Source: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Vol. II. USGPO, Washington, 1946

Additions

Principal Functionaries of the Third Reich

Reich Cabinet
Nazi Party
Occupied Territories
Police and SS
Armed Forces

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(Praesidialkanzlei) 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 .......……………………….......... ..............................MERMAN 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, Waiter Darre)

Foreign Affairs .............……………….........………......JOACHIM von RIBBENTROP
                                                                              (predecessor, Constantin von Neurath)

Interior ............................................. …………………............HEINRICH HIMMLER
                                                                                             (predecessor, Wilhelm Frick)

Justice .............................................................................................OTTO THIERACK
                                                                  (predecesor, Schlegelberger-acting, Guertner)

Labor .................................................................................................FRANZ SELDTE

Labor Services  .........................................................................KONSTANTIN HIERL

Posts  ...................................................................................WILHELM OHNESORGE
                                                                                 (predecessor, von Eltz-Ruebenbach)

Propaganda ..........................................................................PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS

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)
                                                                                                                HANS FRANK
                                                                                                          SEYSS-INQUART
                                                                                       (predecessor, Roehm, until 1934)

Reich Youth Leader ............................................................................ARTHUR AXMANN

NAZI PARTY

Leader of the Party (Fuehrer)  ....................................................................ADOLF HITLER

Deputy of the Fuehrer  ...............................................................(until 1941)RUDOLF HESS

Chief of the Party Chancery and Secretary of the Fuehrer
(Lieter der Partei Kanzlei und Sekretaer des Fuehrers................MARTIN BORMANN

Chancery of the Fuehrer (Kanzlei des Fuehrers)
   Head ............................................................................................... PHILIPP BOUHLER

Chancery of the Party (Kanzlei der Partei)
   Head ............................................................................................ MARTIN BORMANN
   Deputy Head  ..............................................................................HELMUT FRIEDRICHS

Reich Party Directorate(Reichsleitung):

Chancery of the Fuehrer and Party Censorship  ..........PHILIPP BOUHLER
Chancery of the Party .............................................MARTIN BORMANN
Colonial Policy ...................................................FRANZ RITTER von EPP
Ideology and Foreign Policy .................................ALFRED ROSENBERG
Legal Office (until 1942) ....................................................HANS FRANK
Muncipal Policy ...............................................................KARL FIEHLER
Nazi Reichstag Delegation  ...........................................WILHELM FRICK
Organization and Labor Front  .............................................ROBERT LEY
Party Tribunal .................................................................WALTER BUCH
Peasantry .....................................................................WALTER DARRE
Press Control (Political) ................................................OTTO DIETRICH
Press Control (Economic) .................................................MAX AMANN
Propaganda ....................................................PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS
Reich Labor Service .............................................KONSTANTIN HIERL
SS and Germanization ...........................................HEINRICH HIMMLER
Treasury ......................................................FRANZ XAVER SCHWARZ
Youth Education  .............................................BALDUR von SCHIRACH
  

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES (Administrators responsible directly to Hitler)

    Reich Commissioner (Reichkommissar):

Netherlands ................................................................ ARTHUR SEYSS-INQUART

Norway .................................................................................... JOSEF TERBOVEN

Ostland (Eastern Territories) .......................................................HEINRICH LOHSE

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ......................................... WILHELM FRICK

State Minister ...............................................................KARL HERMANN FRANK

General Government-Poland (General Gouvernement) ................... HANS FRANK

   Chiefs of Civil Administration:

Alsace ......................................................................................ROBERT WAGNER

Bialystock .........................................................................................ERICH KOCHERICH KOCH

Carinthia and Carinola ............................................................FRIEDRICH RAINER

Lorraine ...................................................................................WILHELM STOEHR
                                                                                      (predecessor, Josef Buerckel)

Lower Styria  ..............................................................SIEGFRID UIBER-REITHER

Luxembourg  ................................................................................GUSTAV SIMON

POLICE and SS

Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of German Police
   (Reichsfuehrer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei)  .................HEINRICH HIMMLER

Chief of the Order Police
   (Chef der Ordnungspolizei)  ..............................................................WUENNENBERG
                                                                                                  (prececessor, Kurt Daluege)

Chief of Security Police and SD
   (Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und SD) ................................ERNST KALTENBRUNNER

Reich Main Security Office
   (Reichsicherheitshauptamt) ..............................................ERNST KALTENBRUNNER
                                                                                          (prececessor, Reinhard Heydrich)

Chief of Personnel Dept (Amt) I .............................................................ERWIN SCHULZ

Chief of Organization, Administration, and Law Dept (Amt) II ..............................HAENEL
                                                                                                          (predecessor, Siegert)

Chief of Security Service (SD) Dept (Amt) III  .................................OTTO OHLENDORF

Chief of Secret State Police (Gestapo) Dept (Amt) IV.................... HEINRICH MUELLER

Chief of Criminal Police (Kripo) Dept (Amt) V ..............................................PANZINGER
                                                                                                   (predecessor, Artur Nebe)

Chief of Security Services (SD) Occupied Territories
   Dept (Amt) VI ..................................................................WALTER SCHELLENBERG

Chief of Ideological Research Dept (Amt) VII ........................................................DITTLE
                                                                                                                (predecessor, Six)

HEADS OF THE ARMED SERVICES

Supreme Commander ............................................................................. ADOLF HITLER

Highest Ranking Officer .........................................Reichsmarshall HERMANN GOERING

C. in C. Army  ........................................................................................ADOLF HITLER
    (predecessors, Walter von Brauchitsch, Werner von Fritsch)

C. in C. Navy ........................................................................................KARL DOENITZ
(predecessor, Erich Raeder)

Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces  ...............................WILHELM KEITEL

Chief of the Operations Staff  .....................................................................ALFRED JODL

 

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