Reich Cultural Senate Explained

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
(1886–1945), managing director of the Reich Chamber of Culture, ministerial councillor
(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)
(1897–1947)
(1896–1965)
Hans Friedrich Blunck (1888–1961)
(1898–1984)
(1905–1945)
(1895–1946)
(1902–1976)
Carl Vincent Krogmann (1889–1978), Hamburg
(1911–1995)
(1899–1986)
Heinrich Anacker (1901–1971)
(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
(1893–1945)
(1885–1954) from the staff of Adolf Hitler's deputy
Fritz Kaiser
Friedrich Krebs (1894–1961), Frankfurt am Main
(1894–1945), music master of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
(1904–1945), head of the German Musical Association
(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
(born 1892)
Gunter d'Alquen (1910–1998)
(1902–1973)
Alfred Ingemar Berndt (1905–1945)
(born 1886)
(born 1896)
(1898–1971)
(1894–1945)
(born 1902)
(1903–1975)
Wilhelm Weiß (1892–1950)
Josef Berchtold (1897–1962)
(born 1902)
(born 1889)

Rainer Schlösser (1899–1945)
Eugen Klöpfer (1886–1950)
Alfred Frauenfeld (1898–1977)
Benno von Arent (1898–1956)
Gustaf Gründgens (1899–1963)
(1890–1966), Stuttgart
Lothar Müthel (1896–1964)
(1900–1938)
(1895–1970), regional office manager
Oskar Walleck (1890–1976)
(1900–1982)
Friedrich Bethge (1891–1963)
Heinz Hilpert (1890–1967)
Werner Krauss (1884–1959)
(1887–1959)
Heinz Tietjen (1881–1967)

Eugen Hönig (1873–1945)
Adolf Ziegler (1892–1959)
(life dates unknown, missing since 1945)
- - (1887–1972)
(1885–1960)
Albert Speer (1905–1981)
(1901–1968)
(1881–1968)
Hans Schweitzer (1901–1980)
(1895–1945), mayor of Dresden
(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")., 16 November 1935, pp. 1–2.
Hakenkreuzbanner newspaper, 16 November 1935, No. 530. https://druckschriften-digital.marchivum.de/zd/periodical/zoom/25292