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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 ...
The Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941 was an encounter between Adolf Hitler and the highest-ranking officials of the Nazi Party. Almost all important party leaders were present to hear Hitler declare the ongoing destruction of the Jewish race, which culminated in the Holocaust .
The Chief of the Reich Chancellery (German: Chef der Reichskanzlei) was the highest-ranking official of the Reich Chancellery and the principal assistant of the Chancellor of Germany. List of officeholders
The historian Martin Kitchen explains that the centralization of power accorded to the Reich Chancellery and therefore to its head made Lammers become "one of the most important men in Nazi Germany". [5] From the vantage point of most government officers, Lammers seemed to speak on behalf of Hitler, the ultimate authority within the Reich.
Soon after Adolf Hitler was appointed as chancellor in 1933, the German Reichstag (parliament) passed the so-called Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), officially titled "Law for Removing the Distress of People and Reich" (German: Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich), which effectively gave the chancellor the power of a ...
November 1937: Hans Lammers, Chief of the Reich Chancellery, becomes a Reich Minister without Portfolio. December 1937: Otto Meissner is granted cabinet rank as Minister of State and Head of the Presidential Chancellery. February 1938: Walther Funk succeeds Göring as Reich Minister of Economics.
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 Führerbunker was located about 8.5 metres (28 ft) beneath the garden of the old Reich Chancellery, 120 meters (390 ft) north of the new Reich Chancellery building at Voßstraße 6. [8] The Führerbunker was located 2.5 meters lower than the Vorbunker and to the west-southwest of it. [8]