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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 Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-831-77404-2. Snyder, Louis L. (1976). Encyclopedia of the Third Reich. McGraw Hill Inc. ISBN 978-1569249178. Wistrich, Robert (1982). Who's Who in Nazi Germany. Macmillan Publishing Co. ISBN 0-02-630600-X. Faber, David (2009). Munich, 1938: Appeasement and World War II. Simon ...
Neurath remains a Reich Minister (without portfolio). February 1938: Blomberg resigns as Reich Minister of War and his office is abolished. General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, is granted cabinet rank. February 1938: Walther von Brauchitsch succeeds Fritsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is granted ...
Hanns Kerrl – Reich Minister of Church Affairs and First Deputy President of the Reichstag until his death in 1941. Dietrich Klagges – Minister President of the Free State of Brunswick between 1933 and 1945. Matthias Kleinheisterkamp – SS-Obergruppenführer; divisional leader of SS divisions Das Reich and Nord.
Philipp Bouhler, chief of the KdF and Action T4 programme. The chancellery was established in November 1934 in Berlin as a separate agency, which was parallel to the German Reich Chancellery under Hans Heinrich Lammers and the Nazi Party Chancellery (until 1941: "Staff of the Deputy Führer"), led by Martin Bormann. [4]
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 ]
The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex: An Illustrated History of the Seat of the Nazi Regime is a 2006 book by Steven Lehrer, in which Lehrer recounts the history of a group of Berlin buildings, from their construction in the 18th century until their complete destruction during and after World War II.
On 26 November 1937, his rank in the Hitler cabinet was elevated to Reichsminister and he retained his post as Chief of the Reich Chancellery. [ 1 ] On 30 August 1939, immediately prior to the outbreak of the Second World War , Lammers was appointed by Hitler to the six-person Council of Ministers for Defense of the Reich , which was set up to ...