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Goebbels Cabinet
Date formed30 April 1945
Date dissolved2 May 1945
People and organisations
Member partyNazi Party
Opposition partyNone
History
ElectionNone
PredecessorHitler Cabinet
SuccessorFlensburg Government

The Joseph 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. The cabinet was short-lived, and was followed on 2 May 1945 by the Flensburg Government.[3] This was caused when Josef Goebbels took his own life on 1 May and Martin Bormann did likewise the following day.

Composition

Retaining some members from the previous Hitler cabinet, some members of the Goebbels cabinet would continue in the Dönitz cabinet consisted of the following people:

Portfolio Minister Took office Left office Party
Reichspräsident30 April 194523 May 1945 NSDAP
Chancellor30 April 19451 May 1945 † NSDAP
Party Minister30 April 19452 May 1945 † NSDAP
Minister for Foreign Affairs30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of the Interior30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of War
Karl Dönitz
30 April 194523 May 1945 NSDAP
Supreme Commander of the Army30 April 19458 May 1945 NSDAP
Supreme Commander of the Navy
Karl Dönitz
30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Supreme Commander of the Air Force30 April 19458 May 1945 NSDAP
Head of the SS and German Police30 April 19458 May 1945 † NSDAP
Reich Minister of Economics30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister for Food and Agriculture23 May 194223 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Justice24 August 194223 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Culture30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Propaganda30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Finance1 June 19322 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Labour30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Armament30 April 194523 May 1945 NSDAP
Leader of the Deutscher Arbeitsfront30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP

References

  1. ^ Adolf Hitler. "Politisches Testament 1945". NS-Archiv Dokumente zum Nationalsozialismus.
  2. ^ Hitler, Adolf. My Political Testament.
  3. ^ Peter Maxwill. "Reichsregierung ohne Reich". SpiegelOnline. Archived from the original on 2013-05-30.
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