Lists of political office-holders in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
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These are lists of political office-holders in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which from 15 March 1939[1] until 9 May 1945[2] comprised the Nazi-occupied parts of Czechoslovakia.


The lists include both the representatives of the Nazi-recognized Czech authorities as well as the German Reichsprotektoren ("Reich protectors") and the Staatsminister ("State Minister"), who held the real executive power in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Government of the Protectorate
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Note: State President (Státní prezident / Staatspräsident) Emil Hácha and Prime Minister (Předseda vlády / Premierminister) Rudolf Beran held the office prior the German occupation, during the Second Czechoslovak Republic, and were officially confirmed in those positions (with very limited sovereignty and power) by German authorities within few days after the occupation.
State President of Bohemia and Moravia
No. | Portrait | State President | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Election |
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1 | Emil Hácha (1872–1945) | 16 March 1939 | 9 May 1945[a] | 6 years, 54 days | NS | –[b] |
Prime Ministers of Bohemia and Moravia
No. | Portrait | Prime Minister | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Cabinet |
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– | Rudolf Beran (1887–1954) Acting | 16 March 1939 | 27 April 1939 | 42 days | NS | Beran II | |
1 | Alois Eliáš (1890–1942) | 27 April 1939 | 27 September 1941[c] | 2 years, 153 days | NS | Eliáš | |
2 | Jaroslav Krejčí (1892–1956) | 28 September 1941 Acting until 19 January 1942 | 19 January 1945 | 3 years, 113 days | NS | Eliáš Krejčí | |
3 | Richard Bienert (1881–1949) | 19 January 1945 | 5 May 1945[d] | 106 days | NS | Bienert |
German representatives
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Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht in Bohemia and Moravia
No. | Portrait | Supreme Commander | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Defence branch |
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1 | General der Infanterie Johannes Blaskowitz (1883–1948) | 15 March 1939 | 18 March 1939 | 3 days | ![]() |
Reich Protectors of Bohemia and Moravia
No. | Portrait | Reich Protector | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Ref. |
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1 | Konstantin von Neurath (1873–1956) [e] | 21 March 1939 | 24 August 1943 | 4 years, 156 days | NSDAP | [4][5] | |
– | Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942) Acting | SS-29 September 1941 | 4 June 1942[f] † | 248 days | NSDAP | [6][7] | |
– | SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Kurt Daluege (1897–1946) Acting | 5 June 1942 | 24 August 1943 | 1 year, 80 days | NSDAP | [8][9] | |
2 | Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946) | 24 August 1943 | 8 May 1945[g] | 1 year, 257 days | NSDAP | – |
State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia
On 20 August 1943, at the eve of Wilhelm Frick's appointment, the State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia was created within the Hitler cabinet, which assumed many powers of the Prime Minister and of the Reich Protector. SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank, Higher SS and Police Leader (Höherer SS-und Polizeiführer, HSSPF, HSS-PF, HSSuPF) in Bohemia and Moravia and the former Secretary of State in the Office of Reich Protector since 1939, was the only State Minister (with the title Staatsminister im Range eines Reichsministers) for Bohemia and Moravia, reducing the formerly important position of Reich Protector to a ceremonial role.[10]
No. | Portrait | State Minister | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Cabinet | Ref. |
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1 | Obergruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank (1898–1946) | SS-20 August 1943 | 8 May 1945[g] | 1 year, 261 days | NSDAP | Hitler | [11][12] |
Timeline

Governmental standards
- Service flag of the Reich Protector
(1939–1944) - Service flag of the Reich Protector
(1944–1945) - Service flag of the State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia
(1944–1945) - Service flag of the Representative of the Wehrmacht in Bohemia and Moravia (1939–1945)
- Standard of the State President
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Notes
- Previously elected as Czechoslovak president in 1938.
- Arrested because of his participation in the anti-Nazi resistance.[3]
- Arrested by the Czech resistance at the start of the Prague uprising.
- Raised to the honorary rank of an SS-Obergruppenführer on 21 June 1943.
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