List of Members of the Prussian State Council of Nazi Germany

The List of Members of the Prussian State Council of Nazi Germany enumerates the persons who served on the advisory body to the Prussian minister president, which existed from July 1933 to May 1945. The State Council by law consisted of (1) members by virtue of office (ex officio members) and (2) members who were appointed by the Prussian minister president. The ex officio members were the minister president and the Prussian cabinet ministers. Of the fifty appointed members, some were to be drawn specifically from the state secretaries of the ministries and certain other Nazi Party or government office holders, among whom were the Stabschef of the SA, the Reichsführer-SS, certain other high ranking SA and SS officers and the Gauleiter of the Prussian Gaue. The remaining appointed members were to include representatives of churches, business, labor, science, art and other "men of merit". Of the 125 known members of the State Council, some 31 died in office, 18 were dismissed, 12 resigned or retired and 64 remained in office at the fall of the Nazi regime.

List of ex officio members

NameTerm in officeQualifying office when appointedComments Hermann Göring 1933–1945 Prussian Minister presidentDismissed from all offices in April 1945. Walter Darré 1933–1945 Prussian Minister of Agriculture, Land and Forests Julius Dorpmüller 1937–1945 Prussian Minister of Transport Wilhelm Frick 1934–1945 Prussian Minister of the Interior Walther Funk 1938–1945 Prussian Minister of Economics Franz Gürtner 1934–1935 Prussian Minister of JusticeResigned when Prussian Ministry merged with Reich Justice Ministry in April 1935. Hanns Kerrl 1933–1941 Prussian Minister of JusticeResigned as Minister in July 1934, but remained an appointed member and died in office in December 1941. Johannes Popitz 1933–1944 Prussian Minister of FinanceDismissed and arrested in connection with the 20 July plot in July 1944. Bernhard Rust 1933–1945 Prussian Minister of Science, Education and Popular CultureDied in office (suicide) in May 1945. Kurt Schmitt 1933–1945 Prussian Minister of Economics and Labor Resigned as Minister in January 1935, but remained an appointed member until 1945. Franz Seldte 1935–1945 Prussian Minister of Labor

List of appointed members NameTerm in officeOffice or rank when appointedComments Friedrich Alpers 1937–1944 State Secretary, Reich and Prussian State Forestry OfficeDied in office (suicide) in September 1944. August Wilhelm of Prussia 1933–1945 SA-Gruppenführer Herbert Backe 1935–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Food and Agriculture Wilhelm Berning 1933–1945 Bishop of Osnabrück Wilhelm Börger 1933–1945 Trustee of Labour for the Rhine Province Ernst Brandes 1933–1935 Estate owner in East PrussiaDied in office in April 1935. Rudolf Brinkmann 1938–1939 State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of EconomicsResigned and hospitalized for mental illness in May 1939. Helmuth Brückner 1933–1934 Gauleiter of SilesiaDismissed from all offices in connection with the Röhm purge in December 1934. Bruno Claußen 1933–1934 State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Economics and LaborRetired in May 1934. Leonardo Conti 1934–1945 Health Commissioner, Prussian Interior Ministry Kurt Daluege 1933–1945 SS-Gruppenführer Georg von Detten 1933–1934 SA-GruppenführerDied in office (murdered in the Röhm purge) in July 1934. Sepp Dietrich 1933–1945 SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Dohna-Finckenstein 1933–1942 Estate owner in West PrussiaDied in office in December 1942. Otto-Heinrich Drechsler 1937–1945 Oberbürgermeister of LübeckDied in office (suicide) in May 1945. Joachim Albrecht Eggeling 1937–1945 Gauleiter of Halle-MerseburgDied in office (suicide) in April 1945. Karl Ernst 1933–1934 SA-GruppenführerDied in office (murdered in the Röhm purge) in June 1934. Friedrich Karl Florian 1933–1945 Gauleiter of Düsseldorf Albert Forster 1933–1945 Gauleiter of Danzig Roland Freisler 1933–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Justice MinistryDied in office (in an air raid) in February 1945. Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven 1933–1942 Professor of Law, University of BreslauDied in office in October 1942. Wilhelm Furtwängler 1933–1945 Principal Conductor, Berlin Philharmonic Paul Giesler 1941–1943 Gauleiter of Southern WestphaliaResigned in June 1943. Artur Görlitzer 1933–1945 Deputy Gauleiter of BerlinDied in office (suicide) in April 1945. Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz 1933–1945 Trustee of Labour, Province of Pomerania Ludwig Grauert 1933–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Interior Ministry Arthur Greiser 1939–1945 Gauleiter of Posen Erich Gritzbach 1938–1945 Chief of the Staff Office, Prussian State Ministry Josef Grohé 1933–1945 Gauleiter of Cologne-Aachen Gustaf Gründgens 1936–1945 Generalintendant, Prussian State Theater Carl von Halfern 1933–1937 Oberpräsident, province of PomeraniaDied in office in October 1937. Edmund Heines 1933–1934 SA-ObergruppenführerDied in office (murdered in the Röhm purge) in June 1934. Kurt Herrmann 1938–1945 Publisher and industrialist Reinhard Heydrich 1934–1942 Chief of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD)Died in office (assassinated) in June 1942. Heinrich Himmler 1933–1945 Reichsführer-SSDismissed from all offices in April 1945. Hans Hinkel 1939–1945 Department Head, Reich Ministry of Propaganda Albert Hoffmann 1943–1945 Gauleiter of Southern Westphalia Dietrich von Jagow 1934–1945 SA-ObergruppenführerDied in office (suicide) in April 1945. Karl Jarres 1933–1945 Industrialist and business executive Hanns Johst 1934–1945 First Chairman, German Academy for Poetry Rudolf Jordan 1933–1945 Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg Wilhelm Karpenstein 1933–1934 Gauleiter of PomeraniaDismissed from all offices in connection with the Röhm purge in July 1934. Walter von Keudell 1935–1937 GeneralforstmeisterDismissed in November 1937. Wilhelm Kleinmann 1937–1942 State Secretary, Prussian Transportation MinistryDismissed in May 1942. Erich Koch 1933–1945 Gauleiter of East Prussia Gustav Koenigs 1935–1940 State Secretary, Prussian Transportation MinistryResigned in February 1940. Walter Köhler 1937–1945 Department Head, Four Year Plan Paul Körner 1933–1945 State Secretary, Prussian State Ministry Friedrich Krebs 1933–1945 Oberbürgermeister of Frankfurt Johannes Krohn 1935–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Labor Ministry Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger 1933–1945 SAü-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Kube 1933–1936 Gauleiter of KurmarkDismissed from all offices in August 1936. Wilhelm Kutscher 1933–1945 Retired Oberpräsident, Province of East Prussia Friedrich Landfried 1933–1943 State Secretary, Prussian Finance MinistryRetired in November 1943. Hartmann Lauterbacher 1941–1945 Gauleiter of Southern Hanover-Brunswick Magnus von Levetzow 1935–1939 Retired KonteradmiralDied in office in March 1939. Robert Ley 1933–1945 Chief of Staff, Nazi Party Political Organization Julius Lippert 1937–1940 Oberbürgermeister and Stadtspräsident of BerlinDismissed in July 1940. Karl Litzmann 1933–1936 Retired General der InfanterieDied in office in May 1936. Karl-Siegmund Litzmann 1933–1945 SA-Obergruppenführer Hinrich Lohse 1933–1945 Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein Ferdinand von Lüninck 1933–1944 Oberpräsident, Province of WestphaliaDismissed and arrested in connection with the 20 July plot in July 1944. Hermann von Lüninck 1933–1937 Oberpräsident, Rhine ProvinceDismissed in June 1937. Viktor Lutze 1933–1943 SA-ObergruppenführerDied in office (in an automobile accident) in May 1943. Max Luyken 1933–1935 SA-GruppenführerResigned in September 1935. August von Mackensen 1933–1945 Retired Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Meinberg 1933–1945 President, Agricultural League Kurt Melcher 1933–1945 Oberpräsident, Province of Saxony Elhard von Morozowicz 1933–1934 SA-GruppenführerDied in office (in an automobile accident) in January 1934. Hermann Muhs 1937–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Ministry for Church Affairs Ludwig Müller 1933–1945 Erich Neumann 1933–1942 Ministerial Director, Prussian State MinistryResigned in August 1942. Werner PeinerWerner Peine, Maler der Nationalsozialismus (1897-1984) in Portal Rhenische Geschichte 1940–1945 Professor, Hermann Göring Master School for Painting Hans Pfundtner 1934–1943 State Secretary, Prussian Interior MinistryRetired in August 1943. Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse 1933–1943 Oberpräsident, Province of Hesse-NassauDismissed and arrested for complicity in Mussolini's overthrow in September 1943. Paul Pleiger 1943–1945 Board Chairman, Reichswerke Hermann Göring Hans Ernst Posse 1935–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Economics Friedrich Reinhart 1933–1943 President, Berlin Chamber of Industry and TradeDied in office in October 1943. Ernst Röhm 1933–1934 SA-StabschefDied in office (murdered in the Röhm purge) in July 1934. Heinrich Sahm 1935 Oberbürgermeister of BerlinResigned in December 1935. Ferdinand Sauerbruch 1935–1945 Professor of Medicine, Charité Berlin University of Medicine Hjalmar Schacht 1937–1943 President, ReichsbankDismissed from all offices in January 1943. Anton Schifferer 1933–1943 Estate owner in Schleswig-HolsteinDied in office in July 1943. Rudolf Schmeer 1935–1945 Deputy Leader, German Labor Front Carl Schmitt 1933–1945 Professor of Law, Cologne University Walter Schuhmann 1933–1945 Reich Chairman, National Socialist Factory Cell Organization Franz Schwede 1934–1945 Gauleiter of Pomerania Siegfried Seidel-Dittmarsch 1933–1934 SS-GruppenführerDied in office in February 1934. Gustav Simon 1933–1945 Gauleiter of Koblenz-Trier Alois Spaniol 1933–1935 Landesführer, SaargebietDismissed in March 1935. Albert Speer 1938–1945 General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital Albert Stange 1933–1935 State Economic Commissioner, Regierungsbezirk ErfurtDismissed in October 1935. Peter Stangier 1933–1945 Deputy Gauleiter of Northern Westphalia Emil Georg von Stauss 1933–1942 General Director, Deutsche BankDied in office in December 1942. Wilhelm Stuckart 1933–19341938–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Science, Education and Popular CultureState Secretary, Prussian Interior Ministry Emil Stürtz 1936–1945 Gauleiter of Kurmark Friedrich Syrup 1939–1942 State Secretary, Prussian Labor MinistryDismissed in March 1942 Otto Telschow 1933–1945 Gauleiter of Eastern Hanover Josef Terboven 1933–1945 Gauleiter of EssenDied in office (suicide) in May 1945. Fritz Thyssen 1933–1938 Board Chairman, United SteelworksResigned in November 1938. Heinz Tietjen 1935–1945 Generalintendant, Prussian State Theater Adolf von Trotha 1933–1940 Retired VizeadmiralDied in office in October 1940. Hans von Tschammer und Osten 1936–1943 Reich Sports LeaderDied in office in March 1943. Harald Turner 1938–1945 Ministerial Director, Prussian Finance Ministry Curt von Ulrich 1933–1944 SA-ObergruppenführerRetired in July 1944. Gustav Wagemann 1933 Ministerial Councilor, Prussian Justice Ministry.Died in office (in an airplane accident) in December 1933. Josef Wagner 1933–1941 Gauleiter of Southern WestphaliaDismissed from all offices in November 1941. Karl Weinrich 1933–1943 Gauleiter of KurhessenDismissed from all offices in November 1943. Fritz Weitzel 1933–1940 SS-GruppenführerDied in office (in an air raid) in June 1940. Theodor Wiegand 1933–1936 President, German Archaeological InstituteDied in office in December 1936. Werner Willikens 1933–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Forests Helmuth Wohlthat 1938–1945 Ministerial Director, Prussian Economics Ministry Udo von Woyrsch 1933–1945 SS-Gruppenführer Werner Zschintzsch 1936–1945 State Secretary, Prussian Ministry of Science, Education and Popular Culture

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External links Photos of the Prussian State Council at the New Palace, Potsdam