Reich commissioner

Zeigner was replaced by a Reich commissioner two days later on 27 October.

Papen appointed himself Reich commissioner for Prussia and took control of the government.

In 1942, he became Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation.

In the same year, the Führer named him "Reich Commissioner for the German Film Industry".

In January 1945, he was appointed as Special Reich Commissioner for all the concentration camps by Himmler.

On July 20 he deposed the Prussian government and appointed himself Reich Commissioner for Prussia.

Using Article 48, Hindenburg named Papen the Reich Commissioner of Prussia.

During the war, Himmler in his capacity as Reich Commissioner oversaw the kidnapping of Polish children to be Germanized.

As Reich Commissioner for Eastern Germany, he was not successful in saving the country from bankruptcy and after this failure he resigned in August 1931.

In Saxony the Socialist-Communist government was arrested by the local Reichswehr commander and a Reich Commissioner appointed to rule.

By 21 April, Joseph Goebbels, as Reich Commissioner for Berlin, ordered that "no man capable of bearing arms may leave Berlin".

The SS had suggested either Josef Terboven or Ernst Kaltenbrunner as the Reich Commissioner of the civilian administration.

When re-incorporation was completed, the governor became Reichskommissar für das Saarland, "Reich Commissioner of Saarland" on 17 June 1936.

As Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood, Himmler was deeply involved in the Germanization program for the East, particularly Poland.

Otto-Heinrich Drechsler was appointed its commissioner general, with headquarters in Riga, the seat of the Reich Commissioner for Ostland, Hinrich Lohse.

Schweitzer was named a professor in 1937, and was named "Reich Commissioner for Artistic Design" and chairman of the Reich Committee of Press Illustrators.

In his capacity as Reich Commissioner for the hospitals and nursing homes, Linden coordinated patients of the medical and nursing homes in Northern and Western Germany 1943.

In addition, Huber was political adviser to the Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach and his representative as Defense of the Reich Commissioner for the Military District XVII.

Military forces such as the Heer and Luftwaffe remained under direct command of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht in Germany throughout the war, but all other authority was vested in the Reich commissioner.

There had been the option to use the Tower as a command facility for the defence of Berlin, by General Hellmuth Reymann, the Reich Commissioner in charge of the cities defence effort.