Cabinet of Joseph Goebbels

2nd Cabinet of Nazi Germany
30 April 1945 – 2 May 1945
Date formed30 April 1945 (1945-04-30)
Date dissolved2 May 1945 (1945-05-02)
People and organisations
Head of stateKarl Dönitz
Head of governmentJoseph Goebbels
Member partyNazi Party
History
PredecessorHitler cabinet
SuccessorFlensburg Government

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. His government was followed by the Flensburg Government under Dönitz.[3]

Composition

PortfolioMinisterTook officeLeft officeParty
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 January 19432 May 1945 NSDAP
Supreme Commander of the Air Force26 April 19458 May 1945 NSDAP
Head of the SS and German Police30 April 19458 May 1945 NSDAP
Reich Minister of Economics5 February 19382 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister for Food and Agriculture23 May 194223 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Justice24 August 19422 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Culture30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Propaganda30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Finance1 June 193223 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Labour
Theo Hupfauer
30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Minister of Armament30 April 19452 May 1945 NSDAP
Leader of the Deutscher Arbeitsfront10 May 19332 May 1945 NSDAP

Retaining some members from the previous Hitler cabinet, some members of the Goebbels cabinet would continue in the Dönitz cabinet.

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 2013-06-02.
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