Chief of the Reich Chancellery

The Chief of the Reich Chancellery (German: Chef der Reichskanzlei) was the highest-ranking official of the Reich Chancellery and the principal assistant of the Chancellor of Germany.

Chief of the Reich Chancellery
Chef der Reichskanzlei (German)
Longest serving Hans Lammers 30 January 1933–24 April 1945
Reich Chancellery
Type	State Secretary (until 1937), Reich Minister (from 1937)
Status	Abolished
Reports to	Chancellor
Formation	1878
First holder	Christoph von Tiedemann (de)
Final holder	Hans Lammers
Abolished	1945
Superseded by	Chief of the Federal Chancellery

List of officeholders

No.	Portrait	Name (born–died)	Term of office			Political party		Cabinet	Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Christoph von Tiedemann (de) (1836–1907)	21 March 1871	20 September 1881	10 years, 183 days		German Reich Party	Bismarck	[1]
2		Franz Johannes von Rottenburg (de) (1845–1907)	14 October 1881	19 January 1891	9 years, 97 days		Independent	Bismarck Caprivi	[2]
3		Karl Göring (1829–1905)	1 February 1891	31 December 1894	3 years, 333 days		Independent	Caprivi Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst
4		Kurt von Wilmowsky (de) (1850–1941)	1 January 1895	15 August 1901	6 years, 226 days		Independent	Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Bülow	[3]
5		Alfred von Conrad (de) (1852–1914)	14 August 1901	18 September 1904	3 years, 35 days		Independent	Bülow
6		Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (de) (1855–1931)	25 September 1904	14 July 1909	4 years, 292 days		German Conservative Party	Bülow	[4]
7		Arnold Wahnschaffe (de) (1865–1941)	20 November 1909	11 August 1917	7 years, 264 days		Independent	Bethmann Hollweg Michaelis
8		Hans Joachim von Graevenitz (de) (1874–1938)	11 August 1917	9 November 1917	90 days		Independent	Michaelis
9		Wilhelm von Radowitz (de) (1875–1939)	20 November 1917	17 October 1918	331 days		Independent	Hertling
(7)		Arnold Wahnschaffe (de) (1865–1941)	18 October 1918	9 November 1918	22 days		Independent	Baden
10		Curt Baake (de) (1864–1940)	13 February 1919	3 March 1919	18 days		Social Democratic Party of Germany	Scheidemann	[5]
11		Heinrich Albert (1874–1960)	3 March 1919	24 May 1921	2 years, 82 days		Independent	Scheidemann Bauer Müller I Fehrenbach Wirth I	[5][6] [7][8] [9]
–		Arnold Brecht (1884–1977) acting	24 May 1921	3 August 1921	71 days		Independent	Wirth I	[9]
12		Heinrich Hemmer (de) (1886–1942)	3 August 1921	22 November 1922	1 year, 111 days		Independent	Wirth I–II	[9]
13		Eduard Hamm (1881–1944)	22 November 1922	12 August 1923	263 days		German Democratic Party	Cuno	[10]
14		Werner von Rheinbaben (1878–1975)	13 August 1923	17 October 1923	65 days		German People's Party	Stresemann I–II	[11]
15		Adolf Kempkes (de) (1871–1931)	17 October 1923	23 November 1923	37 days		German People's Party	Stresemann II	[11]
16		Franz Bracht (1877–1933)	30 November 1923	18 December 1924	1 year, 18 days		Independent	Marx I–II	[12]
17		Franz Kempner (de) (1879–1945)	16 January 1925	20 July 1926	1 year, 185 days		German People's Party	Luther I–II Marx III	[13][14]
18		Hermann Pünder (1888–1976)	20 July 1926	1 June 1932	5 years, 317 days		Centre Party	Marx III–IV Müller II Brüning I–II	[14][15] [16]
19		Erwin Planck (1893–1945)	1 June 1932	30 January 1933	243 days		Independent	Papen Schleicher	[17][18]
20		Hans Lammers (1879–1962)	30 January 1933	24 April 1945	12 years, 84 days		Nazi Party	Hitler