| 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 (Praesidialkanzlei) and State Minister (Staatsminister) | OTTO MEISSNER |
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| REICH CABINET (Reichsregierung) |
| Chancellor (Reichskanzler) | ADOLF HITLER |
| Vice-Chancellor | FRANZ von PAPEN (until 1934) |
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| 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 Darré) |
| | 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, von Eltz-Ruebenach) |
| | War | WERNER von BLOMBERG (until 1938) |
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| Ministers without Portfolio but with Rank of Reich Minister | KEITEL (predecessor, von Brauchitsch until December 1941) |
| | | DOENITZ (predecessor, Raeder) |
| | | BORMANN (predecessor, Hess) |
| | | HANS FRANK |
| | | SEYSS-INQUART (predecessor, Roehm, until 1934) |
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| Ministers after loss of portfolio |
| | | FRICK |
| | | von NEURATH |
| | | SCHACHT |
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| State Ministers acting as Reich Ministers: |
| | Head of the Presidential Chancery | MEISSNER |
| | State Minister for Bohemia-Moravia | KARL HERMANN FRANK |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| REICH DEFENSE COMMITTEE (Reichsverteidigungsausschuss) | |
| | | KEITEL, GOERING, SCHACHT, FUNK, FRICK and Defense Officials (RD Referenten) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| OCCUPIED TERRITORIES (Administrators directly responsible to Hitler) |
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| 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 (Generalgouvernement) (Poland) | |
| | Governor-General | HANS FRANK |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| THE REICHSTAG |
| President | HERMANN GOERING |
| Vice-President | HERMANN ESSER |
| Head of Administration (Ministerialdirigent) | KIENAST |
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| 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 (Reichssicherheitshauptamt): |
| 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 |