Hans Lammers

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Hans Lammers (1879-1962) was a German lawyer, who joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and eventually headed the Chancellery of the Reich, also serving as chief legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the Cabinet.

He was part of an attempt to focus Hitler's chaotic decisionmaking, although it also was a power grab in the shifting alliances of Nazi officialdom. The heads of the three essentially administrative bodies surrounding him, to control the documents that would reach Hitler for signature. Those three officials were:

Hitler's military adjutants still controlled war-related appointments. [1] As the war progressed, and the traditional state government lost influence, he also lost influence in comparison to Martin Bormann and the Chancellery of the Fuehrer, and Philip Bouhler and the Chancellery of the Nazi Party. A fourth chancellery, originally that of the Reich President had been made irrelevant when Hitler combined the offices of the President and the Chancellor. Its head, Otto Meissner, became a State Secretary and Minister without Portfolio.

He was sentenced to 20 years in the Ministries Case (NMT).

References

  1. Albert Speer (1970), Inside the Third Reich, Macmillan, pp. 252-254