List of Goering's positions in the Nazi party, government, and military (1922-45)

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Hermann Goering (Reich Marshal; Commander in Chief, Luftwaffe; Commissioner for Four-Year Plan)

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Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

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  • Born: 1893-01-12 (Rosenheim)
  • Died: 1945-01-01 1946-10-15 (Nuremberg Court Prison Nuremberg) (reason for deprecated rank: error in referenced source or sources; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
  • Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany
  • Occupation: aircraft pilot; art collector; politician; war criminal
  • Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1922-11-01 through 1923-11-23, 1928-04-01 through 1945-04-29)
  • Member of: Sturmabteilung
  • Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch; Nazi plunder; genocide; war crime
  • Significant person: Alma Hedin (role: friend)

Date: November 1945

Literal Title: Offices and Positions Held by Defendant Hermann Go[e]ring

Defendant: Hermann Wilhelm Goering

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-2836

HLSL Item No.: 452310

Notes:Another copy of PS 2836 was entered as US exhibit 4; this copy was apparently not presented in the case against Goering.

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Biographical and character evidence (all cases)

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PS-2836: List, signed by Goring and his counsel, November 1945, of the posts held by Goring 1922 to 1945

OFFICES AND POSITIONS HELD BY DEFENDANT HERMANN GOERING
It is hereby agreed that Hermann Goering, a defendant in the action pending before the International Military Tribunal, was appointed or elected, as the case may be, to the positions and held the offices entitled thereto during the time as set forth below:
1. Party member (1922-1945).
2. Supreme Leader of the SA (1923-Nov. 1923).
3. Member of the Reichstag (1928).
4. President of the Reichstag (1932).
5. Prussian Minister of the Interior (1933-1934).
6. Prussian Prime Minister (1933-1945).
7. Prussian Chief of Secret State Police (1933-1936)
(1934 on Himmler).
8. Prussian Chief of State Counsel (1933-1945).
9. Plenipotentiary of the Four-Year Plan (1936-1945).
10. Reichsminister for Air (1933-1945).
11. Commander in Chief of the Air Force (1935-1945).
12. President of the Cabinet Counsel for the Defense of
the Reichs (1939-1945).
13. Member of the Secret Cabinet Counsel (1938-1945).
14. Reichsmarshall (1939-1945).
15. Successor designate to Hitler (1939-1945).
16. Head of Reichswerke Hermann Goering (1937-1945).
17. Head of Gestapo in Prussia (1933-1934).
CERTIFICATE
I hereby certify that the above is true this-----day of'November 1945.
[signed] H. Goring
Defendant [signed] Dr. Stahmer ' Attorney for defendant