Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff

Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff (23 December 1884 – 21 March 1952) was a German diplomat best known for his service to the Nazi regime.

Dieckhoff was born in Strassburg, Alsace-Lorraine. From 1937 to November 1938 he served as German ambassador to the United States, until recalled in response to the American recall of its ambassador in protest over the "Kristallnacht". He was the last to occupy the post until after the war. In 1943 he assumed the post of ambassador to Spain.

Dieckhoff was interrogated after the war and was called to testify at the Nuremberg trials, but he was never formally charged with any crime. During his American posting he was involved in the controversy over the German American Bund relaying a order from the German government that German nationals were not to be associated with the organization [cite journal | title = Bund Banned | journal = Time | date = March 14, 1938 | url = http://205.188.238.109/time/magazine/article/0,9171,759273-1,00.html | accessdate = 2008-02-09] ; and in 1938 he warned Adolf Hitler that President Roosevelt had taken an implacably hostile opinion towards the Nazi government and that he was preparing for war against Germany. [cite journal | first = Matthew | last = DeFraga | title = March 1939: America’s Guarantee to Britain | url = http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~epf/1998/defraga.html | date = 1998 | volume = VII
journal = Ex Post Facto | publisher = History Department, San Francisco State University
accessdate = 2008-02-09]

Dieckhoff was related through marriage to Joachim von Ribbentrop, being the brother-in-law of Ribbentrop's sister. [cite book | first = Anthony | last = Read | title = The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle | publisher = W. W. Norton & Company | date = 2004 | url = | pages = 413 | accessdate = 2008-02-10]

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