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Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (BA, MA) University of Leipzig (PhD) Occupation. Historian. Diplomat [1] William Edward Dodd (October 21, 1869 – February 9, 1940) [2] was an American historian, author and diplomat. A liberal Democrat, he served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 1933 to 1937 during the Nazi era.
Martha Eccles Dodd (October 8, 1908 – August 10, 1990) was an American journalist and novelist. The daughter of William Edward Dodd, [5] US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's first Ambassador to Germany, Dodd lived in Berlin from 1933–1937 [6] and was a witness to the rise of the Third Reich. She became involved in left-wing politics ...
Alanson B. Houghton, Ambassador April 22, 1922 February 21, 1925 Jacob Gould Schurman, Ambassador June 29, 1925 January 21, 1930 Frederic M. Sackett, Ambassador February 12, 1930 March 24, 1933 William E. Dodd, Ambassador August 30, 1933 December 29, 1937 Hugh R. Wilson, Ambassador March 3, 1938 November 16, 1938
William Shirer, foreign correspondent of the Chicago Daily News; Diplomats. André François-Poncet, French ambassador to Germany; Eric Phipps, British ambassador to Germany; Other Americans. Mildred Fish-Harnack, friend of Martha Dodd and American academic in Berlin; Stephen Wise, influential American rabbi; Other Germans. Fritz Haber
Dodd was the son of William E. Dodd, who served as United States Ambassador to Germany between 1933 and 1938, and the brother of Martha Dodd, who had affairs with Nazis and a Soviet NKVD agent before becoming an accused secret agent of the Soviet Union. [2]
Ambassadors of the Weimar Republic to the U.S. 1921–1922: Dr. Karl Lang, Chargé d'Affaires. 1922–1925: Otto Wiedfeldt. 1925–1927: Adolf Georg von Maltzan. Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron. 1928–1933: Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron (resigned April 14, 1933 in opposition to Hitler).
William Dodd may refer to: William Dodd (ambassador) (1869–1940), U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1937. William E. Dodd Jr. (1905–1952), U.S. leftist politician, New Dealer, and possible Soviet sympathizer. William Dodd (priest) (1729–1777), English clergyman who was hanged for fraud in 1777.
Charles Richard Crane (August 7, 1858 – February 15, 1939) [1] was a wealthy American businessman, heir to a large industrial fortune and connoisseur of Arab culture, a noted Arabist. His widespread business interests gave him entree into domestic and international political affairs where he enjoyed privileged access to many influential power ...