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   Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume Two, Chapter XIV
                              
                      BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
                              
       1. PRINCIPAL OFFICIALS OF THE REICH GOVERNMENT
                              
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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

          Foreign Affair
                                             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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