LEADER AND REICH CHANCELLOR (Fuehrer und Reichskanzler)...... ADOLF 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)

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)

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

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

REICH DEFENSE COMMITTEE (Reichsverteidigungsausschuss)...

KEITEL, GOERING, SCHACHT, FUNK, FRICK and Defense Officials (RD Referenten)

MINISTERIAL COUNCIL FOR DEFENSE OF THE REICH (Ministerrat fuer die Reichsverteidigung)

Chairman................................ HERMANN GOERING

Secretary............................... HANS LAMMERS

Plenipotentiary for Reich Administration... HEINRICH HIMMLER (predecessor, Wilhelm Frick)

Plenipotentiary for Economics........... WALTER FUNK

Chief of OKW............................ WILHELM KEITEL

Deputy of the Fuehrer................... RUDOLF HESS (followed by Head of the Party Chancery, Martin Bormann)

THREE-MAN COLLEGE (Dreier-Kollegium)

Plenipotentiary for (War) Economy............ FUNK (PREDECESSOR, SCHACHT)

Plenipotentiary for Administration...... HIMMLER (predecessor, Frick)

Chief of the OKW........................ KEITEL (predecessor, Minister of War -- Blomberg)

OFFICE OF THE DELEGATE FOR THE FOUR YEAR PLAN (Beauftragter fuer den Vierjahresplan)

Delegate (Beauftragter)................. HERMANN GOERING

State Secretary and Permanent Deputy.... PAUL KOERNER

Plenipotentiaries - General (Generalbevollmaechtigte):

Control of Building................ ALBERT SPEER

Special Chemical Production........ CARL KRAUCH

Economics in Serbia................ FRANZ NEUHAUSEN

Metal Mining in the Southeast...... FRANZ NEUHAUSEN

Armaments.......................... ALBERT SPEER

Manpower........................... FRITZ SAUCKEL

OCCUPIED TERRITORIES (Administrators directly responsible to Hitler)

Reich Commissioners:

Netherlands (Reichskommissar fuer die besetzen niederlaendischen Gebiete) Reich Commissioner... ARTHUR SEYSS- INQUART

Norway (Reichskommissar fuer die besetzten norwegischen Gebiete) Reich Commissioner.... JOSEF TERBOVEN

Ostland (Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland).... HINRICH LOHSE

Ukraine (Reichskommissar fuer die Ukraine)... ERICH KOCH

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Reichsprotektorat Boehmen und Maehren) (Czechoslovakia) Reich Protector..... WILHELM FRICK (predecessor, Constantin von Neurath)

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

General Government (General gouvernement) (Poland) Governor-General.... HANS FRANK

Chiefs of Civil Administration:

Alsace -- Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung im Elsass).... ROBERT WAGNER

Bialystok -- Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Bezirk Bialystok)... ERICH KOCH

Carinthia and Carniola -- Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung in den besetzten Gebieten Kaerntens und Krains)... FRIEDRICH RAINER

Lorraine -- Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Lothringen)... WILHELM STOEHR (predecessor, Josef Buerckel)

Lower Styria -- Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung in der Untersteiermark)... SIEGFRIED UIBERREITHER

Luxembourg -- Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Luxemberg).... GUSTAV SIMON

Military Administration:

Denmark:

Military Commander............ GEORG LINDEMANN (predecessor, Hermann von Hanneken)

Plenipotentiary............... WERNER BEST

France:

Military Commander............ STUELPNAGEL

Chief of Administration....... SCHMIDT

Diplomatic Representative..... OTTO ABETZ

THE REICHSTAG

President............................... HERMANN GOERING

Vice-President.......................... HERMANN ESSER

Head of Administration (Ministerialdirigent)... KIENAST

POLICE

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

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

Chief of Security Police and SD (Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und SD)... ERNST KALTENBRUNNER (predecessor, Reinhardt Heydrich)

Reich Main Security Office (Feichssicherheitshauptamt):

Chief.............................. ERNST KALTENBRUNNER (predecessor, Reinhardt Heydrich)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Military Office.................... WALTER SCHELLENBERG

Sources: Nizkor. Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression, Volume II, pp. 1055-61.

Nazi Perpetrators: Principal Officials of the Third Reich