Reich ministers were the members of the Provisional Central Power of the short-lived German Reich of 1848/49 as well as the government of the German Reich between 1919 and 1945.
1848/1849, instead of the organs of the German federation, the Frankfurt National Assembly as parliament and the provisional central power used by it as government. Under the Central Power Act of June 28, 1848, the Reichsverweser appointed the Reichsminister. With the end of the central power on 20 December, the activities of the Reichsminister also ended.
In the time of the previous German Emperor between 1871 and 1918, there was no collegial government with ministers, but only one Reichskanzler as the only responsible minister. The state secretaries of the supreme Reich authorities, the Reichsämter, were subordinate to the Chancellor. Instead of Reichsregierung evoked by "Reichsleitung."
In the Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1933 the Reichsminister were, besides the Reichskanzler, the other members of the Reichsregierung as a collegial body, appointed by the Reichspräsident on the suggestion of the Reichskanzler. A Chancellor or Minister had to resign if a majority of the Reichstag required this. In 1919, under the Act on the Provisional Reichsgewalt, the official title of the Reichskanzler was first President of the Reichsministerium (also Reichsministerespräsident).
During the period of National Socialism between 1933 and 1945, the Reich Ministers had been appointed "leader and chancellor" by Adolf Hitler since 1934 and were solely responsible to him (leader principle). Constitutional bodies of the Weimar Republic
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