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Abdicated German Houses, Nobilities and [[Gaue]] (1918)
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|'''[[Abdication of Wilhelm II|Emperor]]:''' '''''4 Kings and Kingdoms''''': [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]],{{efn|[[File:Wappen Deutsches Reich - Reichsadler 1889.svg|40px|Wilhelm II. King Prussia: Abdicated on 9-11 / NSDAP 1925/31/35]]}} [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]],{{efn|[[File:Wittelsbach Arms.svg|40px|Ludwig III, King Bavaria Abdicated on 13-11.]]}} [[Kingdom of Württemberg|Württemberg]],{{efn|[[ File:Wappen Herzogtum Württemberg.svg|40px|William II, King Württemberg. Abdicated on 30-11. / NSDAP 1936-37.]]}} [[Kingdom of Saxony|Saxony]],{{efn|[[File:Coat of arms of Saxony.svg|40px|Frederick Augustus III, King Saxony. Abdicated on 13-11]]}} '''''6 Grand-Dukes and Grand Duchies''''': [[Grand Duchy of Baden|Baden]],{{efn|[[File:Wappen Zaehringer.png|40px|Frederick III, Grand Duke Baden. Abdicated on 22-11]]}} [[Grand Duchy of Hesse|Hesse]],{{efn|[[File:Hesse Darmstadt coat of armes (1736).gif|40px|Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. Abdicated on 9-11 / NSDAP 1930-31-32-37-38]]}} [[Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Mecklenburg-Schwerin]],{{efn|[[File:Coat of Arms of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg - Schwerin.svg|40px|Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Abdicated on 14-11 / NSDAP 1931.]]}} [[Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz|Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], [[Grand Duchy of Oldenburg|Oldenburg]],{{efn|[[File:Blason Adolphe de Holstein-Gottorp.svg|40px|Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Abdicated on 11-11 / NSDAP 1937.]]}} [[Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]],{{efn|[[File:Blason Grand-Duché de Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.svg|40px|William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Abdicated on 9-11]]}} '''''5 Dukes and Duchies''''': [[Duchy of Anhalt|Anhalt]],{{efn|[[File:Coat of Arms of the Duchy of Anhalt.svg|40px|Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt. Abdicated on 12-11 / NSDAP 1934]]}} [[Duchy of Brunswick|Brunswick]],{{efn|[[File:CoA Hannover.svg|40px|Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick. Abdicated on 8-11]]}} [[Saxe-Altenburg]],{{efn|[[File:Wappen Altenburg.svg|44px|Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Abdicated on 13-11 / NSDAP 1937]]}} [[Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]],{{efn|[[File:Standard of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.svg|40px|Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Abdicated on 14-11 / NSDAP 1930-32-33-39]]}} [[Saxe-Meiningen]].{{efn|[[File:Blason Duché de Saxe-Meiningen.svg|40px|Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Abdicated on 10-11 / NSDAP 1932-33]]}} '''''7 Princes and Principalities''''': [[Principality of Lippe|Lippe]],{{efn|[[File:Lippe-Schwalenberg.PNG|40px|Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe. Abdicated on 12-11 / NSDAP 1928-33-35-37]]}} [[Reuss Junior Line|Reuss, junior line]],{{efn|[[File:Weida Vögte von Weida (die Grafen Reuß).png|40px|Heinrich XXVII, Prince Reuss Younger Line. Abdicated on 11-11 / NSDAP 1930-33-35]]}} [[Reuss Elder Line|Reuss, senior line]],{{efn|[[File:Arms of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz.svg|40px|Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz. Abdicated on 10-11]]}} [[Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe|Schaumburg-Lippe]], [[Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]],{{efn|[[File:Coat of Arms of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.svg|40px|Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg. Abdicated on 22-11]]}} [[Schwarzburg-Sondershausen]], [[Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont|Waldeck-Pyrmont]].{{efn|[[File:Coat of Arms of the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont.svg|40px|Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Abdicated on 13-11 / NSDAP 1929-41]]}}
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[[Former German nobility in the Nazi Party]] (uploaded my 155,672 Bytes, in one hit!).<br>
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| '''[[NSDAP]]''' ''[[Reichsgau]]'' (1925+): [[Gau Baden|Baden-Alsace]],{{efn-lr|[[File:RobertWagner.JPG|43px|Robert Wagner, Gauleiter of Gau Baden (1928-1945)]]}} [[Gau Bayreuth|Bayreuth]],{{efn-lr|[[File:FritzWachtler.jpg|43px|Fritz Wächtler, Gauleiter of Gau Bayreuth (1935-1945)]]}} [[Gau Berlin|Berlin]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1968-101-20A, Joseph Goebbels.jpg|42px|Joseph Goebbels Gauleiter of Gau Berlin, (1928-1945)]]}} [[Gau Cologne-Aachen|Cologne–Aachen]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Josef_Grohé.jpg|45px|Josef Grohé Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen, (1931-1945)]]}} [[Gau Düsseldorf|Düsseldorf]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2005-1129-500, Friedrich Karl Florian.jpg|42px|Friedrich Karl Florian Gauleiter of Gau Düsseldorf, (1930-1945)]]}} [[Gau Eastern Hanover|Eastern Hanover]], [[Gau East Prussia|East Prussia]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H13717,_Erich_Koch.jpg|42px|Erich Koch Gauleiter of Gau East Prussia, (1925-1945)]]}} [[Gau Electoral Hesse|Electoral Hesse]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-052-1435-20, Oberrhein, Befestigung am Isteiner Klotz.jpg|39px|Karl Weinrich Gauleiter of Gau Electoral Hesse, (1928-1943)]]}} [[Gau Essen|Essen]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Terboven_statsakten.jpg|38px|Josef Terboven Gauleiter of Gau Essen (1928-1945)]]}} [[Gau Franconia|Franconia]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1997-011-24,_Julius_Streicher.jpg|40px|Julius Streicher Gauleiter of Gau Franconia, (1929-1945)]]}} [[Gau Halle-Merseburg|Halle-Merseburg]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2005-0027, Rudolf Jordan.jpg|42px|Rudolf Jordan Gauleiter of Gau Halle-Merseburg, (1925-1945)]]}} [[Gau Hamburg|Hamburg]], [[Gau Hesse-Nassau|Hesse-Nassau]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Jakob_Sprenger.jpg|45px|Jakob Sprenger Gauleiter of Gau Hesse-Nassau, (1933-1945)]]}} [[Gau Lower Silesia|Lower Silesia]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Karl Hanke (1945).jpg|44px|Karl Hanke Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia, (1941-1945)]]}} [[Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt|Magdeburg-Anhalt]], [[Gau Main Franconia|Main Franconia]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Otto_Hellmuth.jpg|45px|Otto Hellmuth Gauleiter of Gau Main Franconia, (1929-1945)]]}} [[Gau March of Brandenburg|March of Brandenburg]], [[Gau Mecklenburg|Mecklenburg]], [[Gau Moselland|Moselland]], [[Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria|Munich–Upper Bavaria]], [[Gau Pomerania|Pomerania]], [[Gau Saxony|Saxony]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Leipzig International Fair 1937 (Martin Mutschmann).jpg|46px|Martin Mutschmann Gauleiter of Gau Saxony, (1925-1945)]]}} [[Gau Schleswig-Holstein|Schleswig-Holstein]], [[Gau Silesia|Silesia]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2008-0617-500, Helmuth Brückner.jpg|46px|Helmuth Brückner. Gauleiter of Gau Silesia (1925-1934)]]}} [[Gau Swabia|Swabia]], [[Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick|Southern Hanover–Brunswick]], [[Gau Thuringia|Thuringia]], [[Gau Upper Silesia|Upper Silesia]], [[Gau Weser-Ems|Weser-Ems]], [[Gau Westphalia-North|Westphalia-North]], [[Gau Westphalia-South|Westphalia-South]], [[Gau Westmark|Westmark]],{{efn-lr|[[File:Josef_Bürckel.jpg|44px|Josef_Bürckel Gauleiter of Gau Westmark, (1935-1944)]]}} [[Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern|Württemberg-Hohenzollern]]
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| colspan=2 |<center>German nobility claims to Countries (1918).{{space|8}}</center>
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| '''''[[House of Hanover]] claims''''':- [[Queen consort of Germany|Germany]], [[Queen consort of Prussia|Prussia]], [[Empress of India|India]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Great Britain]], [[King of Ireland|Ireland]], [[King of France|France]], [[Queen consort of Denmark|Denmark]], [[Queen consort of Norway|Norway]], [[Queen consort of Hungary|Hungary]]. '''''[[House of Wittelsbach|Wittelsbach]] claims''''':- [[King of Denmark|Denmark]], [[King of Sweden|Sweden]], [[King of Norway|Norway]], [[King of Greece|Greece]]. '''''[[House of Wettin|Wettin]] claims''''':- [[United Kingdom]], [[British Empire]], [[Emperor of India|India]], [[King of Poland|Poland]], [[Grand Duke of Lithuania|Lithuania]], [[Duke of Warsaw|Warsaw]], [[King of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], [[King of Portugal|Portugal]], [[Algarves]], [[King of the Belgians|Belgium]]. '''''[[House of Hesse|Hesse]] claims''''':- [[King of Sweden|Sweden]], [[King of Finland|Finland]]. '''''[[House of Oldenburg|Oldenberg]] claims''''':- [[Emperor of Russia|Russia]], [[King of Denmark|Denmark]], [[King of Norway|Norway]], [[King of Sweden|Sweden]], [[King of Greece|Greece]], [[King of Iceland|Iceland]]. '''''[[House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha|Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] claims''''':- [[United Kingdom]], [[King of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]], [[Ireland]], [[King of the Belgians|Belgium]], [[King of Portugal|Portugal]], [[Algarves]], [[Tsar of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]].
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|+|Refounded '''NSDAP''' ( 27 Feb 1925 )
| align=center style="width: 4em;"| <small>''no'' <big>'''20'''</big> <ref>'''No 20. Wilhelm Holzwarth;''' Robert Probst: ''The NSDAP in the Bavarian Landtag 1924-1933.'' 1998, p. 61.[https://www.hdbg.de/parlament/content/persDetail.php?id=960]</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''6'''</big></small>[[File:Lakeyboy Silhouette.PNG|center|50px|No 20. Wilhelm Holzwarth]][[:de:Wilhelm Holzwarth|<small>Wilhelm Holzwarth</small>]]
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''21'''</big><br>''rank''<br><big>'''5'''</big> </small>[[File:Lakeyboy Silhouette.PNG|center|50px]]''<small>unknown? un-named?</small>''
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''22'''</big> <ref>'''No 22. Joseph Goebbels;''' Institute of Contemporary History: ''Mecklenburg in World War II). The meetings of the Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the Nazi governing bodies of the Gaues Mecklenburg 1939-1945. An edition of the session minutes.'' 2009, s. 1017.</ref> <br>''rank''<br><big>'''4'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A,_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg|center|50px|No 22. Joseph Goebbels]]<small>[[Joseph Goebbels]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''23'''</big> <ref>'''No 23. Hermann Göring;''' Werner Maser: ''Hermann Göring. Hitler's Janus-headed Paladin - The Political Biography''. Edition q, Berlin 2000, S. 74 f.</ref> <br>''rank''<br><big>'''3'''</big></small>[[File:Hermann_Göring_-_Röhr.jpg|center|50px|No 23. Hermann Göring]] <small>[[Hermann Göring]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''24'''</big> <ref>'''No 24. Crown Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia;''' Walter Hofer: ''The Reichstag fire.'' 1992, s. 521.</ref> <br>''rank''<br><big>'''2'''</big></small>[[File:Berlin, Sportpalast, August Wilhelm v. Preußen.jpg|center|50px|No 24. Crown Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia]] <small>[[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia|<small>Crown prince Wilhelm</small>]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''1'''</big> <ref>'''No 1. Adolf Hitler;''' faksimile of his party membership card, printed in [[Richard Bauer (historian)| Richard Bauer]] (ed.): ''Munich, "Capital of the Movement". Bavaria's metropolis and National Socialism.'' Exhibition volume. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 1993, {{ISBN|3-7814-0362-9}}, p. 169.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''1'''</big></small> <small>[[Adolf Hitler|Adolf<br>Hitler]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''2'''</big> <ref>'''No 2. Hermann Esser;''' [[Wolfgang Benz]] (eds.): ''Handbook of Anti-Semitism.'' Vol. 2/I: Persons A-K. 2009, p. 217.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''24'''</big></small>[[File:Hermann Esser.jpg|center|50px|No 2. Hermann Esser]]<small>[[Hermann Esser]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''3'''</big> <ref>'''No 3. Max Amann;''' Konrad Dussel: ''German Daily Press in the 19th and 20th Century.'' 2004, s. 154.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''23'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 119-2186, Max Amann.jpg|center|52px|No 3. Max Amann]]<small>[[Max Amann|Max<br>Amann]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''4'''</big> <ref>'''No 4. Rudolf Buttmann;''' ''Voices of Time: Monthly Script for The Spiritual Life of the Present.'' Vol. 226. 2008, s. 861.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''22'''</big></small>[[File:Lakeyboy Silhouette.PNG|center|50px|No 4. Rudolf Buttmann]][[:de:Rudolf Buttmann|<small>Rudolf Buttmann</small>]]
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''5'''</big> <ref>'''No 5. Arthur Dinter;''' Wolfgang Benz: ''Organisations, institutions, movements.'' 2012, s. 214.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''21'''</big></small>[[File:Arthur Dinter, Bundesarchiv Bild 119-1416jpg.jpg|center|46px|No 5. Arthur Dinter]]<small>[[:de:Artur Dinter|Arthur Dinter]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''6'''</big> <ref>'''No 6. Franz Xaver Schwarz;''' Institute for Contemporary History: ''Mecklenburg in World War II.'' 2009, s. 1070.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''20'''</big></small>[[File:Franz Xaver Schwarz calendar.jpg|center|50px|No 6. Franz Xaver Schwarz]]<small>[[Franz Xaver Schwarz]]</small>
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| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''18'''</big> <ref>'''No 18. Alfred Rosenberg;''' Institute for Contemporary History: ''Mecklenburg in World War II. The meetings of the Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the Nazi governing bodies of the Gaues Mecklenburg 1939-1945. An edition of the session minutes.'' 2009, s. 1060.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''8'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1985-0723-500, Alfred Rosenberg headcrop.jpg|center|55px|No 18. Alfred Rosenberg]]<small>[[Alfred Rosenberg]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''17'''</big> <ref>'''No 17. Julius Streicher;''' Institute for Contemporary History: ''Mecklenburg in World War II. The meetings of the Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the Nazi governing bodies of the Gaues Mecklenburg 1939-1945. An edition of the session minutes.'' 2009, s. 1074.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''9'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1997-011-24, Julius Streicher.jpg|center|47px|No 17. Julius Streicher]]<small>[[Julius Streicher]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''16'''</big> <ref>'''No 16. Rudolf Heß;''' Kurt Pätzold: ''Rudolf Hess.'' 1999, s. 61.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''10'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146II-849, Rudolf Heß.jpg|center|46px|No 16. Rudolf Heß]]<small>[[Rudolf Hess|Rudolf<br>Hess]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''15'''</big> <ref>'''No 15. Christian Weber;''' Andreas Heusler: ''The Brown House. How Munich became the capital of the movement.'' 2008, s. 192.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''11'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 119-5590, Christian Weber.jpg|center|51px|No 15. Christian Weber]]<small>[[Christian Weber]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''14'''</big> <ref>'''No 14. Hans Frank;''' Joachim Lilla, Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: ''Statisten in Uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945. A biographical manual. With the involvement of the people and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924.'' Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, {{ISBN|3-7700-5254-4}}, p. 150.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''12'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1989-011-13, Hans Frank.jpg|center|50px|No 14. Hans Frank]]<small>[[Hans Frank|Hans<br>Frank]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''13'''</big> <ref>'''No 13. Otto May;''' [[Rainer F. Schmidt| Rainer Friedrich Schmidt]]: ''Pioneer of Propaganda – The Kulmbacher Otto May and the foundation of Nazi propaganda.'' In: Ulrich Wirz, [[Franz Meußdoerffer (biochemist)| Franz Georg Meußdoerffer]] (eds.): ''Rund um die Plassenburg. Studies on the history of the city of Kulmbach and its castle'' (= ''The Plassenburg.'' Vol. 53). Friends of the Plassenburg, Kulmbach 2003, {{ISBN|3-925162-21-6}}, p. 390.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''13'''</big></small>[[File:Lakeyboy Silhouette.PNG|center|50px|No 13. Otto May]][[Otto May (journalist)|<small>Otto<br>May</small>]]
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''12'''</big> <ref>'''No 12. Phillip Bouhler;''' Peter Przybylski: ''Täter next to Hitler.'' 1990, S. 146.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''14'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1983-094-01, Phillip Bouhler.jpg|center|50px|No 12. Phillip Bouhler]]<small>[[Phillip Bouhler]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''11'''</big> <ref>'''No 11. Gottfried Feder;''' [[Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann]]: ''National Socialism and Working Class Milieus: The National Socialist Attack on the Proletarian Residential Quarters and the Reaction in the Socialist Associations.'' 1998, s. 108.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''15'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R16259, Gottfried Feder.jpg|center|46px|No 11. Gottfried Feder]]<small>[[Gottfried Feder]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''10'''</big> <ref>'''No 10. Wilhelm Frick;''' Günther Neliba: ''Wilhelm Frick'', 1992, p. 43 indicates 1 September 1925 as the date of entry. Since the other members of this number were admitted on 27 February 1925, this must also apply to Frick.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''16'''</big></small>[[File:Wilhelm Frick.jpg|center|52px|No 10. Wilhelm Frick]]<small>[[Wilhelm Frick]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''9'''</big> <ref>'''No 9. Gregor Strasser;''' Udo Kissenkoetter: ''Gregor Strasser and the NSDAP.'' 1978, s. 21.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''17'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 119-1721, Gregor Strasser.jpg|center|43px|No 9. Gregor Strasser]]<small>[[Gregor Strasser]]</small>
| align=center style="width: 4em;"|<small>''no'' <big>'''8'''</big> <ref>'''No 8. Ulrich Graf;''' Anton Joachimsthaler: ''Hitler's List.'' 2003, s. 578.</ref><br>''rank''<br><big>'''18'''</big></small>[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1982-1213-500, Ulrich Graf.jpg|center|50px|No 8. Ulrich Graf]]<small>[[Ulrich Graf|Ulrich<br>Graf]]</small>
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| <center>[[NSDAP]]<br>''no'': '''1'''<br>[[File:Flag of the NSDAP (1920–1945).svg|25px]]<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''1st'''</center>
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| '''[[Adolf Hitler]]:'''<ref>faksimile of his party membership card, printed in [[Richard Bauer (historian)| Richard Bauer]] (ed.): ''Munich, "Capital of the Movement". Bavaria's metropolis and National Socialism.'' Exhibition volume. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 1993, {{ISBN|3-7814-0362-9}}, p. 169.</ref><br><br>Author: [[Mein Kampf]] (''political manifesto''). Politician: Leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. (German: ''[[Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei]]'' [[NSDAP]]) known as [[Nazi Party]]. Absolute dictator of Germany, 1934 to 1945. German [[Chancellor]], 1933 to 1945. German [[Head of state]] ([[Führer und Reichskanzler]]), 1934 to 1945.
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''2'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''24th'''</center>
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| '''[[Hermann Esser]]:'''<ref>[[Wolfgang Benz]] (eds.): ''Handbook of Anti-Semitism.'' Vol. 2/I: Persons A-K. 2009, p. 217.</ref><br>Publisher: [[Mein Kampf]]. First head of [[propaganda]] (1923-1925). Floor leader in [[Munich]]'s city council (1929-1933). Elected to [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] representing Upper Bavaria-Swabia (1933). Bavaria's minister of economics, ''after persuading General [[Franz Ritter von Epp]]''. A public speaker of extreme nationalism and [[anti-Semitism]], he roused his audiences to attack the political meetings of those NSDAP frowned upon. Not at [[Beer Hall Putsch]].
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''3'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''23rd'''</center>
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| '''[[Max Amann]]:'''<ref>Konrad Dussel: ''German Daily Press in the 19th and 20th Century.'' 2004, s. 154.</ref><br>Business manager (1921). Reich Press Chamber President. Led the NSDAP publishing house, [[Eher Verlag]] (1922), inc; [[SS]] magazine ''[[Das Schwarze Korps]]''. Elected NSDAP candidate to Munich city council (1924). Elected NSDAP member of the Reichstag for [[Upper Bavaria]]/[[Swabia]] (1933). By 1942, Amann controlled 80% of all German newspapers through his publishing empire.<ref name=RiseFall>{{cite book | last = Shirer | first = William L. | authorlink = William L. Shirer | title = [[The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich|The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History Of Nazi Germany]] | publisher = Simon & Schuster | location = New York | year = 1960 | isbn = 978-0-671-62420-0}}</ref> During [[World War I]] he had rank of ''[[Feldwebel]]'' in the Royal Bavarian 16th Infantry Regiment, as [[Adolf Hitler]]'s company sergeant.
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''4'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''22nd'''</center>
| <center>[[:de:Rudolf Buttmann|(''image-de'')]]</center>
| '''[[Rudolf Buttmann]]:'''<ref>''Voices of Time: Monthly Script for The Spiritual Life of the Present.'' Vol. 226. 2008, s. 861.</ref><br>NSDAP Chairman 1925-1933. Reich Leadership 1932-1933. Reichstag 1933-1945. Previous member of [[National Liberal Party]]. Co-founded German National People's Party ([[DNVP]]) (1919-1922),<ref>Wolfgang Mück (2016), S. 253.</ref> Elected to the [[Bavarian Landtag]] for ([[DVB]]), (1924-1933). Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Transport (1932-1933). Buttmann aspired to the office of [[Bavaria]]n [[Prime Minister]] in a coalition government of the NSDAP with the [[Bavarian People's Party]]. After 30 January 1933, with [[Ernst Röhm]], [[Adolf Wagner]] and [[Hans Schemm]], advocated a revolutionary takeover of power in [[Bavaria]].<ref>[[Wolfgang Dierker]], [http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/2002_1_5_dierker.pdf Ich will keine Nullen] (PDF-Datei; 1,58 MB), sondern Bullen, Hitlers Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der Bayerischen Volkspartei im März 1933</ref>
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''5'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''21st'''</center>
| [[File:Arthur Dinter, Bundesarchiv Bild 119-1416jpg.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Artur Dinter]]:'''<ref>Wolfgang Benz: ''Organisations, institutions, movements.'' 2012, s. 214.</ref><br>NSDAP State Leader [[Thuringia]], appointed by Hitler from [[Landsberg Prison]] (1924). NB: Only State not to ban the Nazi Party after the [[Beer Hall Putsch]] in [[Munich]] (in 1923).<ref>Dietrich Orlow: The History of the Nazi Party: 1919-1933 (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1969, p. 49, {{ISBN|0-8229-3183-4}}.</ref>. Elected as Leader of [[Thuringia]]n [[Landtag]] faction of the (electoral alliance) ''Völkisch-Sozialer Block'' ("Peoples Social Bloc"),(in 1924). Expelled from the [[VSB]] party (in 1924). Hitler appointed him ''Landesleiter'', later re-designated [[Gauleiter]], of [[Thuringia]], (1925).<ref>Michael D. Miller & Andreas Schulz: ''Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925-1945, Volume I (Herbert Albrecht - H. Wilhelm Hüttmann)'', R. James Bender Publishing, 2012, p. 118, {{ISBN|1-932970-21-5}}.</ref> Publisher of ''Der National sozialist''. Co-founder of the ''Deutsch-Völkische Freiheitspartei'', ("German- Peoples Freedom Party"). Leader and co-founder of ''Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund'' (1919 banned 1922).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''6'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''20th'''</center>
| [[File:Franz Xaver Schwarz1.png|center|70px]]
| '''[[Franz Xaver Schwarz]]:'''<ref>Institute for Contemporary History: ''Mecklenburg in World War II.'' 2009, s. 1070.</ref><br>NSDAP National Treasurer; ''financial - administrative functions'' (1925–1945). Head of [[Reichszeugmeisterei]] or ("National Material Control Office"). Negotiated purchase of NSDAP headquarters, the [[Brown House, Munich, Germany|Brown House]] at 45 Brienner Straße in Munich, (1930). Elected to the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] representing [[Franconia]], (1933-1945). ''[[Reichsleiter]]'' (Reich Leader - second highest NSDAP political rank), joining the [[Schutzstaffel]], (SS member# 38,500), as [[SS]]-''[[Obergruppenführer]]'', (1933). Promoted to new rank of SS-''[[Oberst-Gruppenführer]]'', (''one of only four to ever hold that rank''), (1942). A Fundraiser for [[Mein Kampf]]. At [[Beer Hall Putsch]] with Hitler.
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''7'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''19th'''</center>
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| NSDAP Member number 7, Ranked at 19th (is ''Not named to date'').<br>NSDAP Member number 19, Ranked at 7th (is ''Not named to date'').
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''8'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''18th'''</center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1982-1213-500, Ulrich Graf.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Ulrich Graf]]:'''<ref>Anton Joachimsthaler: ''Hitler's List.'' 2003, s. 578.</ref><br>Hitler's Bodyguard. Member of [[German Workers' Party]] ([[DAP]]), (1919), renamed [[NSDAP]] when taken over by Hitler. Early member of [[SA]] - [[Sturmabteilung]] (''[[Brown shirts]] - [[Storm trooper]]s''), (founded 1920), first paramilitary protection squad used to protect NSDAP officials, and keep order at NASDAP Party (''and at rivals'') meetings. Hitler's personal [[bodyguard]], from the [[Stoßtrupp-Hitler]] unit, (from 1923). With Hitler at [[Beer Hall Putsch]], throwing himself on Hitler taking five bullets, (1925).<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-49155723]</ref> Elected Councillor in [[Munich]], (1924 & 1929 & 1935). [[Sturmbannführer]] in the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]], (1933). Elected to [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]], (1933).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''9'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''17th'''</center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 119-1721, Gregor Strasser.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Gregor Strasser]]:'''<ref>Udo Kissenkoetter: ''Gregor Strasser and the NSDAP.'' 1978, s. 21.</ref><br>NSDAP: National Leader for Propaganda, (1926-1927). Member [[Freikorps]], (to suppress [[Communism]] in [[Bavaria]]), (1919), taken over by Hitler and NSDAP, (1920). Established and commanded ''Sturmbataillon Niederbayern'' ("Storm Battalion Lower Bavaria"), with [[Heinrich Himmler]] as his adjutant. Member of [[Sturmabteilung|SA]], as Regional Head of [[Sturmabteilung]] ("Storm Detachment"; SA) in [[Lower Bavaria]], (1922). With Hitler at [[Beer Hall Putsch]], imprisoned, but released early after being elected member of the Bavarian [[Landtag]] for the NSDAP-associated "[[Völkisch movement|Völkischer]] Block". Sat for "völkisch" [[National Socialist Freedom Movement]] in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]], for [[Westphalia North]] (1924). Strasser and his ''assistant'' '''[[Heinrich Himmler]]''', expanding the NSDAP organization in [[Lower Bavaria]]. First [[Gauleiter]] of Lower Bavaria (1925). After the partition of this [[Gau (German)#The Nazi Party Gaue|Gau]], he was ''Gauleiter'' of Lower Bavaria (1928-1929). Deputized (by Hitler) to represent NSDAP, travelling throughout N&W Germany appointing Gauleiters, setting up party branches, and delivering speeches, (1925). National Leader for Propaganda, (1926-1927). Founded; [[Berlin]] ''Kampf-Verlag'' ("Combat Publishing") appointing [[Joseph Goebbels]] managing editor, (1926). Executed at [[Night of the Long Knives]], ordered by Hitler, [[Hermann Göring|Göring]] and Himmler, (1934).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''10'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''16th'''</center>
| [[File:Wilhelm Frick.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Wilhelm Frick]]:'''<ref>Günther Neliba: ''Wilhelm Frick'', 1992, p. 43 indicates 1 September 1925 as the date of entry. Since the other members of this number were admitted on 27 February 1925, this must also apply to Frick.</ref><br>NSDAP: [[parliamentary group leader]] (''Fraktionsführer'') (in 1928). NSDAP: [[German Reich|Reich]] Minister of the [[Interior ministry|Interior]] in [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Hitler Cabinet|cabinet]], (1933-1943).<ref>[[Claudia Koonz]], ''The Nazi Conscience'', p 103, {{ISBN|0-674-01172-4}}</ref> until replaced by [[Heinrich Himmler]] (1943), but remained as a cabinet minister without portfolio (until 1945). Together with Reichstag President [[Hermann Göring|Göring]], he was one of only two Nazi Reich Ministers in the original Hitler Cabinet. Head of the ''[[Kriminalpolizei]]'' (criminal police) in [[Munich]]. Appointed [[Free State of Prussia|Prussian]] [[Minister of the Interior]] under Minister-President ''Göring'', to control all of the Prussian police, (1934). With Hitler at the [[Beer Hall Putsch]]. Last Governor of [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]]. With [[Gregor Strasser|Strasser]], he formulated the [[Gleichschaltung]] laws, [[Racial policy of Nazi Germany|Nazi racial policy]], and also the ''notorious'' [[Nuremberg Laws]].
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''11'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''15th'''</center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R16259, Gottfried Feder.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Gottfried Feder]]:'''<ref>[[Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann]]: ''National Socialism and Working Class Milieus: The National Socialist Attack on the Proletarian Residential Quarters and the Reaction in the Socialist Associations.'' 1998, s. 108.</ref><br>NSDAP Party Leader elected to the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]], (''demanding the dispossession of [[Jew]]ish citizens'').(1924-1936). Leader of the anti-capitalistic wing of NSDAP, who published "''Das Programm der NSDAP und seine weltanschaulichen Grundlagen''" ("The programme of the NSDAP and its ideological foundations” 1927).
NSDAP Chairman of Economic Council (1931). With Hitler at the [[Beer Hall Putsch]].
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''12'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''14th'''<center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1983-094-01, Phillip Bouhler.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Phillip Bouhler]]:'''<ref>Peter Przybylski: ''Täter next to Hitler.'' 1990, S. 146.</ref><br>NSDAP Deputy Manager (1922). Reich Secretary (1925). NSDAP: ''[[Reichsleiter]]'' (National Leader), appointed by Hitler, (''second highest NSDAP political rank''), (1933).<ref>Dietrich Orlow: The History of the Nazi Party: 1933-1945 (University of Pittsburg Press), 1973, Pages 74. {{ISBN|0-822-93253-9}}.</ref> [[Hitler's Chancellery|Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP]]. Elected to [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] for [[Westphalia]], (1933). Joined [[SS]] as a [[Gruppenführer]], (1933). Promoted to SS- [[Obergruppenführer]], (1936). Police President of Munich, and Chief of [[Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers)|Adolf Hitler's Chancellery]],(1934-1945). Responsible for all correspondence for Hitler, and all his private and internal communications. Much of his functions were absorbed by the [[Party Chancellery]] (''Parteikanzlei'') under '''[[Martin Bormann]]''', (1944).<ref>Ailsby, Christopher (1997). ''SS: Roll of Infamy'', p. 19</ref> The SS official responsible for the ''[[Action T4|Aktion T4]]'' euthanasia program; (250,000+ disabled adults and children), also co-initiator (''with [[Heinrich Himmler]]'') of ''[[Action 14f13|Aktion 14f13]]'' euthanasia program; (15,000–20,000+ [[Nazi concentration camp|concentration camp]] prisoners).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''13'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''13th'''</center>
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| [[Otto May (journalist)| Otto May]]<ref>[[Rainer F. Schmidt| Rainer Friedrich Schmidt]]: ''Pioneer of Propaganda – The Kulmbacher Otto May and the foundation of Nazi propaganda.'' In: Ulrich Wirz, [[Franz Meußdoerffer (biochemist)| Franz Georg Meußdoerffer]] (eds.): ''Rund um die Plassenburg. Studies on the history of the city of Kulmbach and its castle'' (= ''The Plassenburg.'' Vol. 53). Friends of the Plassenburg, Kulmbach 2003, {{ISBN|3-925162-21-6}}, p. 390.</ref><br>''Pioneer of Propaganda – The Kulmbacher [[Otto May]] and the foundation of Nazi propaganda.'' NB: See Also: [[:de:Category:History of Kulmbach County]], RE; area of the Principality of [[Bayreuth]], previously ruled by [[Hohenzollern]]s. RE: Categories, History of [[Upper Franconia]]. History of [[Bavaria]]. RE: [[:de:Amtshauptmannschaft Kulmbach]].
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''14'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''12th'''</center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1989-011-13, Hans Frank.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Hans Frank]]:'''<ref>Joachim Lilla, Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: ''Statisten in Uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945. A biographical manual. With the involvement of the people and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924.'' Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, {{ISBN|3-7700-5254-4}}, p. 150.</ref><br>NSDAP's official Lawyer. [[Adolf Hitler]]'s personal legal adviser. Elected to [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]], (1930). Minister of Justice for [[Bavaria]], (1933). NSDAP ''[[Reichsleiter]]'', (second highest Nazi political rank, (1933). Governor-General of the occupied [[Polish]] territories, as Head of the [[General Government]] in [[Poland]], (1939-1945). Head of NSDAP Legal Affairs Department.<ref>Dietrich Orlow: The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A Complete History, Enigma Books, New York, 2010, p. 263. {{ISBN|978-1-929631-57-5}}.</ref>. Joined [[Hitler Cabinet]] as Reich [[Minister without portfolio]], (1934). Instituted a reign of terror against civilian population, the mass murder of Jews.<ref>{{cite web|title=Holocaust Encyclopedia: Hans Frank|website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007108|accessdate=18 April 2016}}</ref> the use of [[forced labour]], and oversaw four of the [[extermination camp]]s. Head of the General Government, (until 1945). With Hitler at the [[Beer Hall Putsch]].
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''15'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''11th'''<center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 119-5590, Christian Weber.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Christian Weber (SS general)|Christian Weber]]:'''<ref>Andreas Heusler: ''The Brown House. How Munich became the capital of the movement.'' 2008, s. 192.</ref><br>A Bar [[Bouncer (doorman)|bouncer]], one of the earliest political associates of [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref>Sherree Owens Zalampas, ''Adolf Hitler: A Psychological Interpretation of his Views on Architecture, Art, and Music'', Popular Press, 1990, p. 40</ref> With the Nazis who attacked a Bavarian League meeting, where Hitler hit the League's leader [[Otto Ballerstedt]], (1921).<ref>Wulf Schwarzwäller, ''The Unknown Hitler'', [[Berkley Books]], 1989, p. 75</ref> With Hitler at the [[Beer Hall putsch]]. Appointed [[Gauleiter]] and a City Councilman in [[Munich]], (''boss of the city''), (from 1933).<ref>James P. O'Donnell, ''The Bunker'', Da Capo Press, 2001, p. 180</ref> By his corruption, owned a number of hotels, villas, petrol stations, a brewery, city racecourse and bus service, also a home in the [[Munich Residenz]].<ref>[[Ian Kershaw]], ''Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich, Bavaria 1933–1945'', Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 149</ref> At the [[Night of the Long Knives]], was with the [[SS]] men who travelled to [[Bad Wiessee]] to purge the ([[SA]]) leadership, (1934).<ref>Heiden, ''The Fuehrer'', p. 593</ref> For reward, Hitler personally promoted him to SS-''[[Oberführer]]''.<ref>John Michael Steiner, ''Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany: A Process of Escalation into Mass Destruction'', Walter de Gruyter, 1976, p. 61</ref> On ''[[Kristallnacht]]'', led the [[SS]] to [[Planegg]], to ransack the estate of Jewish nobleman ''Baron Rudolf Hirsch'', before passing the estate into his own possession.<ref>Alan E. Steinweis, ''Kristallnacht 1938'', Harvard University Press, 2009, pp. 79–80</ref>
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|<center> NSDAP<br>''no'': '''16'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''10th'''</center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146II-849, Rudolf Heß.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Rudolf Hess]]:'''<ref>Kurt Pätzold: ''Rudolf Hess.'' 1999, s. 61.</ref><br>Hitlers Private Secretary and Personal Adjutant, (1925-1929). Joined Nazi Party, (1920). Member; [[Thule Society]], (''an [[antisemitic]] right-wing [[Völkisch movement|''Völkisch'']] group''), and ''[[Freikorps]]''. Joined Sturmabteilung (SA) organising and recruiting its early membership, (1922).<ref>Nesbit, Roy Conyers; van Acker, Georges (2011) [1999]. The Flight of Rudolf Hess: Myths and Reality. Stroud: History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-4757-2.</ref> At Hitler's side at [[Munich]] [[Beer Hall Putsch]]; (''"to seize control of Bavarian government"''). With Hitler in prison assisting him with [[Mein Kampf]], (1923). Private secretary to Hitler, (1925) Personal adjutant to Hitler, (1929).<ref>Hess, Wolf Rüdiger (1987) [1984]. My Father Rudolf Hess. London: W.H. Allen. ISBN 0-352-32214-4.</ref><ref>Bird, Eugene (1974). The Loneliest Man in the World. London: Martin Secker & Warburg. OCLC 1094312.</ref> Head of Party Liaison Staff. Chairman of Party Central Political Commission, (1932).<ref>Nesbit, Roy Conyers; van Acker, Georges (2011) [1999]. The Flight of Rudolf Hess: Myths and Reality. Stroud: History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-4757-2.</ref><ref>Williams, Max (2015). SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard, Vol. 1 (A-J). Fonthill Media LLC. ISBN 978-1-78155-433-3.</ref> [[Reichsleiter]]''<ref>Williams, Max (2015). SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard, Vol. 1 (A-J). Fonthill Media LLC. ISBN 978-1-78155-433-3.)</ref>. [[Obergruppenführer]]'' in ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (SS), (1933). Deputy Führer, (1933-1941). Reichsminister without portfolio, (''responsible for foreign affairs, finance, health, education and law'', from the [[Brown House, Munich|NSDAP HQ; Brown House, Munich]] and from [[Berlin]]). (1933-1941). Signed government legislation of the [[Nuremberg Laws]], into law, (''stripping German Jews of rights, pre-Holocaust''), (1935). Cabinet Council, (1938). Council of Ministers for Defence of the Reich, (1939). Hitler decreed [[Hermann Göring]] as his official successor, and Hess as next in line. (outbreak of war, 1939).<ref> Williams, Max (2015). SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard, Vol. 1 (A-J). Fonthill Media LLC. ISBN 978-1-78155-433-3.</ref> Wrote / co-signed Hitler's decrees. Organised [[Nuremberg Rally|Nuremberg Rallies]], (''giving opening speech and introducing Hitler''). Flew to Scotland and was imprisoned, (1941-1987).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''17'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''9th'''</center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1997-011-24, Julius Streicher.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Julius Streicher]]:'''<ref>Institute for Contemporary History: ''Mecklenburg in World War II. The meetings of the Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the Nazi governing bodies of the Gaues Mecklenburg 1939-1945. An edition of the session minutes.'' 2009, s. 1074.</ref><br>Gauleiter of Nordbayern, (1925-1928). Gauleiter of Nuremberg-Fürth, (1928-1929). Gauleiter of [[Gau Franconia]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]], (1929-1940). Member of the [[antisemitic]] (German Nationalist Protection and Defence Federation), (1919). Founded the ''Deutschsozialistische Partei'' (German Socialist Party, [[DSP]]), branch in [[Nuremberg]], (with branches in [[Düsseldorf]], [[Kiel]], [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Dresden]] and [[Munich]]), (1919). Left [[DSP]] to join Nazi Party, (''bringing enough DSP members to almost double the Nazi Party overnight''), (1921). Founder of [[Der Stürmer]] (to promulgate antisemitic propaganda), (1923). Elected to Bavarian "Landtag", (1924). [[Nuremberg]] City Council, (1925). Gauleiter of [[Nordbayern]]; in Bavarian regions of Upper, Middle and Lower [[Franconia]], (''his home town of Nuremberg, as its capital''), (1925). [[SA]] then SA-Obergruppenführer, (1937). Ordered the destruction of the [[Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg]] on [[Kristallnacht]], (1938). Accused of keeping Jewish property seized after Kristallnacht, and charged with spreading stories about Göring; alleging his daughter Edda was conceived by [[artificial insemination]], (1938). Stripped of party offices, except as Gauleiter, and as [[Der Stürmer]] publisher, (''but forbidden to be read by staff of Göring''), (1940).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''18'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''8th'''</center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1985-0723-500, Alfred Rosenberg headcrop.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Alfred Rosenberg]]:'''<ref>Institute for Contemporary History: ''Mecklenburg in World War II. The meetings of the Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the Nazi governing bodies of the Gaues Mecklenburg 1939-1945. An edition of the session minutes.'' 2009, s. 1060.</ref><br>NSDAP, earliest known member, (eight months before Hitler), (1919). After Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler named him NSDAP Leader until his release, (1923). [[NSDAP Office of Foreign Affairs|Leader of NSDAP Foreign Policy Office]], (1933-1945). [[Reichsleiter]], (1933-1945). [[Amt Rosenberg|NSDAP Commissar for the Supervision of Intellectual and Ideological Education]] (aka [[Rosenberg office]], (1933-1945). [[Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories|Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories]], (1941-1945). Nazi Party's chief racial theorist. Author of Nazi ideology; (inc; its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, [[Lebensraum]], abrogation of the [[Treaty of Versailles]].) “[[The Myth of the Twentieth Century]].” (1930). At the [[Volta Conference]] in [[Rome]]. In Nazi uniform, laid a wreath bearing a [[swastika]] at the [[Cenotaph]] in [[London]], (1933). Head of the ''[[Hohe Schule der NSDAP|NSDAP Hohe Schule]]''; Centre of National Socialist Ideological and Educational Research, from which the [[Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce|Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (ERR)]], [[Nazi plunder|looted art and cultural goods]], (active in Paris looting art from Jewish families such as [[Rothschilds]] and [[Paul Rosenberg (art dealer)|Rosenbergs]]). [[Hermann Göring| Göring]] used the [[ERR]] to collect art for his own private collection, (1940).<ref>Löhr, Hanns Christian (2018): '' Kunst als Waffe – Der Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Ideologie und Kunstraub im „Dritten Reich“'', Gebr. Mann, p. 38 ff. {{ISBN|978-3-7861-2806-9}}</ref>
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''19'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''7th'''</center>
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| NSDAP Member number 7, Ranked at 19th is (''Not named to date''). .<br>NSDAP Member number 19, Ranked at 7th is (''Not named to date'').
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''20'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''6th'''</center>
| <center>[https://www.hdbg.de/parlament/content/persDetail.php?id=960]</center>
| [[Wilhelm Holzwarth]]:<ref>Robert Probst: ''The NSDAP in the Bavarian Landtag 1924-1933.'' 1998, p. 61.</ref><br>Member of Bavarian Parliament, (1924-1928). Member of [[Thule Society]].<ref>Probst, ''NSDAP'', p. 37 with reference to: Rudolf von Sebottendorf: ''Before Hitler came. Documentary from the early days of the [[National Socialist]] movement.'' Deukula, Munich 1933, p. 221ff.</ref> Joined NSDAP, (1920). Group Leader; Founded [[Scheinfeld]] NSDAP, a stronghold of the party, and oldest local group in [[Franconia]], (1921).<ref>Robert Probst: ''The NSDAP in the Bavarian Landtag 1924-1933.'' (= ''Munich Studies on Recent and Latest History'', Volume 19) Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-32213-5, p. 61.</ref> Visited Hitler in Landsberg prison, (1924). Had a secret weapons depot before the Hitler coup, which led to [[Franconia]]n Nazis acquiring a considerable amount of weapons, (1925).<ref>Hambrecht, ''Ascent'', p. 51 f.</ref> Elected for the ''Völkische Block'' ([[DVB]]), in the [[Bavaria]]n state election, (1924). Joined new Bavarian [[Landtag]] NSDAP faction, at the re-founding of NSDAP, (1925). Lost his mandate in the May state election, then complained to the Reich leadership and NSDAP Landtag leader; [[Rudolf Buttmann|Buttmann]]. (''his loss of office due to a dispute between him and Streicher''), (1924-1928). Transferred from the Nazi Group to the [[Landbund]], joined the ''Tannenbergbundunder'', under [[Erich Ludendorff]], (1928). Founder of the ''Uffenheimer Tageblatt'', (1928), as editor, attacked and disclosed revelations about the Nazi Group, and homosexuality of [[Ernst Röhm]] and [[Edmund Heines]], (1928-1932), (''until its press and printing house were blown up''). Due to threatening Nazi letters beforehand, it was likely by the ([[Bavaria]]n) ''Uffenheimer'' [[SA]].<ref>Hambrecht, ''Ascension'', p. 224; [http://library.fes.de/spdpdalt/19321026.pdf ''Social Democratic Press Service''] of 26 October 1932 at the [[Friedrich Ebert Foundation]] (pdf, 3.7 MB).</ref> (1932). Denounced by NSDAP Supreme Party Court, (1937). He left Bavaria and moved to [[Windecken]] near [[Hanau]], he died in [[Frankfurt am Main]]. (1941).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''21'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''5th'''</center>
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| (''Not named to date'').
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''22'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''4th'''</center>
| [[File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1968-101-20A,_Joseph_Goebbels.jpg|center|70px]]
| '''[[Joseph Goebbels]]:'''<ref>Institute of Contemporary History: ''Mecklenburg in World War II). The meetings of the Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt with the Nazi governing bodies of the Gaues Mecklenburg 1939-1945. An edition of the session minutes.'' 2009, s. 1017.</ref><br><br>'''''Gauleiter of Berlin''''', (1926-1945). [[Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda|Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda]], (1933-1945). [[Reichsleiter]], (1933-1945). ''Stadtpräsident'' ([[Mayor]]) of [[Berlin]], (1943-1945). [[Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War]], (1944-1945). [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor of the German Reich]], (2 days, 1945).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''23'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''3rd'''</center>
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| '''[[Hermann Göring]]:'''<ref>Werner Maser: ''Hermann Göring. Hitler's Janus-headed Paladin - The Political Biography''. Edition q, Berlin 2000, S. 74 f.</ref><br><br>[[List of Presidents of the Reichstag (Germany)|President of the Reichstag (16th)]], (1932-1945). [[Minister President of Prussia]], (1933-1945). [[Reichsstatthalter]] of [[Prussia]], (1933-1945). [[Oberkommando der Luftwaffe|Supreme Commander of Luftwaffe]], (1935-1945).
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| <center>NSDAP<br>''no'': '''24'''<br><br>''ranked''<br>'''2nd'''</center>
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| '''[[Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia]]:'''<ref>Walter Hofer: ''The Reichstag fire.'' 1992, s. 521.</ref> ''[[House of Hohenzollern]], ruling House of Germany'', (1871-1918)<br><br>Honourable; representative of (''[[Abdication of Wilhelm II|the abdicated]]''); [[Wilhelm II, German Emperor]], and [[Kingdom of Prussia|King of Prussia]]. Representative; second in command to supreme leader of Germany, (1914-1918). Representative; joint [[CIC]] to supreme commander of their [[General Staff]], [[German Army|Armies]], [[German Navy|Navy]], [[Airforce]], (1914-1918). Member of [[Reichstag]]s of [[Weimar Republic]] and [[Nazi Germany]].
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