Goebbels' cabinet
The Goebbels cabinet was designated by Adolf Hitler in his political will as the successor to the Hitler cabinet . Apart from the fact that Hitler was not constitutionally entitled to such a right , after his suicide on April 30, 1945, the German Reich was already largely occupied by the Allies, so that this cabinet could no longer have any political effect. In addition, the by Hitler committed Chancellor certain Joseph Goebbels suicide already on 1 May 1945 as well.
On May 2, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz , appointed by Hitler as Reich President , commissioned the Reich Minister of Finance, Count Schwerin von Krosigk, to head a governing government , the Schwerin von Krosigk cabinet , which, however, also had little political power.
Composition of the Goebbels cabinet
Goebbels Cabinet April 30 to May 1, 1945 |
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Office | minister | Political party | |
Chancellor | Joseph Goebbels | NSDAP | |
Political party | Martin Bormann | NSDAP | |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Arthur Seyss-Inquart | NSDAP | |
Interior | Paul Giesler | NSDAP | |
Finances | Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk | NSDAP | |
economy | Walther Funk | NSDAP | |
Food and Agriculture | Herbert Backe | NSDAP | |
Judiciary | Otto Georg Thierack | NSDAP | |
job | Theo Hupfauer | NSDAP | |
armor | Karl Saur | NSDAP | |
Commander in Chief of the Army | Ferdinand Schörner | NSDAP | |
Commander in Chief of the Navy | Karl Doenitz | NSDAP | |
Commander in Chief of the Air Force | Robert Ritter von Greim | NSDAP | |
Reichsführer SS and chief of the German police | Karl Hanke | NSDAP | |
Science, education and popular education | Gustav Adolf Scheel | NSDAP | |
Public enlightenment and propaganda | Werner Naumann | NSDAP | |
Head of the German Labor Front | Robert Ley | NSDAP |