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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 February 2025. Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945) "Goebbels" redirects here. For other uses, see Goebbels (disambiguation). Reichsleiter Joseph Goebbels Goebbels in 1933 Chancellor of Germany In office 30 April – 1 May 1945 President Karl Dönitz Preceded by Adolf Hitler Succeeded ...
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) 30 April 1945 1 May 1945 1 day: National Socialist German Workers' Party Goebbels [b] NSDAP — 27: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887–1977) 2 May 1945 23 May 1945 21 days: National Socialist German Workers' Party Schwerin von Krosigk NSDAP
The Goebbels cabinet was named by Adolf Hitler in his political testament of 30 April 1945. [1] [2] To replace himself, Hitler named Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsident and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels as Reichskanzler. The cabinet was short-lived as Goebbels killed himself along with his family on 1 May.
It was protected by Joseph Goebbels' effective propaganda machine, which portrayed Hitler as a heroic and infallible leader. [16] Further, the government was portrayed as a dedicated, dutiful and efficient outfit. Through successive Reichsstatthalter decrees, Germany's states were effectively replaced by Nazi provinces called Gaue.
The Reich Chancellery (German: Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called Reichskanzler) in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875, was the former city palace of Adolf Friedrich Count von der Schulenburg (1685–1741) and ...
With the enlargement of this short-lived federal state to the newly unified and established German Empire ("Second Reich") in 1871, the title was renamed to Reichskanzler (meaning "Imperial Chancellor"). 78 years later after the 1945 defeat in World War II, with the new reorganized Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)'s Basic Law ...
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [4] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. [5]
In 1934, after the death of President Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler, who was already chancellor, assumed the powers of the presidency [2] as Führer und Reichskanzler ("Leader and Chancellor"). In his last will in April 1945, Hitler named Karl Dönitz president, thus briefly reviving the presidential office until just after the German surrender in ...