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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Members of the Reich Cultural Senate at the time of its founding

Walther Funk (1890–1960), Vice President of the Reich Chamber of Culture, State President
Hans Schmidt-Leonhardt [de] (1886–1945), managing director of the Reich Chamber of Culture, ministerial councillor
Franz Moraller [de] (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

Hanns Johst (1890–1978)
Heinz Wismann (ministerial official) [de] (1897–1947)
Richard Suchenwirth [de] (1896–1965)
Hans Friedrich Blunck (1888–1961)
Karl Baur (publisher) [de] (1898–1984)
Wilhelm Baur (publisher) [de] (1905–1945)
Theodor Fritsch (bookseller) [de] (1895–1946)
Karl Heinz Hederich [de] (1902–1976)
Carl Vincent Krogmann (1889–1978), Hamburg
Gerhard Schumann [de] (1911–1995)
Martin Wülfing [de] (1899–1986)
Heinrich Anacker (1901–1971)
Edwin Erich Dwinger [de] (1898–1981)
Richard Euringer (1891–1953)
Eberhard Wolfgang Möller (1906–1972)
Hermann Stehr (1864–1940)

Peter Raabe (1872–1945)
Paul Graener (1872–1944), who was also appointed Vice President of the Reich Music Chamber
Heinz Ihlert [de] (1893–1945)
Franz Adam (conductor) [de] (1885–1954) from the staff of Adolf Hitler's deputy
Fritz Kaiser
Friedrich Krebs (1894–1961), Frankfurt am Main
Hermann Müller-John [de] (1894–1945), music master of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Horst Sander [de] (1904–1945), head of the German Musical Association
Hermann Stange (music director) [de] (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)

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 [de] (born 1892)
Gunter d'Alquen (1910–1998)
Hans Schwarz van Berk [de] (1902–1973)
Alfred Ingemar Berndt (1905–1945)
Willi Bischoff [de] (born 1886)
Edgar Brinkmann (publisher) [de] (born 1896)
Adolf Dresler [de] (1898–1971)
Walther Heide [de] (1894–1945)
Hans Hornauer [de] (born 1902)
Rolf Rienhardt [de] (1903–1975)
Wilhelm Weiß (1892–1950)
Josef Berchtold (1897–1962)
Heinrich Fetkötter [de] (born 1902)
Richard Jügler [de] (born 1889)

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

Eugen Hönig (1873–1945)
Adolf Ziegler (1892–1959)
Walter Hoffmann [de] (life dates unknown, missing since 1945)
Erich Dammeier [de]
Willy Kelter [de]
Otto von Keudell [de] (1887–1972)
Hans Sauermann [de] (1885–1960)
Albert Speer (1905–1981)
Kurt Schmid-Ehmen [de] (1901–1968)
Ernst Schulte Strathaus [de] (1881–1968)
Hans Schweitzer (1901–1980)
Ernst Zörner [de] (1895–1945), mayor of Dresden
Paul Baumgarten (architect, born 1873) [de] (1873–1946)
German Bestelmeyer (1874–1942), President of the Munich Academy
Oswald Bieber (1874–1955)
Leonhard Gall (1884–1952)
Richard Klein (1890–1967)

^ "The members of the Reich Cultural Senate" ("Die Mitgliedes der Reichskultursenats"). Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 16 November 1935, p. 2.
^ "Clear order in cultural life" ("Klare Ordnung im Kulturleben"). Der Freiheitskampf [de], 16 November 1935, pp. 1–2.
^ Hakenkreuzbanner newspaper, 16 November 1935, No. 530. [1]