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 Reichsführer-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.
Prussian State Council (Nazi Germany) Preußischer Staatsrat | |
|---|---|
 Civil flag of Prussia | |
| Type | |
| Type | Advisory body |
| History | |
| Established | 8 July 1933 |
| Disbanded | 8 May 1945 |
| Preceded by | Prussian State Council (Weimar Republic) |
| Succeeded by | Formally abolished, 25 February 1947 |
| Leadership | |
Präsident | |
| Meeting place | |
| New Palace, Potsdam | |
List of ex officio members
edit| Name[1] | Term in office | Qualifying office when appointed | Comments[a] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hermann Göring | 1933–1945 | Prussian Minister president | Dismissed from all offices in April 1945. |
| Walter Darré | 1933–1945 | Prussian Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forests | |
| Julius Dorpmüller | 1937–1945 | Prussian Minister of Transport | |
| Wilhelm Frick | 1934–1945 | Prussian Minister of the Interior | |
| Walther Funk | 1938–1945 | Prussian Minister of Economics | |
| Franz Gürtner | 1934–1935 | Prussian Minister of Justice | Resigned when Prussian Ministry merged with Reich Justice Ministry in April 1935. |
| Hanns Kerrl | 1933–1941 | Prussian Minister of Justice | Resigned as Minister in July 1934, but remained an appointed member and died in office in December 1941. |
| Johannes Popitz | 1933–1944 | Prussian Minister of Finance | Dismissed and arrested in connection with the 20 July plot in July 1944. |
| Bernhard Rust | 1933–1945 | Prussian Minister of Science, Education and Popular Culture | Died in office (suicide) in May 1945. |
| Kurt Schmitt | 1933–1945 | Prussian Minister of Economics and Labor | Resigned as Minister in January 1935, but remained an appointed member until 1945. |
| Franz Seldte | 1935–1945 | Prussian Minister of Labor |
List of appointed members
edit| Name[2] | Term in office | Office or rank when appointed | Comments[b] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Alpers | 1937–1944 | State Secretary, Reich and Prussian State Forestry Office | Died in office (suicide) in September 1944. | |
| August Wilhelm of Prussia | 1933–1945 | SA-Gruppenführer | ||
| Herbert Backe | 1935–1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Food and Agriculture | ||
| Wilhelm Berning | 1933–1945 | Bishop of Osnabrück | ||
| Wilhelm Börger | 1933–1945 | Trustee of Labour for the Rhine Province | ||
| Ernst Brandes | 1933–1935 | Estate owner in East Prussia | Died in office in April 1935. | |
| Rudolf Brinkmann | 1938–1939 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Economics | Resigned and hospitalized for mental illness in May 1939. | |
| Helmuth Brückner | 1933–1934 | Gauleiter of Silesia | Dismissed from all offices in connection with the Röhm purge in December 1934. | |
| Bruno Claußen | 1933–1934 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Economics and Labor | Retired in May 1934. | |
| Leonardo Conti | 1934–1945 | Health Commissioner, Prussian Interior Ministry | ||
| Kurt Daluege | 1933–1945 | SS-Gruppenführer | ||
| Georg von Detten | 1933–1934 | SA-Gruppenführer | Died in office (murdered in the Röhm purge) in July 1934. | |
| Sepp Dietrich | 1933–1945 | SS-Gruppenführer | ||
| Hermann Dohna-Finckenstein | 1933–1942 | Estate owner in West Prussia | Died in office in December 1942. | |
| Otto-Heinrich Drechsler | 1937–1945 | Oberbürgermeister of Lübeck | Died in office (suicide) in May 1945. | |
| Joachim Albrecht Eggeling | 1937–1945 | Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg | Died in office (suicide) in April 1945. | |
| Karl Ernst | 1933–1934 | SA-Gruppenführer | Died in office (murdered in the Röhm purge) in June 1934. | |
| Friedrich Karl Florian | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of Düsseldorf | ||
| Albert Forster | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of Danzig | ||
| Roland Freisler | 1933–1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Justice Ministry | Died in office (in an air raid) in February 1945. | |
| Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven | 1933–1942 | Professor of Law, University of Breslau | Died in office in October 1942. | |
| Wilhelm Furtwängler | 1933–1945 | Principal Conductor, Berlin Philharmonic | ||
| Paul Giesler | 1941–1943 | Gauleiter of Southern Westphalia | Resigned in June 1943. | |
| Artur Görlitzer | 1933–1945 | Deputy Gauleiter of Berlin | Died in office (suicide) in April 1945. | |
| Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz | 1933–1945 | Trustee of Labour, Province of Pomerania | ||
| Ludwig Grauert | 1933–1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Interior Ministry | ||
| Arthur Greiser[3] | 1939–1945 | Gauleiter of Posen | ||
| Erich Gritzbach | 1938–1945 | Chief of the Staff Office, Prussian State Ministry | ||
| Josef Grohé | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of Cologne-Aachen | ||
| Gustaf Gründgens | 1936–1945 | Generalintendant, Prussian State Theater | ||
| Carl von Halfern | 1933–1937 | Oberpräsident, Province of Pomerania | Died in office in October 1937. | |
| Edmund Heines | 1933–1934 | SA-Obergruppenführer | Died in office (murdered in the Röhm purge) in June 1934. | |
| Kurt Herrmann | 1938–1945 | Publisher and industrialist | ||
| Reinhard Heydrich | 1934–1942 | Chief of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) | Died in office (assassinated) in June 1942. | |
| Heinrich Himmler | 1933–1945 | Reichsführer-SS | Dismissed from all offices in April 1945. | |
| Hans Hinkel | 1939–1945 | Department Head, Reich Ministry of Propaganda | ||
| Albert Hoffmann | 1943–1945 | Gauleiter of Southern Westphalia | ||
| Dietrich von Jagow | 1934–1945 | SA-Obergruppenführer | Died in office (suicide) in April 1945. | |
| Karl Jarres | 1933–1945 | Industrialist and business executive | ||
| Hanns Johst | 1934–1945 | First Chairman, German Academy for Poetry | ||
| Rudolf Jordan | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg | ||
| Wilhelm Karpenstein | 1933–1934 | Gauleiter of Pomerania | Dismissed from all offices in connection with the Röhm purge in July 1934. | |
| Walter von Keudell | 1935–1937 | Generalforstmeister | Dismissed in November 1937. | |
| Wilhelm Kleinmann | 1937–1942 | State Secretary, Prussian Transportation Ministry | Dismissed in May 1942. | |
| Erich Koch | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of East Prussia | ||
| Gustav Koenigs | 1935–1940 | State Secretary, Prussian Transportation Ministry | Resigned in February 1940. | |
| Walter Köhler | 1937–1945 | Department Head, Four Year Plan | ||
| Paul Körner | 1933–1945 | State Secretary, Prussian State Ministry | ||
| Friedrich Krebs | 1933–1945 | Oberbürgermeister of Frankfurt | ||
| Johannes Krohn | 1935–1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Labor Ministry | ||
| Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger | 1933–1945 | SA-Obergruppenführer | ||
| Wilhelm Kube | 1933–1936 | Gauleiter of Kurmark | Dismissed from all offices in August 1936. | |
| Wilhelm Kutscher | 1933–1945 | Retired Oberpräsident, Province of East Prussia | ||
| Friedrich Landfried | 1933–1943 | State Secretary, Prussian Finance Ministry | Retired in November 1943. | |
| Hartmann Lauterbacher | 1941–1945 | Gauleiter of Southern Hanover-Brunswick | ||
| Magnus von Levetzow | 1935–1939 | Retired Konteradmiral | Died in office in March 1939. | |
| Robert Ley | 1933–1945 | Chief of Staff, Nazi Party Political Organization | ||
| Julius Lippert | 1937–1940 | Oberbürgermeister and Stadtspräsident of Berlin | Dismissed in July 1940. | |
| Karl Litzmann | 1933–1936 | Retired General der Infanterie | Died in office in May 1936. | |
| Karl-Siegmund Litzmann | 1933–1945 | SA-Obergruppenführer | ||
| Hinrich Lohse | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein | ||
| Ferdinand von Lüninck | 1933–1944 | Oberpräsident, Province of Westphalia | Dismissed and arrested in connection with the 20 July plot in July 1944. | |
| Hermann von Lüninck | 1933–1937 | Oberpräsident, Rhine Province | Dismissed in June 1937. | |
| Viktor Lutze | 1933–1943 | SA-Obergruppenführer | Died in office (in an automobile accident) in May 1943. | |
| Max Luyken | 1933–1935 | SA-Gruppenführer | Resigned in September 1935. | |
| August von Mackensen | 1933–1945 | Retired Generalfeldmarschall | ||
| Wilhelm Meinberg | 1933–1945 | President, Agricultural League | ||
| Kurt Melcher | 1933–1945 | Oberpräsident, Province of Saxony | ||
| Elhard von Morozowicz | 1933–1934 | SA-Gruppenführer | Died in office (in an automobile accident) in January 1934. | |
| Hermann Muhs | 1937–1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry for Church Affairs | ||
| Ludwig Müller | 1933–1945 | Reichsbischof | ||
| Erich Neumann | 1933–1942 | Ministerial Director, Prussian State Ministry | Resigned in August 1942. | |
| Werner Peiner[4] | 1940–1945 | Professor, Hermann Göring Master School for Painting | ||
| Hans Pfundtner | 1934–1943 | State Secretary, Prussian Interior Ministry | Retired in August 1943. | |
| Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse | 1933–1943 | Oberpräsident, Province of Hesse-Nassau | Dismissed and arrested for complicity in Mussolini's overthrow in September 1943. | |
| Paul Pleiger[5] | 1943–1945 | Board Chairman, Reichswerke Hermann Göring | ||
| Hans Ernst Posse | 1935–1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Economics | ||
| Friedrich Reinhart | 1933–1943 | President, Berlin Chamber of Industry and Trade | Died in office in October 1943. | |
| Ernst Röhm | 1933–1934 | SA-Stabschef | Died in office (murdered in the Röhm purge) in July 1934. | |
| Heinrich Sahm | 1935 | Oberbürgermeister of Berlin | Resigned in December 1935. | |
| Ferdinand Sauerbruch | 1935–1945 | Professor of Medicine, Charité Berlin University of Medicine | ||
| Hjalmar Schacht | 1937–1943 | President, Reichsbank | Dismissed from all offices in January 1943. | |
| Anton Schifferer | 1933–1943 | Estate owner in Schleswig-Holstein | Died in office in July 1943. | |
| Rudolf Schmeer | 1935–1945 | Deputy Leader, German Labor Front | ||
| Carl Schmitt | 1933–1945 | Professor of Law, Cologne University | ||
| Walter Schuhmann | 1933–1945 | Reich Chairman, National Socialist Factory Cell Organization | ||
| Franz Schwede | 1934–1945 | Gauleiter of Pomerania | ||
| Siegfried Seidel-Dittmarsch | 1933–1934 | SS-Gruppenführer | Died in office in February 1934. | |
| Gustav Simon | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of Koblenz-Trier | ||
| Alois Spaniol | 1933–1935 | Landesführer, Saargebiet | Dismissed in March 1935. | |
| Albert Speer | 1938–1945 | General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital | ||
| Albert Stange | 1933–1935 | State Economic Commissioner, Regierungsbezirk Erfurt | Dismissed in October 1935. | |
| Peter Stangier | 1933–1945 | Deputy Gauleiter of Northern Westphalia | ||
| Emil Georg von Stauss | 1933–1942 | General Director, Deutsche Bank | Died in office in December 1942. | |
| Wilhelm Stuckart | 1933–1934 1938–1945 |
State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Science, Education and Popular Culture State Secretary, Prussian Interior Ministry |
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| Emil Stürtz | 1936–1945 | Gauleiter of Kurmark | ||
| Friedrich Syrup | 1939–1942 | State Secretary, Prussian Labor Ministry | Dismissed in March 1942 | |
| Otto Telschow | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of Eastern Hanover | ||
| Josef Terboven | 1933–1945 | Gauleiter of Essen | Died in office (suicide) in May 1945. | |
| Fritz Thyssen | 1933–1938 | Board Chairman, United Steelworks | Resigned in November 1938. | |
| Heinz Tietjen | 1935–1945 | Generalintendant, Prussian State Theater | ||
| Adolf von Trotha | 1933–1940 | Retired Vizeadmiral | Died in office in October 1940. | |
| Hans von Tschammer und Osten | 1936–1943 | Reich Sports Leader | Died in office in March 1943. | |
| Harald Turner | 1938–1945 | Ministerial Director, Prussian Finance Ministry | ||
| Curt von Ulrich | 1933–1944 | SA-Obergruppenführer | Retired in July 1944. | |
| Gustav Wagemann | 1933 | Ministerial Councilor, Prussian Justice Ministry. | Died in office (in an airplane accident) in December 1933. | |
| Josef Wagner | 1933–1941 | Gauleiter of Southern Westphalia | Dismissed from all offices in November 1941. | |
| Karl Weinrich | 1933–1943 | Gauleiter of Kurhessen | Dismissed from all offices in November 1943. | |
| Fritz Weitzel | 1933–1940 | SS-Gruppenführer | Died in office (in an air raid) in June 1940. | |
| Theodor Wiegand | 1933–1936 | President, German Archaeological Institute | Died in office in December 1936. | |
| Werner Willikens | 1933–1945 | State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Forests | ||
| Helmuth Wohlthat | 1938–1945 | Ministerial Director, Prussian Economics Ministry | ||
| Udo von Woyrsch | 1933–1945 | SS-Gruppenführer | ||
| Werner Zschintzsch | 1936–1945 | 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 Preußische Staatsrat 1921–1933: Ein biographisches Handbuch. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag. p. 295. ISBN 978-3-770-05271-4.
- ^ Lilla, Joachim (2005). Der Preußische Staatsrat 1921–1933: Ein biographisches Handbuch. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag. pp. 296–299. ISBN 978-3-770-05271-4.
- ^ Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas (2012). Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925–1945. Vol. 1 (Herbert Albrecht - H. Wilhelm Hüttmann). R. James Bender Publishing. p. 362. ISBN 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. 464. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8.