Chancellors of Germany

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 115. Chapters: Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, Joseph Goebbels, Helmut Kohl, Willy Brandt, Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Helmut Schmidt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Angela Merkel, Prince Maximilian of Baden, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Friedrich Ebert, Adolf Hitler, Bernhard von Bülow, Gerhard Schröder, Franz von Papen, Gustav Stresemann, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, List of German Chancellors by longevity, List of Chancellors of Germany, Heinrich Brüning, Wilhelm Marx, Kurt von Schleicher, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Leo von Caprivi, Joseph Wirth, Hermann Müller, Philipp Scheidemann, Hans Luther, Georg von Hertling, Gustav Bauer, Georg Michaelis, Wilhelm Cuno, Constantin Fehrenbach, Hans Albrecht von Barfus, List of Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany by time in office. Excerpt: Adolf Hitler (German pronunciation: ; 20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: , abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is most remembered for his central leadership role in the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II and the Holocaust. A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919, and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a coup d'état known as the Beer Hall Putsch, which occurred at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich on 8-9 November 1923. Hitler was imprisoned for one year due to the failed coup, and wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (in English "My Struggle"), while imprisoned. After his release on 20 December 1924, he gained support by promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933, and transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Hitler ultimately wanted to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe. To achieve this, he pursued a foreign policy with the declared goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Aryan people; directing the resources of the state towards this goal. This included the rearmament of Germany, which culminated in 1939 when the Wehrmacht invaded Poland. In response, the United Kingdom and France declared war against Germany, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Within three years, German forces and their European allies had occupied most of Europe, and most of North Africa, and the Japanese forces had occupied parts of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. However, with the reversal of t