Source: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Vol. II. USGPO, Washington, 1946 Principal Functionaries of the Third Reich Reich Cabinet LEADER AND REICH CHANCELLOR Designated Successors
...............................HERMANN GOERING,
RUDOLF HESS Successor named to form a Government after the collapse in Head of Presidential
Chancery(Praesidialkanzlei) and State
REICH CABINET (Reichsregierung) Chancellor (Reichskanzler) .... ......................................ADOLF HITLER Vice-Chancellor .................
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......................................FRANZ von PAPEN Reich Ministers: Reich Chancery ....... .......... ...................................HANS LAMMERS Air .................................. ........... ..........................HERMANN GOERING Armaments and War Production
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.....................ALBERT SPEER Church Affairs .......
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..............................MERMAN MUHS, Economics ........
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...............WALTER FUNK Education ............. ............ ..BERNARD RUST Finance ................................ ......... LUTZ GRAF SCHWERIN von KROSIGK Food and Agriculture ............
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BACKE, Foreign Affairs
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......JOACHIM
von RIBBENTROP Interior .............................................
............HEINRICH HIMMLER Justice
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THIERACK Labor .................................................................................................FRANZ SELDTE Labor Services .........................................................................KONSTANTIN HIERL Posts ...................................................................................WILHELM
OHNESORGE Propaganda ..........................................................................PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS War ...................................................................................WERNER
von BLOMBERG Ministers without Portfolio but with Rank of Reich
Minister ................................KEITEL Reich Youth Leader ............................................................................ARTHUR AXMANN 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 Chancery of the Fuehrer (Kanzlei des Fuehrers) Chancery of the Party (Kanzlei der Partei) Reich Party Directorate(Reichsleitung):
OCCUPIED TERRITORIES (Administrators responsible directly to Hitler) Reich Commissioner (Reichkommissar):
Chiefs of Civil Administration:
POLICE and SS Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of German Police Chief of the Order Police Chief of Security Police and SD Reich Main Security Office Chief of Personnel Dept (Amt) I .............................................................ERWIN SCHULZ Chief of Organization, Administration, and Law Dept (Amt) II ..............................HAENEL
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
Chief of Security Services (SD) Occupied Territories Chief of Ideological Research Dept (Amt) VII ........................................................DITTLE
HEADS OF THE ARMED SERVICES Supreme Commander ............................................................................. ADOLF HITLER Highest Ranking Officer .........................................Reichsmarshall HERMANN GOERING C. in C. Army ........................................................................................ADOLF
HITLER C. in C. Navy ........................................................................................KARL
DOENITZ Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces ...............................WILHELM KEITEL Chief of the Operations Staff .....................................................................ALFRED JODL
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