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Hitler Cabinet
Cabinet of Germany
1933–1945

Date formed	30 January 1933
Date dissolved	30 April 1945
People and organisations
Head of state	Paul von Hindenburg (1933–1934) Adolf Hitler (1934–1945)
Head of government	Adolf Hitler
Deputy head of government	Franz von Papen (30 January 1933 – 7 August 1934)
Member party	Nazi Party German National People's Party (dissolved on 27 June 1933)
Status in legislature	Nazi-led coalition government (to June 1933) Nazi single-party government (after June 1933)
Opposition party	Centre Party Social Democratic Party of Germany Communist Party
Opposition leader	Otto Wels
History
Election	German federal election, November 1932
Legislature term	7th legislature of the Reichstag
Predecessor	Von Schleicher Cabinet
Successor	Schwerin von Krosigk Cabinet

The Hitler Cabinet de jure formed the government of Nazi Germany between 30 January 1933 and 30 April 1945 upon the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the German Reich by president Paul von Hindenburg – contrived by the national conservative politician Franz von Papen, who reserved the office of the Vice-Chancellor for himself. Originally Hitler's first cabinet was called "the Reich Cabinet of national salvation", which was a coalition of Hitler's Nazi Party and the national conservative German National People's Party, it became an exclusively Nazi cabinet when the DNVP was intimidated into dissolving itself.

The Enabling Act of 1933, passed two months after Hitler took office, gave the cabinet the power to make laws without legislative consent for four years. In effect, this power was vested in Hitler, and for all intents and purposes it made Hitler a dictator. After the Enabling Act's passage, serious deliberations more or less ended at cabinet meetings. It met only sporadically after 1934, and last met in full on February 4, 1938. Nonetheless, it grew immensely in size on paper, due to the addition of the commanders of the armed services and several ministers without portfolio.

Composition

The Reich cabinet consisted of the following Ministers:

Office	Incumbent	In office	Party
Chancellor	Adolf Hitler	30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Vice-Chancellor	Franz von Papen	30 January 1933 – 7 August 1934	none (Zentrum until 1932)
Vice-Chancellor	Hermann Göring	10 February 1941 – 23 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs	Konstantin von Neurath	30 January 1933 – 4 February 1938	none (NSDAP from 1937)
Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs	Joachim von Ribbentrop	4 February 1938 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister of the Interior	Wilhelm Frick	30 January 1933 – 24 August 1943	NSDAP
Reich Minister of the Interior	Heinrich Himmler	24 August 1943 – 29 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister of Finance	Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk	30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945	none (NSDAP from 1937)
Reich Minister of Justice	Franz Gürtner †	30 January 1933 – 29 January 1941	DNVP (NSDAP from 1937)
	Franz Schlegelberger (acting)	29 January 1941 – 24 August 1942	NSDAP
	Otto Georg Thierack	24 August 1942 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister of the Reichswehr (from 1935, Reich Minister of War)	Werner von Blomberg	30 January 1933 – 5 February 1938	none
	Wilhelm Keitel (as Chief of the OKW)	5 February 1938 – 30 April 1945	none
Reich Minister of Economics	Alfred Hugenberg	30 January 1933 – 29 June 1933	DNVP
	Kurt Schmitt	29 June 1933 – 3 August 1934	NSDAP
	Hjalmar Schacht	3 August 1934 – 26 November 1937	none (NSDAP from 1937)
	Hermann Göring	26 November 1937 – 15 January 1938	NSDAP
	Walther Funk	5 February 1938 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture	Alfred Hugenberg	30 January 1933 – 29 June 1933	DNVP
	Richard Walther Darré	29 June 1933 – 23 May 1942	NSDAP
	Herbert Backe	23 May 1942 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister for Labour	Franz Seldte	30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister for Postal Affairs	Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach	30 January 1933 – 2 February 1937	none
Reich Minister for Postal Affairs	Wilhelm Ohnesorge	2 February 1937 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister for Transport	Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach	30 January 1933 – 2 February 1937	none
Reich Minister for Transport	Julius Dorpmüller	2 February 1937 – 30 April 1945	none (NSDAP from 1941)
Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda	Joseph Goebbels	13 March 1933 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister of Aviation	Hermann Göring	27 April 1933 – 23 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister for Science and Education	Bernhard Rust	1 May 1934 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister for Church Affairs	Hanns Kerrl †	16 July 1935 – 15 December 1941	NSDAP
Reich Minister for Church Affairs	Hermann Muhs (acting)	15 December 1941 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition (from 1943, for Armaments and War Production)	Fritz Todt †	17 March 1940 – 8 February 1942	NSDAP
	Albert Speer	8 February 1942 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories	Alfred Rosenberg	17 November 1941 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Secretary of State of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia	Karl Hermann Frank	20 August 1942 – 30 April 1945	NSDAP
Ministers without portfolio (from 1938 Reich Ministers)	Hermann Göring	30 January 1933 – 27 April 1933	NSDAP
	Ernst Röhm (SA Chief) †	1 December 1933 – 1 July 1934
	Rudolf Hess (Deputy Führer)	1 December 1933 – 10 May 1941
	Hanns Kerrl	16 April 1934 – 16 July 1935
	Hans Frank (Governor-General from 1939)	19 December 1934 – 30 April 1945
	Hjalmar Schacht	26 November 1937 – 22 January 1943
	Otto Meissner (Chief of Presidential Chancellery)	1 December 1937 – 30 April 1945
	Hans Lammers (Chief of Reich Chancellery)	1 December 1937 – 30 April 1945
	Arthur Seyss-Inquart	1 May 1939 – 30 April 1945
	Martin Bormann (Chief of Nazi Party Chancellery)	12 May 1941 – 30 April 1945
	Wilhelm Frick (Reich Protector)	24 August 1943 – 30 April 1945
	Konstantin Hierl (Chief of the Reichsarbeitsdienst)	24 August 1943 – 30 April 1945

Changes

March 1933: Joseph Goebbels enters the cabinet as Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
April 1933: Franz Seldte becomes a member of the NSDAP; Göring takes a portfolio as Reich Minister of Aviation.
June 1933: Kurt Schmitt succeeds Hugenberg as Reich Minister of Economics. Richard Walther Darré succeeds Hugenberg as Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture.
December 1933: Ernst Röhm and Rudolf Hess enter the Cabinet as Ministers without portfolio.
May 1934: Bernhard Rust enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister of Science and Education.
June 1934: Hanns Kerrl enters the Cabinet as a Minister without portfolio. Röhm, Minister without portfolio, is murdered.
July 1934: Göring takes another portfolio as Reich Minister of Forestry.
August 1934: Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen leaves the cabinet. A new Vice-Chancellor is not installed. Hjalmar Schacht succeeds Schmitt as Reich Minister of Economics.
December 1934: Hans Frank enters the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio.
March 1935: Göring takes yet another portfolio as Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe.
May 1935: The title of Reich Minister of Defense is replaced by that of Reich Minister of War. Blomberg retains the office.
July 1935: Hanns Kerrl takes a portfolio as Reich Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs.
April 1936: Werner von Fritsch, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and Erich Raeder, Commander in Chief of the Navy, join the Cabinet.
February 1937: Wilhelm Ohnesorge succeeds Eltz as Reich Minister of Posts. Julius Dorpmüller succeeds Eltz as Reich Minister of Transport.
November 1937: Hermann Göring succeeds Schacht as Reich Minister of Economics. Schacht becomes Minister without portfolio.
December 1937: Otto Meissner enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister of State and Head of the Chancellery.
January 1938: Walther Funk succeeds Göring as Reich Minister of Economics.
February 1938: Joachim von Ribbentrop replaces Neurath as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Neurath becomes Minister without portfolio. Blomberg resigns as Reich Minister of War and his office is abolished. His role is taken by General Wilhelm Keitel as Director of the OKW. Walther von Brauchitsch succeeds Fritsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
May 1939: Arthur Seyss-Inquart enters the Cabinet as Minister without portfolio.
March 1940: Fritz Todt becomes Reich Minister of Armaments and Ammunition.
January 1941: Franz Schlegelberger succeeds Gürtner as Reich Minister of Justice.
May 1941: Rudolf Hess is dismissed from the Cabinet.
July 1941: Alfred Rosenberg enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories.
December 1941: Hanns Kerrl, the Reich Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, dies. He is not replaced. Hitler himself takes up the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
February 1942: Albert Speer succeeds Todt as Reich Minister of Armaments and Ammunition.
May 1942: Herbert Backe succeeds Darré as Reich Minister of Food.
August 1942: Otto Georg Thierack succeeds Schlegelberger as Reich Minister of Justice.
January 1943: Karl Dönitz succeeds Raeder as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.
January 1943: Hans Lammers appointed President of Reich Cabinet (Cabinet President in Hitler's absence)
January 1943: Hjalmar Schacht departs the Cabinet.
June 1943: Albert Speer's ministerial authority is extended to cover the entire German war industry, and is elevated to Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production.
August 1943: Heinrich Himmler succeeds Frick as Reich Minister of the Interior.
August 1943: Konstantin Hierl enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister without portfolio.

End of Cabinet

As the Third Reich government was disintegrating at the end of the Second World War and following Hitler's death on 30 April 1945, it was succeeded by the short-lived Cabinet of Schwerin von Krosigk commonly known as the Flensburg government.

References

Kershaw, Ian (2010). Hitler: A Biography. Norton. p. 253. ISBN 9780393075625.
The Brown Plague: Travels in Late Weimar & Early Nazi Germany
Stackelberg, Roderick (2002). Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies. Routledge. p. 109. ISBN 9780203005415.

Members of the Hitler Cabinet

Chancellor: Adolf Hitler
Vice-Chancellor: Franz von Papen
Deputy Führer: Rudolf Hess
President of the Reichstag: Hermann Göring

Armaments	Fritz Todt Albert Speer
Aviation	Hermann Göring
Church Affairs	Hanns Kerrl Hermann Muhs (acting)
Eastern Territories	Alfred Rosenberg
Economics	Alfred Hugenberg Kurt Schmitt Hjalmar Schacht Hermann Göring Walther Funk
Education	Bernhard Rust
Finance	Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
Food and Agriculture	Alfred Hugenberg Richard Walther Darré Herbert Backe
Foreign Affairs	Konstantin von Neurath Joachim von Ribbentrop
Interior	Wilhelm Frick Heinrich Himmler
Justice	Franz Gürtner Franz Schlegelberger (acting) Otto Georg Thierack

Labour	Franz Seldte
Postal Affairs	Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach Wilhelm Ohnesorge
Propaganda	Joseph Goebbels
Reichswehr	Werner von Blomberg
Transport	Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach Julius Dorpmüller
Reichsministers without portfolio	Hans Frank Wilhelm Frick Hermann Göring Rudolf Hess Konstantin Hierl Hanns Kerrl Hans Lammers Konstantin von Neurath Ernst Röhm Hjalmar Schacht Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Members granted rank & authority equivalent to a Reichsminister	Martin Bormann Walther von Brauchitsch Karl Dönitz Karl Hermann Frank Werner von Fritsch Wilhelm Keitel Otto Meissner Erich Raeder

Reichsführer SS: Heinrich Himmler
Stabschef SA: Ernst Röhm

Adolf Hitler

Politics

Events

Places of
residence

Führer Headquarters	Berghof (Kehlsteinhaus) Reich Chancellery (Führerbunker / Vorbunker) Adlerhorst Anlage Süd Felsennest Tannenberg Werwolf Wolf's Lair Wolfsschlucht I Wolfsschlucht II Special train (Führersonderzug)
Civilian residences	Braunau am Inn Linz Vienna (Meldemannstraße dormitory) Munich (16 Prinzregentenplatz) Obersalzberg (Kampfhäusl)

Personal life

Personal
belongings

Perceptions

Family

Eva Braun (wife)
Alois Hitler (father)
Klara Hitler (mother)
Johann Georg Hiedler (grandfather)
Maria Schicklgruber (grandmother)
Angela Hitler (half-sister)
Paula Hitler (sister)
Leo Rudolf Raubal Jr. (half-nephew)
Geli Raubal (half-niece)
William Stuart-Houston (half-nephew)
Heinz Hitler (half-nephew)
Jean-Marie Loret (possible illegitimate son)
Blondi (dog)

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