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LEADER AND REICH CHANCELLOR (Fuehrer und Reichskanzler)...... ADOLPH HITLER
Designated Successors........ HERMANN GOERING, RUDOLF HESS (until 1941) Successor named to form a Government after the collapse in May 1945.................. KARL DOENITZ Head of Presidential Chancery (Praesidentialkanzlei) and State Minister (Staatsminister)...... OTTO MEISSNER
REICH CABINET (Reichsregierung)
Chancellor (Reichskanzler)............... ADOLF HITLER Vice-Chancellor......................... FRANZ von PAPEN (until 1934) Reich Ministers:
Reich Chancery..................... HANS LAMMERS Air................................ HERMANN GOERING Armaments and War Production....... ALBERT SPEER (predecessor, Todt, Minister for Armaments and Munitions - - until 1942) Church Affairs..................... HERMAN MUHS, Acting (predecessor, Hans Kerrl) Economics.......................... WALTER FUNK (predecessors, Schacht, Schmitt, Hugenberg) Education.......................... BERNARD RUST Finance............................ LUTZ GRAF SCHWERIN von KROSIGK Food and Agriculture............... HERBERT BACKE, Acting (predecessor Walter Darre) Foreign Affairs.................... JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP (predecessor, Constantin von Neurath) Interior........................... HEINRICH HIMMLER (predecessor, Wilhelm Frick) [Page 1056]
Justice............................ OTTO THIERACK (predecessor, Schlegelberger -- acting, Guertner) Labor.............................. FRANZ SELDTE Labor Service...................... KONSTANTIN HIERL Occupied Eastern Territories....... ALFRED ROSENBERG Posts.............................. WILHELM OHNESORGE (predecessor, von Eltz- Ruebenach) Propaganda......................... PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS Transport.......................... JULIUS DORPMUELLER (predecessor, Eltz von Ruebenach) War................................ WERNER von BLOMBERG (until 1938)
Ministers without Portfolio but with Rank of Reich Minister.. KEITEL (predecessor, von Brauchitsch until December 1941) DOENITZ (predecessor, Raeder) BORMANN (predecessor, Hess) SEYSS-INQUART (predecessor, Roehm, until 1934) Ministers after loss of portfolio............ FRICK von NEURATH SCHACHT State Ministers acting as Reich Ministers:
Head of the Presidential Chancery....... MEISSNER State Minister for Bohemia-Moravia...... KARL HERMANN FRANK Other Participants in Cabinet Meetings:
Chief of Foreign Organization of Party.. ERNST WILHELM BOHLE Prussian Minister of State and Finance.. DR. JOHANNES POPITZ Government Press Chief.................. OTTO DIETRICH (predecessor, Walter Funk) Reich Youth Leader...................... ARTHUR AXMANN (predecessor, Baldur von Schirach)
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SECRET CABINET COUNCIL (Geheimer Kabinettsrat)
President............................... CONSTANTIN VON NEURATH Secretary............................... HANS LAMMERS Members................................. JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP, HERMANN GOERING, PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS, ERICH RAEDER, WILHELM KEITEL, RUDOLF HESS (until 1941), MARTIN BORMANN, WALTER von BRAUCHITSCH
REICH DEFENSE COUNCIL (Reichsverteidigungsrat) (Status in 1938)
Chairman................................ ADOLF HITLER Reich Minister of Air and Supreme Commander of Air force (Reichsminister der Luftfahrt und Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe)......... HERMANN GOERING Supreme Commander of the Army (Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres)................................ WALTER von BRAUCHITSCH Supreme Commander of the Navy (Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine)........................... ERICH RAEDER Chief of the OKW (Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht)... WILHELM KEITEL Deputy of the Leader (Stellvertreter des Fuehrers)..... RUDOLF HESS Chief of Reich Chancery (Chef der Reichskanzlei).... HANS LAMMERS President of Secret Cabinet Council (Praesident des Geheimen Kabinettsrats)................. CONSTANTIN von NEURATH Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration (Generalbevollmaechtigter fuer die Reichsverwaltung)... WILHELM FRICK [Page 1058]
Plenipotentiary for Economics (Generalbevollmaechtigter fuer die Wirtschaft) and Reich Finance Minister (Reichsminister der Finanzen)........... WALTER FUNK Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (Reichsminister des Auswaertigen)........................... JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP Reich Minister of Interior Reichsminister des Innern)... WILHELM FRICK Reich Minister for Propaganda (Reichsminister fuer Volksaufklaerung und Propaganda)........ PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS President of Reich Bank Directory (Praesident des Reichsbankdirektoriums)................. HJALMAR SCHACHT
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