2. PRINCIPAL OFFICIALS OF THE NAZI PARTY Leader of the Party (Fuehrer).. ADOLF HITLER vertreter des Fuehrers)... ....... RUDOLF HESS (until 1941) Chief of the Party Chancery and Secretary of the Fuehrer Sekretaer des Fuehrers).......... MARTIN BORMANN PHILIPP BOUHLER MARTIN BORMANN HELMUT FRIEDRICHS HELMUT FRIEDRICHS GERHARD KLOEPFER Finance KARL WINKLER WALKENHORST PHILIPP BOUHLER FRANZ RITTER von EPP Ideology and Foreign Policy.... ALFRED ROSENBERG Legal Office HANS FRANK (until 1942) Municipal Policy ..... KARL FIEHLER Nazi Reichstag Delegation........ WILHELM FRICK Organization and Labor Front ROBERT LEY Party Tribunal WALTER BUCH Peasantry WALTER DARRE (on leave, Herbert Backe, acting) PAUL JOSEF GOEBBELS HEINRICH HIMMLER Treasury FRANZ XAVER SCHWARZ Youth Education BALDUR von SCHIRACH Heads of Party Formations Elite Guard (SS) HEINRICH HIMMLER Storm Troops (SA)...... WILHELM SCHEPMANN (predecessors, Victor Lutze, Ernest Roehm) NS Motor Corps (NSKK)........ ERWIN KRAUS Hitler Youth (HJ) ARTHUR AXMANN (prede cessor, Baldur von Schirach) NS Flying Corps (NSFK) (with status similar to that ALFRED KELLER NS German Student League (NSDSB) GUSTAV-ADOLF SCHEEL NS University Teachers League (NSDB) GUSTAV-ADOLF SCHEEL NS Women's League (NSF).... GERTRUD SCHOLTZ KLINK 3. HEADS OF THE ARMED FORCES Supreme Commander (Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehr. ADOLF HITLER HERMANN WILHELM GOERING (Reichsmar schall) C. in C. Army (Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres) ADOLF HITLER (predeces sors, Walter von Brausch itsch, Werner von Fritsch) C. in C. Navy (Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine) KARL DOENITZ (predeces sor, Erich Raeder) C. in C. Air Force (Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe) HERMANN WILHELM GOERING (succeeded in 1945 by Robert von Greim) A. HIGH COMMAND OF THE ARMED FORCES (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht: OKW) Chief of High Command (Chef des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht) WILHELM KEITEL Chief of Operation Staff (Chef des Wehrmachtfuehrungs- ALFRED JODL WALTER WARLIMONT MO B. ARMY HIGH COMMAND (Oberkommando des Heeres. sors, Walter von Brauch- itsch, Werner von Fritsch) Heinz Guderian, Kurt Zeitz- C. NAVY HIGH COMMAND (Oberkommando der Kriegsma- ... KA sor, Erich Raeder) ERICH RAEDER (after 1943) 4. INDEX OF INDIVIDUALS ABETZ, OTTO German Ambassador to the Petain Government. Reich Leader for the Press (Reichsleiter fuer die Presse); Pres- (Zentral Verlag, Franz Eher Nachf.) Generaloberst 1941-2; leading Panzer units in Russia, Jan. 1943; Commander in Tunis; surrendered May 1943. Reich Youth Leader (Reichsjugendfuehrer) since 1940, General of Police and of Waffen-SS; Chief of Anti-Partisan BACKE, HERBERT Acting Reichsminister for Food; in charge of Ministry of Food and Agriculture; Head of Reichsnaehrstand. BERGER, GOTTLIEB Chief of Central Office of SS; SS-Obergruppenfuehrer; General d. Waffen-SS; Inspector-General of Prisoners of War; head of Policy Division of Reich Ministry for Eastern Territories. BEST, DR. WERNER KARL German Plenipotentiary in Denmark. Generaloberst. Generalfeldmarschall; Minister of War until Feb. 4, 1938. Generalfeldmarschall. BODENSCHATZ, KARL HEINRICH General in Air Corps; Chief of Staff to Goering. BOHLE, ERNST WILHELM Staatssekretaer in Foreign Office; Gauleiter, Head of Foreign Organization (AO) of NSDAP. BORMANN, MARTIN Secretary of the Fuehrer; Head of the Party Chancery; Member of Cabinet vested with power of Reich Minister; Ministerial Council for Defense of the Reich; Reichsleiter; Executive Head of the Volkssturm; member of the Reichstag; SS Gruppen fuehrer. BOUHLER, PHILIPP Chief of the Chancery of the Fuehrer; Reichsleiter; Chief of the Party Censorship Committee for the Protection of NS Literature; Chief of the Study Group for the German History Book and educational material. BRANDT, DR. KARL Reich Commissioner for Health and Medical Services; SS Stan dartenfuehrer. BRAUCHITSCH, WALTER HEINRICH HERMANN ALFRED von Generalfeldmarschall, Retired December 1941; formerly C. in C. Army (OKH). BRUEGMANN, DR. ARNOLD Chief of the Archives of the Party; Divisional Head in the Reichsstudentenfuehrung. BUCH, WALTER Reichsleiter; Supreme Party Judge; Advisor on Population and Racial Policy; SS Obergruppenfuehrer. BUMKE, DR. ERWIN President of the Supreme Court, Leipzig. BURGDORFF, WILHELM General d. Infanterie; Head of Personnel Division, OKH; Chief Military ADC. to Hitler. BUSCH, ERNST Generalfeldmarschall. CANARIS, WILHELM Admiral; Head of Intelligence in OKW (Abwehr); removed from post and executed. CONTI, DR. LEONARDO Staatssekretaer and Chief of Health Divisions (Abteilungen III & IV), Reich Ministry of the Interior; Head of Public Health Department of Party Reichsleitung. DALUEGE, KURT Chef der Ordnungspolizei; (Deputy) Reich Protector of Bohemia-Moravia; Generaloberst d. Polizei; SS-Oberstgruppen fuehrer; since 1943 on "long leave." DARRE, WALTER RICHARD OSKAR Reichsleiter; Reichsbauernfuehrer; Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture; Head of Reichsnaehrstand; on leave since April 1942. DIETRICH, DR. OTTO Staatssekretaer; Chief of Press Divisions in Reich Ministry of Propaganda; Press Chief of Reichsregierung; Reichsleiter; Reich Press Chief of NSDAP. DITTMAR, KURT Generalleutnant; in Propaganda Division of the OKH; broad caster of weekly military commentaries. DOENITZ, KARL Grossadmiral and C. in C. of OKM after 1943; previously C. in C. of Submarine Arm of German Navy; Head of Government formed in May 1945. DORPMUELLER, DR. JULIUS Reich and Prussian Minister of Transport; Director-General of German State Railways. DORSCH, XAVER FRANZ Ministerialdirektor in Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production; Head of Field Command in Organization Todt. |