Chancellor Adolf Hitler will nominate Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, acting Under-Secretary of the Reich Foreign Ministry, as German Ambassador to the United States, it was officially announced here today, the Havas News Agency reported.
Dieckhoff will succeed Dr. Hans Luther, former Reichsbank president, who has held the Washington post since April 21, 1933.
When the change will take place was not indicated. Dieckhoff, a career diplomat, is believed to enjoy close relations with the Nazi Fuehrer.
(The Berlin correspondent of the New York Times said today Dieckhoff is not a member of the Nazi Party, although he is “not out of sympathy with the present regime.”)
He will be succeeded in the foreign ministry by Hans Georg Von Mackensen, son-in-law of Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath. Von Mackensen is now serving as Reich Minister to Budapest.
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