Goebbels cabinet

The Goebbels cabinet was named by Adolf Hitler in his political testament of 30 April 1945.^[1][2] The cabinet was therefore not legitimised according to the Weimar Constitution, which was still formally in force. 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]

Cabinet of Joseph Goebbels
2nd Cabinet of Nazi Germany
30 April 1945 – 1 May 1945
Date formed	30 April 1945 (1945-04-30)
Date dissolved	1 May 1945 (1945-05-01)
People and organisations
Head of state	Karl Dönitz
Head of government	Joseph Goebbels
Member party	Nazi Party
Status in legislature	Sole legal party
History
Predecessor	Hitler cabinet
Successor	Flensburg Government

Composition

Portfolio	Minister	Took office	Left office	Party
Reichspräsident	Karl Dönitz	30 April 1945	23 May 1945		NSDAP
Chancellor	Joseph Goebbels	30 April 1945	1 May 1945 (died)		NSDAP
Party Minister	Martin Bormann	30 April 1945	2 May 1945 (died)		NSDAP
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Arthur Seyss-Inquart	30 April 1945	2 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister of the Interior	Paul Giesler	30 April 1945	3 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister of War	Karl Dönitz	30 April 1945	23 May 1945		NSDAP
Supreme Commander of the Army	Ferdinand Schörner	30 April 1945	8 May 1945		NSDAP
Supreme Commander of the Navy	Karl Dönitz	30 January 1943	1 May 1945		NSDAP
Supreme Commander of the Air Force	Robert Ritter von Greim	26 April 1945	8 May 1945		NSDAP
Head of the SS and German Police	Karl Hanke	29 April 1945	8 May 1945		NSDAP
Reich Minister of Economics	Walther Funk	5 February 1938	5 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister for Food and Agriculture	Herbert Backe	23 May 1942	23 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister of Justice	Otto Georg Thierack	20 August 1942	5 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister of Culture	Gustav Adolf Scheel	30 April 1945	3 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister of Propaganda	Werner Naumann	30 April 1945	5 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister of Finance	Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk	1 June 1932	23 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister of Labour	Theo Hupfauer	30 April 1945	5 May 1945		NSDAP
Minister of Armament	Karl Saur	30 April 1945	5 May 1945		NSDAP
Leader of the Deutscher Arbeitsfront	Robert Ley	10 May 1933	8 May 1945		NSDAP

Retaining some members from the previous Hitler cabinet, some members of the Goebbels cabinet would continue in the Dönitz cabinet.^[4]