Talk:Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

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I am happy to see that you have fun with this article. Apparently the Gdansk article doesn't offer enough time for your edit warring hobby. Doesn't it become boring over the years? Anyhow, if you don't have anything to tell about the person in this article, then I suggest that you leave this article alone. This note is especially for Burschenschafter (formerly known as Nico) who started this edit war. -- Baldhur 07:56, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] List of Ministers?

The page notes that Goerdeler and the German anti-Hitler movement developed a list of potential ministers - is that available anywhere? It seems like it'd make a decent article 210.49.99.120 (talk) 10:13, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

In response to the above request, here is the final Cabinet list of 1944. Goerdeler went through several Cabinet lists over the years, but the final one that was agreed to in June 1944 that would formed the Cabinet of the provisional government had the July 20 plot succeeded ran as follows:

• Regent (Reichsverweser) : General Ludwig Beck
• State Secretary to the Regent: Count Ulrich Schwerin-Schwandenfeld
• Chancellor: Dr. Carl Goerdeler (DNVP)
• State Secretary to the Chancellor: Count Peter Yorck von Wartenburg
• Vice-Chancellor: Wilhelm Leuschner (SPD)
• Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Jakob Kaiser (Christian Trade Union leader)
• Minister of War: General Friedrich Olbricht
• State Secretary to the Minister of War: Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg
• Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces: Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben
• Commander in Chief of the Army: General Erich Hoepner
• Minister of the Interior: Julius Leber (SPD)
• Minister of Economics: Dr. Paul Lejeune-Jung (lawyer and economist)
• Minister of Finance: Ewald Loeser (formerly of the DNVP)
• Minister of Justice: Joseph Wirmer (Zentrum)
• Minister of Education: Eugen Bolz (Zentrum)
• Minister of Agriculture: Andreas Hermes (Zentrum)
• Minister of Reconstruction: Bernhard Letterhaus (Christian Trade Union leader)
• Minister of Information: Theodor Haubach (SPD)

The position of Minister of Foreign Affairs would have went to either Ulrich von Hassell (former ambassador to Italy) or Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg (former ambassador to the Soviet Union) depending upon whatever the Western powers or the Soviet Union signed a armistice with the new German government first. All of this information is from pages 622-623 from the excellent The Nemesis of Power The German Army In Politics, Macmillan, London, 1964, 1967 by Sir John Wheeler-Bennett. I hope that this answers your question well enough. --A.S. Brown (talk) 04:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

That answers my question very nicely, thank you Xt828 (talk) 23:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)