Prussian State Council (Nazi Germany) Preuรischer Staatsrat | |
|---|---|
Civil flag of Prussia | |
| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Established | 8 July 1933 |
| Disbanded | 8 May 1945 |
| Precededย by | Prussian State Council (Weimar Republic) |
| Succeededย by | Formally abolished, 25 February 1947 |
| Leadership | |
Prรคsident | |
| Meeting place | |
| New Palace, Potsdam | |
The List of Members of the Prussian State Council of Nazi Germany enumerates the persons who served on the advisory body to the Prussian minister president, which existed from July 1933 to May 1945. The State Council by law consisted of (1) members by virtue of office (ex officio members) and (2) members who were appointed by the Prussian minister president. The ex officio members were the minister president and the Prussian cabinet ministers. Of the fifty appointed members, some were to be drawn specifically from the state secretaries of the ministries and certain other Nazi Party or government office holders, among whom were the Stabschef of the SA, the Reichsfรผhrer-SS, certain other high ranking SA and SS officers and the Gauleiter of the Prussian Gaue. The remaining appointed members were to include representatives of churches, business, labor, science, art and other "men of merit". Of the 125 known members of the State Council, some 31 died in office, 18 were dismissed, 12 resigned or retired and 64 remained in office at the fall of the Nazi regime.
List of ex officio members
edit| Name[1] | Term in office | Qualifying office when appointed | Comments[a] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermann Gรถring | 1933โ1945 | Prussian Minister president | Dismissed from all offices in April 1945. |
| Walter Darrรฉ | 1933โ1945 | Prussian Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forests | |
| Julius Dorpmรผller | 1937โ1945 | Prussian Minister of Transport | |
| Wilhelm Frick | 1934โ1945 | Prussian Minister of the Interior | |
| Walther Funk | 1938โ1945 | Prussian Minister of Economics | |
| Franz Gรผrtner | 1934โ1935 | Prussian Minister of Justice | Resigned when Prussian Ministry merged with Reich Justice Ministry in April 1935. |
| Hanns Kerrl | 1933โ1941 | Prussian Minister of Justice | Resigned as Minister in July 1934, but remained an appointed member and died in office in December 1941. |
| Johannes Popitz | 1933โ1944 | Prussian Minister of Finance | Dismissed and arrested in connection with the 20 July plot in July 1944. |
| Bernhard Rust | 1933โ1945 | Prussian Minister of Science, Education and Popular Culture | Died in office (suicide) in May 1945. |
| Kurt Schmitt | 1933โ1945 | Prussian Minister of Economics and Labor | Resigned as Minister in January 1935, but remained an appointed member until 1945. |
| Franz Seldte | 1935โ1945 | Prussian Minister of Labor |
List of appointed members
edit| Name[2] | Term in office | Office or rank when appointed | Comments[b] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Alpers | 1937โ1944 | State Secretary, Reich and Prussian State Forestry Office | Died in office (suicide) in September 1944. | |
| August Wilhelm of Prussia | 1933โ1945 | SA-Gruppenfรผhrer | ||
| Herbert Backe | 1935โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Food and Agriculture | ||
| Wilhelm Berning | 1933โ1945 | Bishop of Osnabrรผck | ||
| Wilhelm Bรถrger | 1933โ1945 | Trustee of Labour for the Rhine Province | ||
| Ernst Brandes | 1933โ1935 | Estate owner in East Prussia | Died in office in April 1935. | |
| Rudolf Brinkmann | 1938โ1939 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Economics | Resigned and hospitalized for mental illness in May 1939. | |
| Helmuth Brรผckner | 1933โ1934 | Gauleiter of Silesia | Dismissed from all offices in connection with the Rรถhm purge in December 1934. | |
| Bruno Clauรen | 1933โ1934 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Economics and Labor | Retired in May 1934. | |
| Leonardo Conti | 1934โ1945 | Health Commissioner, Prussian Interior Ministry | ||
| Kurt Daluege | 1933โ1945 | SS-Gruppenfรผhrer | ||
| Georg von Detten | 1933โ1934 | SA-Gruppenfรผhrer | Died in office (murdered in the Rรถhm purge) in July 1934. | |
| Sepp Dietrich | 1933โ1945 | SS-Gruppenfรผhrer | ||
| Hermann Dohna-Finckenstein | 1933โ1942 | Estate owner in West Prussia | Died in office in December 1942. | |
| Otto-Heinrich Drechsler | 1937โ1945 | Oberbรผrgermeister of Lรผbeck | Died in office (suicide) in May 1945. | |
| Joachim Albrecht Eggeling | 1937โ1945 | Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg | Died in office (suicide) in April 1945. | |
| Karl Ernst | 1933โ1934 | SA-Gruppenfรผhrer | Died in office (murdered in the Rรถhm purge) in June 1934. | |
| Friedrich Karl Florian | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of Dรผsseldorf | ||
| Albert Forster | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of Danzig | ||
| Roland Freisler | 1933โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Justice Ministry | Died in office (in an air raid) in February 1945. | |
| Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven | 1933โ1942 | Professor of Law, University of Breslau | Died in office in October 1942. | |
| Wilhelm Furtwรคngler | 1933โ1945 | Principal Conductor, Berlin Philharmonic | ||
| Paul Giesler | 1941โ1943 | Gauleiter of Southern Westphalia | Resigned in June 1943. | |
| Artur Gรถrlitzer | 1933โ1945 | Deputy Gauleiter of Berlin | Died in office (suicide) in April 1945. | |
| Rรผdiger Graf von der Goltz | 1933โ1945 | Trustee of Labour, Province of Pomerania | ||
| Ludwig Grauert | 1933โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Interior Ministry | ||
| Arthur Greiser[3] | 1939โ1945 | Gauleiter of Posen | ||
| Erich Gritzbach | 1938โ1945 | Chief of the Staff Office, Prussian State Ministry | ||
| Josef Grohรฉ | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of Cologne-Aachen | ||
| Gustaf Grรผndgens | 1936โ1945 | Generalintendant, Prussian State Theater | ||
| Carl von Halfern | 1933โ1937 | Oberprรคsident, province of Pomerania | Died in office in October 1937. | |
| Edmund Heines | 1933โ1934 | SA-Obergruppenfรผhrer | Died in office (murdered in the Rรถhm purge) in June 1934. | |
| Kurt Herrmann | 1938โ1945 | Publisher and industrialist | ||
| Reinhard Heydrich | 1934โ1942 | Chief of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | Died in office (assassinated) in June 1942. | |
| Heinrich Himmler | 1933โ1945 | Reichsfรผhrer-SS | Dismissed from all offices in April 1945. | |
| Hans Hinkel | 1939โ1945 | Department Head, Reich Ministry of Propaganda | ||
| Albert Hoffmann | 1943โ1945 | Gauleiter of Southern Westphalia | ||
| Dietrich von Jagow | 1934โ1945 | SA-Obergruppenfรผhrer | Died in office (suicide) in April 1945. | |
| Karl Jarres | 1933โ1945 | Industrialist and business executive | ||
| Hanns Johst | 1934โ1945 | First Chairman, German Academy for Poetry | ||
| Rudolf Jordan | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg | ||
| Wilhelm Karpenstein | 1933โ1934 | Gauleiter of Pomerania | Dismissed from all offices in connection with the Rรถhm purge in July 1934. | |
| Walter von Keudell | 1935โ1937 | Generalforstmeister | Dismissed in November 1937. | |
| Wilhelm Kleinmann | 1937โ1942 | State Secretary, Prussian Transportation Ministry | Dismissed in May 1942. | |
| Erich Koch | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of East Prussia | ||
| Gustav Koenigs | 1935โ1940 | State Secretary, Prussian Transportation Ministry | Resigned in February 1940. | |
| Walter Kรถhler | 1937โ1945 | Department Head, Four Year Plan | ||
| Paul Kรถrner | 1933โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian State Ministry | ||
| Friedrich Krebs | 1933โ1945 | Oberbรผrgermeister of Frankfurt | ||
| Johannes Krohn | 1935โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Labor Ministry | ||
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Krรผger | 1933โ1945 | SAรผ-Obergruppenfรผhrer | ||
| Wilhelm Kube | 1933โ1936 | Gauleiter of Kurmark | Dismissed from all offices in August 1936. | |
| Wilhelm Kutscher | 1933โ1945 | Retired Oberprรคsident, Province of East Prussia | ||
| Friedrich Landfried | 1933โ1943 | State Secretary, Prussian Finance Ministry | Retired in November 1943. | |
| Hartmann Lauterbacher | 1941โ1945 | Gauleiter of Southern Hanover-Brunswick | ||
| Magnus von Levetzow | 1935โ1939 | Retired Konteradmiral | Died in office in March 1939. | |
| Robert Ley | 1933โ1945 | Chief of Staff, Nazi Party Political Organization | ||
| Julius Lippert | 1937โ1940 | Oberbรผrgermeister and Stadtsprรคsident of Berlin | Dismissed in July 1940. | |
| Karl Litzmann | 1933โ1936 | Retired General der Infanterie | Died in office in May 1936. | |
| Karl-Siegmund Litzmann | 1933โ1945 | SA-Obergruppenfรผhrer | ||
| Hinrich Lohse | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein | ||
| Ferdinand von Lรผninck | 1933โ1944 | Oberprรคsident, Province of Westphalia | Dismissed and arrested in connection with the 20 July plot in July 1944. | |
| Hermann von Lรผninck | 1933โ1937 | Oberprรคsident, Rhine Province | Dismissed in June 1937. | |
| Viktor Lutze | 1933โ1943 | SA-Obergruppenfรผhrer | Died in office (in an automobile accident) in May 1943. | |
| Max Luyken | 1933โ1935 | SA-Gruppenfรผhrer | Resigned in September 1935. | |
| August von Mackensen | 1933โ1945 | Retired Generalfeldmarschall | ||
| Wilhelm Meinberg | 1933โ1945 | President, Agricultural League | ||
| Kurt Melcher | 1933โ1945 | Oberprรคsident, Province of Saxony | ||
| Elhard von Morozowicz | 1933โ1934 | SA-Gruppenfรผhrer | Died in office (in an automobile accident) in January 1934. | |
| Hermann Muhs | 1937โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry for Church Affairs | ||
| Ludwig Mรผller | 1933โ1945 | Reichsbischof | ||
| Erich Neumann | 1933โ1942 | Ministerial Director, Prussian State Ministry | Resigned in August 1942. | |
| Werner Peiner[4] | 1940โ1945 | Professor, Hermann Gรถring Master School for Painting | ||
| Hans Pfundtner | 1934โ1943 | State Secretary, Prussian Interior Ministry | Retired in August 1943. | |
| Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse | 1933โ1943 | Oberprรคsident, Province of Hesse-Nassau | Dismissed and arrested for complicity in Mussolini's overthrow in September 1943. | |
| Paul Pleiger[5] | 1943โ1945 | Board Chairman, Reichswerke Hermann Gรถring | ||
| Hans Ernst Posse | 1935โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Economics | ||
| Friedrich Reinhart | 1933โ1943 | President, Berlin Chamber of Industry and Trade | Died in office in October 1943. | |
| Ernst Rรถhm | 1933โ1934 | SA-Stabschef | Died in office (murdered in the Rรถhm purge) in July 1934. | |
| Heinrich Sahm | 1935 | Oberbรผrgermeister of Berlin | Resigned in December 1935. | |
| Ferdinand Sauerbruch | 1935โ1945 | Professor of Medicine, Charitรฉ Berlin University of Medicine | ||
| Hjalmar Schacht | 1937โ1943 | President, Reichsbank | Dismissed from all offices in January 1943. | |
| Anton Schifferer | 1933โ1943 | Estate owner in Schleswig-Holstein | Died in office in July 1943. | |
| Rudolf Schmeer | 1935โ1945 | Deputy Leader, German Labor Front | ||
| Carl Schmitt | 1933โ1945 | Professor of Law, Cologne University | ||
| Walter Schuhmann | 1933โ1945 | Reich Chairman, National Socialist Factory Cell Organization | ||
| Franz Schwede | 1934โ1945 | Gauleiter of Pomerania | ||
| Siegfried Seidel-Dittmarsch | 1933โ1934 | SS-Gruppenfรผhrer | Died in office in February 1934. | |
| Gustav Simon | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of Koblenz-Trier | ||
| Alois Spaniol | 1933โ1935 | Landesfรผhrer, Saargebiet | Dismissed in March 1935. | |
| Albert Speer | 1938โ1945 | General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital | ||
| Albert Stange | 1933โ1935 | State Economic Commissioner, Regierungsbezirk Erfurt | Dismissed in October 1935. | |
| Peter Stangier | 1933โ1945 | Deputy Gauleiter of Northern Westphalia | ||
| Emil Georg von Stauss | 1933โ1942 | General Director, Deutsche Bank | Died in office in December 1942. | |
| Wilhelm Stuckart | 1933โ1934 1938โ1945 |
State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Science, Education and Popular Culture State Secretary, Prussian Interior Ministry |
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| Emil Stรผrtz | 1936โ1945 | Gauleiter of Kurmark | ||
| Friedrich Syrup | 1939โ1942 | State Secretary, Prussian Labor Ministry | Dismissed in March 1942 | |
| Otto Telschow | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of Eastern Hanover | ||
| Josef Terboven | 1933โ1945 | Gauleiter of Essen | Died in office (suicide) in May 1945. | |
| Fritz Thyssen | 1933โ1938 | Board Chairman, United Steelworks | Resigned in November 1938. | |
| Heinz Tietjen | 1935โ1945 | Generalintendant, Prussian State Theater | ||
| Adolf von Trotha | 1933โ1940 | Retired Vizeadmiral | Died in office in October 1940. | |
| Hans von Tschammer und Osten | 1936โ1943 | Reich Sports Leader | Died in office in March 1943. | |
| Harald Turner | 1938โ1945 | Ministerial Director, Prussian Finance Ministry | ||
| Curt von Ulrich | 1933โ1944 | SA-Obergruppenfรผhrer | Retired in July 1944. | |
| Gustav Wagemann | 1933 | Ministerial Councilor, Prussian Justice Ministry. | Died in office (in an airplane accident) in December 1933. | |
| Josef Wagner | 1933โ1941 | Gauleiter of Southern Westphalia | Dismissed from all offices in November 1941. | |
| Karl Weinrich | 1933โ1943 | Gauleiter of Kurhessen | Dismissed from all offices in November 1943. | |
| Fritz Weitzel | 1933โ1940 | SS-Gruppenfรผhrer | Died in office (in an air raid) in June 1940. | |
| Theodor Wiegand | 1933โ1936 | President, German Archaeological Institute | Died in office in December 1936. | |
| Werner Willikens | 1933โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Forests | ||
| Helmuth Wohlthat | 1938โ1945 | Ministerial Director, Prussian Economics Ministry | ||
| Udo von Woyrsch | 1933โ1945 | SS-Gruppenfรผhrer | ||
| Werner Zschintzsch | 1936โ1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Science, Education and Popular Culture |
References
editNotes
edit- ^ Date of departure if no longer a member at the end of the Nazi regime. Yellow background if died in office; blue if dismissed from office; pink if resigned or retired from office.
- ^ Date of departure if no longer a member at the end of the Nazi regime. Yellow background if died in office; blue if dismissed from office; pink if resigned or retired from office.
Citations
edit- ^ Lilla, Joachim (2005). Der Preuรische Staatsrat 1921โ1933: Ein biographisches Handbuch. Dรผsseldorf: Droste Verlag. p.ย 295. ISBNย 978-3-770-05271-4.
- ^ Lilla, Joachim (2005). Der Preuรische Staatsrat 1921โ1933: Ein biographisches Handbuch. Dรผsseldorf: Droste Verlag. pp.ย 296โ299. ISBNย 978-3-770-05271-4.
- ^ Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas (2012). Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925โ1945. Vol.ย 1 (Herbert Albrecht - H. Wilhelm Hรผttmann). R. James Bender Publishing. p.ย 362. ISBNย 978-1-932-97021-0.
- ^ Werner Peine, Maler der Nationalsozialismus (1897-1984) in Portal Rhenische Geschichte
- ^ Klee, Ernst (2007). Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Frankfurt-am-Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag. p.ย 464. ISBNย 978-3-596-16048-8.