentrop family, as Joachim von Ribbentrop had offered to mediate between Chancellor Franz von Papen and Hitler after the Reichstag election in July 1932 . Multiple secret conversations took place. T. Protocol kept. In September 1935, Adolf von Ribbentrop was born, who became Hitler's godson. The baptism in the Dahlemer community in Berlin is refused by Martin Niemöller . Annelies complained directly to Hitler, but found another priest. At the end of the war, Annelies von Ribbentrop sought refuge for a short time in the Rhineland ; In 1945 she was imprisoned in the Dachau internment camp . Joachim von Ribbentrop, who had sought refuge in Hamburg, was arrested by British military personnel on June 14, 1945.

Annelies von Ribbentrop published the records of her husband, who was sentenced to death as a war criminal by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946 and executed on October 16, in the history revisionist Druffel publishing house in Leoni on Lake Starnberg , headed by Helmut Sündermann . She also wrote a book on "The Causes of World War II".

In 1973 she received the Ulrich von Hutten Medal at the annual congress of the right-wing society for free journalism (GfP) in Bad Godesberg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ed .: Between London and Moscow. Memories and recent records . Druffel, Leoni am Starnberger See 1953.
  • Conspiracy against peace. Studies on the prehistory of the Second World War . Druffel, Leoni am Starnberger See 1962.
  • German-English secret connections. British documents from 1938 and 1939 in the light of the question of war guilt (= publications of the Institute for German Post- War History, Volume 4). Publishing house of the Deutsche Hochschullehrer-Zeitung , Tübingen 1967.
  • The resistance's war guilt. From British secret documents 1938/39 (= German arguments, 2). 2nd edition, Druffel, Leoni am Starnberger See 1975, ISBN 3-8061-0660-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b German biography: Ribbentrop, Joachim von - German biography. Retrieved July 12, 2020 .
  2. Wolfgang Michalka, Ribbentrop and German World Policy 1933–1940 , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1980, p. 32f.
  3. Joachim Petzold: Franz von Papen: a German fate . Buchverlag Union, 1995, ISBN 978-3-372-00432-6 , pp. 153 ( google.de [accessed June 21, 2020]).
  4. Anna Maria Sigmund: The women of the Nazis . Heyne, 2002, ISBN 978-3-453-86152-7 , pp. 150, 151 ( google.de [accessed June 21, 2020]).
  5. The Berliner Zeitung (published in the Soviet occupation zone of Berlin) reported on June 27, 1945 that "Anneliese Ribbentrop" was recognized and arrested on a Danish ship on the way to Germany.
  6. RIBBENTROP MEMOIRS: First on the gallows . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1953, pp. 9-12 ( Online - Dec. 16, 1953 ).
  7. AUTHORS: ANNELIES VON RIBBENTROP . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1962, pp. 89 ( Online - Mar. 14, 1962 ).