Hans Lammers
Obergruppenführer Dr. Jur. Hans Heinrich Lammers (27.05.1879 – 4.01.1962) was a head of the Reich Chancellery. Lammers completed law school in Breslau and Heidelberg, and was a judge in Beuthen in 1912. Lammers received the Iron Cross, First and Second Class, during the First World War, then resumed his career as a lawyer. In 1932, Lammers joined the Nazi Party and achieved rapid promotion, appointed a police department head in 1933, and soon afterwards a State Secretary and chief of the Reich Chancellery. From 1937, he was a member of Adolf Hitler's cabinet as a Reich Minister without Portfolio, and from 30 November 1939 a member of the Council of Ministers for the Defence of the Reich. Beginning in January 1943, Lammers served as President of the cabinet. After the war in April 1946 Lammers was a witness at the Nuremberg tribunal. In April 1949 he was put under Subsequent Nuremberg Trials in the Ministries Trial and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The sentence was later reduced to 10 years, and he was pardoned and released in 1952.
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