Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet
The Beck / Goerdeler shadow cabinet designates the potential Reich government after a successful assassination attempt on Hitler, as well as a list of other people who should have assumed high state functions.
In the run-up to the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 , it came from different sides, u. a. from the Kreisau Circle , on planning and considerations for a Germany after Hitler. The organizers of the assassination attempt on Hitler agreed on Carl Friedrich Goerdeler as the new Chancellor and Colonel General ret. D. Ludwig Beck as Reichsverweser, thus as provisional head of state. In addition to Goerdeler, the social democrat Julius Leber was also under discussion as Chancellor at times . A fixed cabinet list did not appear to exist on July 20 either, which can be seen from the fact that a ministry has been filled several times. Some potential ministers and political representatives were only proposed by the conspirators without having heard of it themselves. Nevertheless, they had to bear the consequences (arrest and often death) after the failure. On the part of the Social Democrats and trade unionists, the establishment of a unified union was planned.
Reichsverweser and other high state offices
Imperial government
Reich Cabinet
State Secretaries
| Office | Surname | group |
|---|---|---|
| Reich Chancellery |
Otto Lenz Otto Kiep (Head of Press Department) |
Center lawyer |
| Vice Chancellery | Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg | military |
| Reich Ministry of the Interior | Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg | jurist |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Adam von Trott zu Solz Eduard Brücklmeier |
Diplomat diplomat |
| Reich Ministry of Justice | Walter wars | jurist |
| Reich Ministry of Finance (?) | Friedrich Ernst | jurist |
| Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture | Wilhelm Roloff | economy |
| Reich Ministry of Culture | Hermann Kaiser | military |
| Reich Ministry of Post | Erich Fellgiebel | military |
| Reich Ministry of Transport | Gustav Koenigs | jurist |
Political Representatives and Liaison Officers
| Office | Surname | group |
|---|---|---|
| Defense district I Königsberg |
Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort (Liaison Officer ) |
Military military |
| Military district II Stettin |
Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin Achim Freiherr von Willisen |
DNVP-affiliated official |
| Military district III Berlin |
Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg Hans-Jürgen Graf von Blumenthal (Liaison Officer) |
DNVP-affiliated military |
| Military District IV Dresden |
Wilhelm Kunze Walter Cramer (subcontractor) Hans Oster (liaison officer) |
Military economy military |
| Military district V Stuttgart |
Albrecht Fischer Reinhold Frank (subcontractor for Baden ) |
Economy center |
| Military district VI Münster |
Bernhard Letterhaus Felix Sümmermann (subcontractor) |
Center Catholic |
| Military District VII Munich |
Otto Geßler Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod (Liaison Officer) |
DDP military |
| Military district VIII Breslau |
Hans Lukaschek Adolf Kaschny (subcontractor) Friedrich Scholz-Babisch (liaison officer) |
Center center military |
| Military district IX Kassel |
Gustav Noske August Frölich (subcontractor) Ulrich Freiherr von Sell (liaison officer) |
SPD SPD military |
| Military District X Hamburg |
Gustav Dahrendorf Theodor Tantzen (subcontractor) |
SPD DDP |
| Military district XI Hanover |
Hermann Lüdemann Siegfried Wagner (Liaison Officer) |
SPD military |
| Military District XII Wiesbaden |
Bartholomäus Koßmann Ludwig Schwamb (subcontractor) Hermann Kaiser (liaison officer) |
Center SPD Military |
| Military district XVII Vienna |
Josef Reither Karl Seitz Rudolf Graf von Marogna-Redwitz (Liaison Officer ) |
CS SDAPÖ military |
| Military district XVIII Salzburg |
Anton Mörl-Pfalzen Franz Rehrl |
CS-close CS |
| Military district XX Danzig |
Ferdinand Freiherr von Lüninck Hasso von Boehmer (liaison officer) |
DNVP military |
| Military District XXI Poznan |
Ernst Vollert Georg Conrad Kißling (Liaison Officer ) |
Military military |
| Military district of Bohemia-Moravia | Nikolaus Graf von Üxküll-Gyllenband | military |
| Lower Silesian military district | Fritz Voigt | SPD |
military
| Office | Surname | group |
|---|---|---|
| Commander in Chief of the Wehrmacht | Erwin von Witzleben | military |
| Commander in chief of the replacement army or in the home war area | Erich Hoepner | military |
| Military leadership of the Netherlands and Belgium | Wilhelm Staehle | military |
Unified union
| Office | Surname | group |
|---|---|---|
| Honorary Chairman | Alwin Brandes | SPD |
| Member of the Reich leadership | Theodor Leipart | labor union |
| Head of Department (youth or foreign worker) | Walter Maschke | labor union |
| Head of Human Resources and Organization | Hermann Schlimme | labor union |
| Head of the press department | Richard Seidel | SPD |
literature
- Gerhard Ritter : Carl Goerdeler and the German resistance movement . 4th edition, DVA, Stuttgart 1984, complete lists of ministers in the appendix, pp. 617–621; ISBN 3-421-06181-5 .
- German Resistance Memorial Center Berlin Biographies
- Rudolf Lill : Josef Wirmer . in: Museumsverein Warburg (ed.): Josef Wirmer - an opponent of Hitler. Essays and documents , Hermes, Warburg 1981, pp. 35–50. ISBN 3-922052-17-7 (= Warburger Schriften , Vol. 4 ISSN 0344-9556 ).
Remarks
- ↑ The plans for the restitution of the German Imperial and Prussian monarchy in a parliamentary monarchy to be established after a successful assassination attempt on Hitler were also highly controversial in the Goerdeler circle, but they were discussed by many resistance fighters, including Goerdeler himself, Kurt von Plettenberg and Henning von Tresckow , approves. Compare with Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst: In memory of Kurt Plettenberg . Münster, 1985, and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia: In the stream of history .