Reich Cultural Senate

The Reich Cultural Senate was a body directly subordinate to the Nazi Reich Chamber of Culture, created by Chamber President and Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on 15 November 1935.[1][2][3]

Members of the Reich Cultural Senate at the time of its founding

Reich Cultural Managers

  • Walther Funk (1890–1960), Vice President of the Reich Chamber of Culture, State President
  • Hans Schmidt-Leonhardt [de] (1886–1945), managing director of the Reich Chamber of Culture, ministerial councillor
  • Franz Moraller [de] (1903–1986), managing director of the Reich Chamber of Culture, SA senior leader
  • Hans Hinkel (1901–1960), managing director of the Reich Chamber of Culture, member of the Reichstag

Members of the Reich Chamber of Literature

  • Hanns Johst (1890–1978)
  • Heinz Wismann (ministerial official) [de] (1897–1947)
  • Richard Suchenwirth [de] (1896–1965)
  • Hans Friedrich Blunck (1888–1961)
  • Karl Baur (publisher) [de] (1898–1984)
  • Wilhelm Baur (publisher) [de] (1905–1945)
  • Theodor Fritsch (bookseller) [de] (1895–1946)
  • Karl Heinz Hederich [de] (1902–1976)
  • Carl Vincent Krogmann (1889–1978), Hamburg
  • Gerhard Schumann [de] (1911–1995)
  • Martin Wülfing [de] (1899–1986)
  • Heinrich Anacker (1901–1971)
  • Edwin Erich Dwinger [de] (1898–1981)
  • Richard Euringer (1891–1953)
  • Eberhard Wolfgang Möller (1906–1972)
  • Hermann Stehr (1864–1940)

Members of the Reich Chamber of Music

  • Peter Raabe (1872–1945)
  • Paul Graener (1872–1944), who was also appointed Vice President of the Reich Music Chamber
  • Heinz Ihlert [de] (1893–1945)
  • Franz Adam (conductor) [de] (1885–1954) from the staff of Adolf Hitler's deputy
  • Fritz Kaiser
  • Friedrich Krebs (1894–1961), Frankfurt am Main
  • Hermann Müller-John [de] (1894–1945), music master of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
  • Horst Sander [de] (1904–1945), head of the German Musical Association
  • Hermann Stange (music director) [de] (1884–1953)
  • Fritz Stein (1879–1961), director of the State University of Music (Berlin)
  • Wilhelm Backhaus (1884–1969)
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954)
  • Clemens Krauss (1893–1954)
  • Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
  • Heinrich Schlusnus (1888–1952)
  • Georg Schumann (1866–1952)

Members of the Reich Press Chamber

  • Max Amann (1891–1957), president, Reichsleiter and director of the Central Party Publishing House
  • Otto Dietrich (1897–1952), Vice President, Reich Press Chief of the NSDAP
  • Ildephons Richter [de] (born 1892)
  • Gunter d'Alquen (1910–1998)
  • Hans Schwarz van Berk [de] (1902–1973)
  • Alfred Ingemar Berndt (1905–1945)
  • Willi Bischoff [de] (born 1886)
  • Edgar Brinkmann (publisher) [de] (born 1896)
  • Adolf Dresler [de] (1898–1971)
  • Walther Heide [de] (1894–1945)
  • Hans Hornauer [de] (born 1902)
  • Rolf Rienhardt [de] (1903–1975)
  • Wilhelm Weiß (1892–1950)
  • Josef Berchtold (1897–1962)
  • Heinrich Fetkötter [de] (born 1902)
  • Richard Jügler [de] (born 1889)

Members from the Reich Theater Chamber

Members of the Reich Broadcasting Chamber

  • Horst Dreßler-Andreß [de] (1899–1979)
  • Eugen Hadamovsky (1904–1945)
  • Herbert Packebusch [de] (1902–1944)
  • Kurt von Boeckmann [de] (1885–1950)
  • Herbert Dominik [de] (born 1902)
  • Heinz Franke
  • Julius Christoph Günther
  • Hans Kriegler [de] (1905–1978)
  • Heinz Lotz (industrialist) [de] (1894–1937)
  • Alfred Lau [de] (1898–1971)
  • Goetz Otto Stoffregen [de] (1896–1953)
  • Abraham Esau (1884–1955)
  • Heinrich Glasmeier [de] (born 1892)
  • Paul Goerz [de] (1896–1952)
  • Hugo Fischer (politician) [de] (1902–1979)

Members of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts

  • Eugen Hönig (1873–1945)
  • Adolf Ziegler (1892–1959)
  • Walter Hoffmann [de] (life dates unknown, missing since 1945)
  • Erich Dammeier [de]
  • Willy Kelter [de]
  • Otto von Keudell [de] (1887–1972)
  • Hans Sauermann [de] (1885–1960)
  • Albert Speer (1905–1981)
  • Kurt Schmid-Ehmen [de] (1901–1968)
  • Ernst Schulte Strathaus [de] (1881–1968)
  • Hans Schweitzer (1901–1980)
  • Ernst Zörner [de] (1895–1945), mayor of Dresden
  • Paul Baumgarten (architect, born 1873) [de] (1873–1946)
  • German Bestelmeyer (1874–1942), President of the Munich Academy
  • Oswald Bieber (1874–1955)
  • Leonhard Gall (1884–1952)
  • Richard Klein (1890–1967)

Members of the Reich Film Chamber

  • Oswald Lehnich [de] (1895–1961)
  • Hans Weidemann (1904–1975)
  • Karl Melzer, Managing Director
  • Franz Belitz [de] (born 1881)
  • Carl Froelich (1875–1953)
  • Siegmund Jung, from the economic staff of Adolf Hitler's deputy
  • Willi Krause (writer) [de] (1907–1945)
  • Botho Mulert [de] (1883–1963)
  • Hans-Jürgen Nierentz [de] (1909–1995)
  • Ernst Seeger [de] (1884–1937)
  • Fritz Scheuermann (jurist) [de] (* 1887)
  • Sepp Allgeier (1895–1968)
  • Friedrich Kayßler (1874–1945)
  • Ludwig Klitzsch [de] (1881–1954)
  • Theodor Loos (1883–1954)

State Cultural Administrators

  • Adolf Schmid [de], Gau Baden
  • Hans Kolbe [de], Gau Bavarian Ostmark
  • Hermann Brouwers [de], Gau Düsseldorf
  • Arnold Fischer [de], Gau Essen
  • Fritz Lindenberg [de], Gau Halle-Merseburg
  • Erich Schmidt (Nazi) [de] (1900–1981), Gau Hamburg
  • Friedrich Schmonsees [de], Gau Hanover-East
  • Herbert Huxhagen [de], Gau Hanover-South
  • Wilhelm Müller-Scheld [de], Gau Hesse-Nassau
  • Wilhelm Michels (Nazi functionary) [de], Gau Koblenz-Trier
  • Toni Winkelnkemper [de], Cologne-Aachen district
  • A. Lindemann; August Heinrich Scherer [de], Gau Kurmark
  • Alfred Mitsching; Fritz Ihlenburg [de], Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt
  • Alexander Sondermann [de], Gau Mecklenburg
  • Hans Bäselsöder [de], Gau Franconia
  • Otto Nippold [de], Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria
  • Joachim Paltzo [de], Gau East Prussia
  • Rudolf Trampler [de], Gau Rheinpfalz
  • Heinrich Salzmann (Nazi politician) [de], Gau Saxony
  • Gustav Schierholz [de], Gau Schleswig-Holstein
  • Georg Traeg [de], Gau Swabia
  • Waldemar Vogt [de], Gau Lower Franconia
  • Ernst Schulze, Gau Weser-Ems
  • Fritz Schmidt, Gau Westphalia-Nord
  • Hermann Brust [de], Gau Westphalia-South
  • F. Schmidt, Gau Württemberg

See also

References

  1. ^ "The members of the Reich Cultural Senate" ("Die Mitgliedes der Reichskultursenats"). Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 16 November 1935, p. 2.
  2. ^ "Clear order in cultural life" ("Klare Ordnung im Kulturleben"). Der Freiheitskampf [de], 16 November 1935, pp. 1–2.
  3. ^ Hakenkreuzbanner newspaper, 16 November 1935, No. 530. [1]