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Second Reich to Third Reich Political Figures
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- 1Wilhelm 2(1859-1941)
1888-1918 - the last German emperor (Kaiser) - 2Hindenburg(1847-1934)
Junker general; 1914 - commander of Germany's forces on the Eastern Front; 1916 - supreme commander of Germany's army;
1925-1934 - Germany's president - 3Ludendorff-1916 - Hindenburg's second-in-command;1916-1918 - along with Hindenburg established virtual military dictatorship in Germany
- 4Friedrich Ebert(1871-1925)
leading moderate Social Democrat;1918-1919 - dominant figure in the six-man socialist government; 1919 - became the first German president; capable and well-intended but uncharismatic - 5Hugenberg(1865-1951)
1928 - leader of the Nationalsit Party; 1929 - led the right wing campaign against the Young Plan;1933 - Minister of Economics and Agriculture - 6Gustav Stresemann(1878-1920)
moderate conservative; 1914-1918 - moved to the right; German People's Party (DVP); 1919 - voted against the Constitution; initially monarchist, later makes peace with the Republic; pragmatist; 1926 - awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize - 7Ernst Thalmann(1886-1944)
1920s - leader of the Comunists; turned KPD into Stalinist party; 1922 - survived assassination attempt by the Organisation Consul; 1933 - imprisoned by the Nazis; 1944 - murdered by the Nazis - 8Gregor Strasser(1892-1934)
1920s - NSDAP's most important leader after Hitler; highly educated, served as an officer in the trenche sin the war, successful businessman; "German Socialism" - anti-capitalist programme; Hitler was jealous of him - 9Josef Goebbles(1897-1945)
master propagandist of Nazism; disciple of Gregor Strasser -> after the Bamberg Conference (1926) - one of Hitler's most devoted followers; 1926 - Gauleiter of Berlin; 1933 - Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment; one of the most poisonous Nazi leaders - 10Kurt von Schleicher(1882-1934)
army general; the army's political spokesman; shrewd and imaginative; over-ambitious, manipulative, untrustworthy; December 1932 - appointed Chancellor - 11Heinrich Bruning(1885-1970)
trained economist; conservative right winger of the Centre Party; 1924-1933 - Reichstag member; 1930 - appointed Chancellor (chairman of the Centre PArty's representative group in the Reichstag); after Hitler came to power, left Germany -> USA; became university professor - 12Franz von Papen(1979-1969)
WWI - junoir army officer; expelled from USA for spying; 1921-1932 - member of the Prussian state parliament; June 1932-Dec 1932 - Chancellor - 13Ernst Rohm(1887-1934)
army officer; 1919 - fighter in one of the Free Corps; 1920 - joined the Nazis; 1923 - took part in the Munich Putsch; mercenary in South Africa; 1931 - head of SA; under his leadership, SA quickly grew in size; wild, undisciplined - 14Gertrud Schlotz-Klink(1902-1999)
the highest-ranking female political figure in Hitler's Germany; 1934 - leader of all National Socialist women; had little real power - 15Baldur con Schirach(1907-1974)
- son of upper-class Germany father and wealthy American mother
- Reich Youth Leader
-1941 - removed from the post
-1941-1945 - Gauleiter of Vienna - 16Hjalmar Schacht(1877-1970)
Germany's inter-war financial wizard; 1923 - played key role in establishing Germany's currency; became Reich currency commissioner; president of Germany's national bank until 1930; 1933 - appointed chief of Germany's national bank by the Nazis; 1934 - 'New Plan'; 1934-1937 - Minister of Economics; never joined the Nazi party; 1944 - arrested and sent to a concentration camp on suspicion of involvement in a plot to kill Hitler - 17Herman Goering(1893-1946)
Hitler's second-in-command; fighter pilot in the 1914-1918 war; one of the more popular Nazi leaders; corrupt and vain; 1935 - Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (Germany's air force); responsible for implementing the Four-Year Plan - 18Claus von Stauffenberg(1907-1944)
career soldier, saw wartime service in France, Russia and North Africa; received several awards for bravery; seriously wounded; military planner; after 1941 - sickened by the Nazis and their treatment of Jews and other civilians in Russia - 19Albert Speer(1905-1981)
1931 - joined the Nazi party; 1930s - Hitler's personal architect; member of Hitler's inner circle; worked on plans to rebuild Berlin ('Germania');1942 - Armaments Minister
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