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Principal Officials Of The Reich Government

(Part 1 of 2)


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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)

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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

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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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