Party Chancellery until 1941 Staff of the Deputy Führer

Deputy Führer

Deputy Führer was the title for the deputy head of the Nazi Party, which was held by Rudolf Hess until his flight to the United Kingdom in 1941. After this event, Adolf Hitler abolished the office and replaced it with the office of Party Chancellery, which was given to Martin Bormann....

(Stab des Stellvertreters des Führers), was the name of the head office of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Organization

Since 1933 the party office with its seat in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 had been under Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

's deputy Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s...

 in the rank of a Reich Minister in Hitler's cabinet. The organisation responsible for handling party affairs rivaled for influence not only with the Reich Chancellery

Reich Chancellery

The Reich Chancellery was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany in the period of the German Reich from 1871 to 1945...

 under Hans Lammers

Hans Lammers

Dr.jur. Hans Heinrich Lammers was a German jurist and prominent Nazi politician. From 1933 until 1945 he served as head of the Reich Chancellery under Adolf Hitler....

 but also with the Führer's Chancellery

Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers)

Die Kanzlei des Führers , also known as Privatkanzlei des Führers, was the Chancellery responsible for the Nazi Party and associated organizations and their dealings directly with Hitler...

 and the Nazi Gau-

Gauleiter

A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau.-Creation and Early Usage:...

and Reichsleiter

Reichsleiter

Reichsleiter , was the second highest political rank of the NSDAP next only to the office of Führer. Reichsleiter also served as a paramilitary rank, for the Nazi Party and was the highest position attainable in any Nazi-Organisation.The Reichsleiter reported directly to Adolf Hitler, in whose...

. Hess' man in charge was Martin Bormann

Martin Bormann

Martin Ludwig Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler...

, who served as his private secretary and soon became an efficient and indispensable representative of the party's interests, disempowering the regional leaders on intermediate level and reaching the party's involvement in the enactment of laws and Führer

Führer

Führer , alternatively spelled Fuehrer in both English and German when the umlaut is not available, is a German title meaning leader or guide now most associated with Adolf Hitler, who modelled it on Benito Mussolini's title il Duce, as well as with Georg von Schönerer, whose followers also...

's decrees. Bormann was influential in establishing the Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry

Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry

The Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry was a donation from the German employers' association and the "Reichsverband" of German industry, which was established on June 1, 1933 to support the NSDAP...

 and subsequently reached the position as Hitler's property administrator.

After Hess' flight to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 in 1941, Bormann on May 12 was appointed head of the renamed Party Chancellery in the rank of a Reich Minister after the Führer had publicly stripped Hess of his offices. Bormann used his position to restrict access to Hitler for his own benefit and, supported by deputies like Albert Hoffmann

Albert Hoffmann (Gauleiter)

Albert Hoffmann was a German entrepreneur and during the Third Reich the Nazi Gauleiter of Westphalia-South.-Early life:...

, Gerhard Klopfer

Gerhard Klopfer

Gerhard Klopfer was an official of the Nazi Party and assistant to Martin Bormann in the Office of the Party Chancellery....

 and Helmuth Friedrichs

Helmuth Friedrichs

Helmuth Friedrichs was a German Nazi Party official. He was an important figure in the Office of the Deputy Führer and its successor the Nazi Party Chancellery.-Early years:...

, to further party influence in areas such as armaments and manpower. Armaments Minister Albert Speer

Albert Speer

Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...

complained about Bormann's interfering with his staff in this manner. In 1943 Bormann was appointed the Führer's Private Secretary, reaching a unique trust relationship with Hitler.