Konstantin von Neurath

German Foreign Minister, Ambassador and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, general and Nazi war criminal (1873-1956)

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Lived 1873–1956, aged 83Germany
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    1873–1956
    Aged 83
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Updated 2026-06-11

A career diplomat who stayed on as Hitler's Foreign Minister through the regime's first expansionist years, then oversaw occupied Czechoslovakia while mass deportations began beneath him. Neurath kept his title, lost his authority, and ended at Nuremberg.

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Born to Swabian nobility in 1873, Konstantin von Neurath entered diplomatic service in 1901 and earned the Iron Cross during World War I. He climbed through postings in Copenhagen, Rome, and London before Franz von Papen made him Foreign Minister in 1932. When Hitler took power the following year, Neurath remained at his desk, playing a key role in dismantling the Treaty of Versailles and enabling territorial expansion — often objecting on tactical grounds rather than principle. By 1938 Hitler replaced him with the more fervent Joachim von Ribbentrop. Neurath became Reich Protector of Bohemia…

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