Hitler's Henchmen

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Hermann Esser – Early member of the Nazi Party; propagandist; editor of Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter; Second Vice-President of the Reichstag; State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda (1938–1945). Karl Jäger – SS officer; Einsatzkommando leader; author of the " Jäger Report" giving details of mass murders in Lithuania between July and December 1941. Werner von Blomberg – Generalfeldmarschall, Defense Minister 1933–1935, Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 1935–1938. Forced out in the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair.

Herbert Otto Gille – SS- Obergruppenfuhrer; Waffen-SS General. Awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds and the German Cross in Gold, became the most highly decorated Waffen-SS member during World War II. Albert Hoffmann – The Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South from 1943 to 1945, at the same time he was Deputy to Goebbels in his capacity as Reich Inspector for Civil Air Warfare Measures and an SS- Gruppenführer. Eugen Munder – Early party organizer in Stuttgart; Gauleiter of Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern from 1925 to 1928.Ernst Rudin – Psychiatrist and eugenicist. His work directly influenced the racial policy of Nazi Germany. Franz Gürtner – Minister of Justice in Bavaria (1922–1932) he became Reich Minister of Justice from 1932 to his death in 1941. Erwin Rösener – SS- Obergruppenführer, Higher SS and Police Leader, Commander SS Upper Division Alpenland (1941–1945). Franz Hofer – Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg; Landeshauptmann of Tyrol; Supreme Commissioner of the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills. He was an advocate for creating an Alpine Fortress as a last stand redoubt for Nazi forces. He was an NSKK- Obergruppenführer. Ernst Wilhelm Bohle – Gauleiter of the Nazi Party/Foreign Organization from 1933 until 1945, he was also an SS- Obergruppenführer.

Hans Lammers – Head of the Reich Chancellery and Reich Minister without portfolio. He was also an SS- Obergruppenführer. Hjalmar Schacht – An economist, banker and politician, who served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. A fierce critic of post-World War I reparation obligations, he became a supporter of Hitler and served as President of the Reichsbank and Reich Minister of Economics. He played a key role in restoring the German economy but since he opposed the policy of German re-armament, Schacht was first sidelined and then forced out beginning in December 1937. Schacht became a fringe member of the German Resistance and was imprisoned after the 20 July plot in 1944. He was tried at Nuremberg and acquitted. Martin Bormann – Reichsleiter, head of the Party Chancellery (Parteikanzlei) and Secretary to the Führer, Adolf Hitler. Also an SS- Obergruppenführer, he committed suicide in May 1945. Convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death in absentia by the Nuremberg Tribunal. The phrase henchman is also used as a pejorative for any sort of political mastermind or to present others as such. Thus it was used for associates of President George W. Bush, [1] [2] e.g., by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. [3] Likewise, it was also used against associates of the former U.S. President Bill Clinton. [4] Rebekah Brooks has been described as the henchwoman of Rupert Murdoch. [5] Karl Dönitz – Großadmiral, Führer der Unterseeboote (Commander of Submarines) 1936–1943, Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine 1943–1945 and the last head of state of Nazi Germany following Hitler's suicide.Franz Schlegelberger – Jurist and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (1931–1941) he became Acting Reich Minister of Justice (1941–1942). Friedrich Buchardt – Member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads, who started off grading people on their Germanness and then progressed to outright genocide. Attributed to having been responsible for sending tens of thousands to their deaths, avoided justice by working for the Allied powers as an "Intelligence Source" on the Soviets. Labor: Bush's 'Job-friendly' Economy isn't Worker Friendly". Zmag. ZNet. May 6, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-05-06.

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski – An SS- Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei, he was the commander of the "Bandenkampfverbände" SS units responsible for the mass murder of 35,000 civilians in Riga and more than 200,000 in Belarus and eastern Poland. Franz Schwede – The first Nazi elected as Bürgermeister of a German City ( Coburg) he was later Gauleiter of Gau Pomerania, Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Pomerania and an SA- Obergruppenführer.A recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Originally appointed adjutant to Sepp Dietrich in 1941. [38]

Kaplan, Fred (May 14, 2004). "Quit blaming your henchmen, Mr. President". Slate Magazine . Retrieved 2014-05-22. The term henchman originally referred to one who attended a horse for his employer, that is, a horse groom. Hence, like constable and marshal, also originally stable staff, henchman became the title of a subordinate official in a royal court or noble household. Heinrich Himmler – Reichsführer-SS. As head of the SS, Chief of the German Police and later Reich Minister of the Interior, one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich. Reichsleiter, Commander-in-Chief of the Replacement Army and Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood. Expelled from offices by Hitler in late April 1945.

6. Erich Raeder

Otto Wagener – Soldier and economist. Was successively Stabschef of the SA, head of the Party Economic Policy Section, and briefly, Reich Commissar for the Economy. Subsequently he resumed his army career, reaching the rank of Generalmajor. Horst Wessel – Sturmführer in the Berlin SA and author of the Horst-Wessel-Lied ("Die Fahne Hoch"), the Party anthem. Elevated to martyr status by Nazi propaganda after his 1930 murder– by Communists or by a rival pimp, according to their opponents.