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.

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 (1886–1945), managing director of the Reich Chamber of Culture, ministerial councillor
• Franz Moraller (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) (1897–1947)
• Richard Suchenwirth (1896–1965)
• Hans Friedrich Blunck (1888–1961)
• Karl Baur (publisher) (1898–1984)
• Wilhelm Baur (publisher) (1905–1945)
• Theodor Fritsch (bookseller) (1895–1946)
• Karl Heinz Hederich (1902–1976)
• Carl Vincent Krogmann (1889–1978), Hamburg
• Gerhard Schumann (1911–1995)
• Martin Wülfing (1899–1986)
• Heinrich Anacker (1901–1971)
• Edwin Erich Dwinger (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 (1893–1945)
• Franz Adam (conductor) (1885–1954) from the staff of Adolf Hitler's deputy
• Fritz Kaiser
• Friedrich Krebs (1894–1961), Frankfurt am Main
• Hermann Müller-John (1894–1945), music master of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
• Horst Sander (1904–1945), head of the German Musical Association
• Hermann Stange (music director) (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 (born 1892)
• Gunter d'Alquen (1910–1998)
• Hans Schwarz van Berk (1902–1973)
• Alfred Ingemar Berndt (1905–1945)
• Willi Bischoff (born 1886)
• Edgar Brinkmann (publisher) (born 1896)
• Adolf Dresler (1898–1971)
• Walther Heide (1894–1945)
• Hans Hornauer (born 1902)
• Rolf Rienhardt (1903–1975)
• Wilhelm Weiß (1892–1950)
• Josef Berchtold (1897–1962)
• Heinrich Fetkötter (born 1902)
• Richard Jügler (born 1889)

Members from the Reich Theater Chamber

• Rainer Schlösser (1899–1945)
• Eugen Klöpfer (1886–1950)
• Alfred Frauenfeld (1898–1977)
• Benno von Arent (1898–1956)
• Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963)
• Otto Krauß (1890–1966), Stuttgart
• Lothar Müthel (1896–1964)
• Bernhard zu Solms-Laubach (1900–1938)
• Wilhelm Müller-Scheld (1895–1970), regional office manager
• Oskar Walleck (1890–1976)
• Hellmuth Will (1900–1982)
• Friedrich Bethge (1891–1963)
• Heinz Hilpert (1890–1967)
• Werner Krauss (1884–1959)
• Wilhelm Rode (1887–1959)
• Heinz Tietjen (1881–1967)

Members of the Reich Broadcasting Chamber

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

Members of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts

• Eugen Hönig (1873–1945)
• Adolf Ziegler (1892–1959)
• Walter Hoffmann (life dates unknown, missing since 1945)
• Erich Dammeier
• Willy Kelter
• Otto von Keudell (1887–1972)
• Hans Sauermann (1885–1960)
• Albert Speer (1905–1981)
• Kurt Schmid-Ehmen (1901–1968)
• Ernst Schulte Strathaus (1881–1968)
• Hans Schweitzer (1901–1980)
• Ernst Zörner (1895–1945), mayor of Dresden
• Paul Baumgarten (architect, born 1873) (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 (1895–1961)
• Hans Weidemann (1904–1975)
• Karl Melzer, Managing Director
• Franz Belitz (born 1881)
• Carl Froelich (1875–1953)
• Siegmund Jung, from the economic staff of Adolf Hitler's deputy
• Willi Krause (writer) (1907–1945)
• Botho Mulert (1883–1963)
• Hans-Jürgen Nierentz (1909–1995)
• Ernst Seeger (1884–1937)
• Fritz Scheuermann (jurist) (* 1887)
• Sepp Allgeier (1895–1968)
• Friedrich Kayßler (1874–1945)
• Ludwig Klitzsch (1881–1954)
• Theodor Loos (1883–1954)

State Cultural Administrators

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

See also

• Gottbegnadeten list
• List of honorary professorships awarded by Adolf Hitler

References