Reich Ministry of Finance

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The Reich Ministry of Finance was the central financial authority of Nazi Germany, responsible for managing the regime’s budget, taxation, and funding of its war and genocidal policies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf finance ministry
government ministry
appliesToJurisdiction Nazi Germany
surface form: German Reich

Nazi Germany
archivesAt German Federal Archives
country Germany
dissolved 1945
employer German civil servants
hasMainResponsibility confiscation and management of property of persecuted groups
federal budget of Germany
financial administration of occupied territories
financing of German rearmament
financing of World War II for Nazi Germany
fiscal aspects of antisemitic policies
fiscal aspects of the Holocaust
fiscal policy of Germany
public debt management
taxation in Germany
hasMinister Andreas Hermes
Johannes Popitz
Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
surface form: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

Matthias Erzberger
hasPart Third Reich economic bureaucracy
surface form: Reich tax administration

budget department
customs administration of the German Reich
debt administration department
foreign exchange control offices
headquartersLocation Berlin
inception 1919
languageOfWorkOrName German
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Berlin
locatedInTimePeriod Nazi Germany
Weimar Republic
nativeLabel Reich Ministry of Finance self-linksurface differs
surface form: Reichsministerium der Finanzen
officeholder Andreas Hermes
Johannes Popitz
Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
surface form: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

Matthias Erzberger
participatesIn German war economy during World War II
Nazi economic policy
fiscal persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany
partOf Nazi Germany
surface form: Government of Nazi Germany
replaces Imperial Ministry of Finance
significantEvent coordination of tax policies to support total war
involvement in expropriation of Jewish assets
participation in financing Nazi war economy
subordinateTo Chancellor of Germany
Reich government

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Reich Ministry of Economics cooperatedWith Reich Ministry of Finance
Reich Air Ministry currentUseOfHeadquartersBuilding Reich Ministry of Finance
this entity surface form: German Finance Ministry headquarters (post-war)
Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin hasBuilding Reich Ministry of Finance
this entity surface form: Reich Finance Ministry
this entity surface form: Reich Minister of Finance of Germany
Third Reich economic bureaucracy includesAgency Reich Ministry of Finance
Reich Ministry of Finance nativeLabel Reich Ministry of Finance self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Reichsministerium der Finanzen
Matthias Erzberger positionHeld Reich Ministry of Finance
this entity surface form: Reich Minister of Finance
Ministries Trial triedInstitution Reich Ministry of Finance