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In August 1934, Ribbentrop founded an organisation linked to the Nazi Party called the Büro Ribbentrop ( later renamed the Dienststelle Ribbentrop ).

It functioned as an alternative foreign ministry.

The Dienststelle Ribbentrop, which had its offices directly across from the Foreign Office's building on the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, had in its membership a collection of Hitlerjugend alumni, dissatisfied businessmen, former reporters, and ambitious Nazi Party members, all of whom tried to conduct a foreign policy independent of, and often contrary to, the Foreign Office.