Event class: von, hitler, german, ss, berlin, became, germany, nazi, appointed, joined

Events with high posterior probability

Henning von Tresckow	The elimination of Oster's group in April 1943 (his deputy Hans von Dohnanyi and Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer were arrested, and Oster was placed under house arrest) was a further setback.
Rudolf Lange	From May to July 1940, Lange ran the Gestapo offices of Weimar and Erfurt, while working as the deputy head of the office of the Inspector of the SiPo in Kassel.
Arthur Greiser	Immediately following the German invasion of Poland, Greiser was transferred from Danzig and appointed'' Chef der Zivilverwaltung im Militärbezirk Posen'' or Chief of Civil Administration in the military district of Posen, which was annexed to the German Reich on 8 September 1939.
Hans Frank	From 26 October 1939, following the end of the invasion of Poland, Frank was assigned Governor-General of the occupied Polish territories (Generalgouverneur für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), controlling the General Government, the area of Poland not directly incorporated into Germany (roughly 90,000 km ² out of the 187,000 km ² Germany had gained).
Franz Josef Huber	Huber did remain good friends with Heinrich Müller who was appointed Gestapo chief on 27 September 1939.
Heinrich Himmler	Upon the resignation of SS commander Erhard Heiden in 1929, Himmler assumed the position of Reichsführer-SS with Hitler's approval ; he still carried out his duties at propaganda headquarters.
Hans-Erich Voss	As a result of this meeting, Goebbels arranged to have Voss appointed Naval Liaison Officer to Hitler's headquarters in March 1943.
Michael Oenning	Von Heesen and Oenning were working together until 28 August 2008, when Von Heesen got sacked and Oenning replaced him.
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin	Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, who lived to be 90, was the last surviving member of the 20 July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler.
Erich Bauer	In 1933, Erich Bauer joined the NSDAP and SA while working as a tram conductor.
Albert Speer	In 1937, Hitler appointed Speer as General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital with the rank of undersecretary of state in the Reich government.
Fritz Reinhardt	On 6 April 1933, after Hitler's intervention, Reinhardt became State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance under Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk succeeding Arthur Zarden, whose incumbency violated Nazi policy, as he was Jewish.
Werner Goldberg	After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Mr. Goldberg lost his position under the Nazi law of April 1933, Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which expelled Jews from the German Civil Service.
Franz Seldte	In August 1933, he was awarded the rank of SA - Obergruppenführer and later was appointed Reichskommissar for the Freiwilliger Arbeitsdienst employment program, but was soon superseded by his state secretary Konstantin Hierl as leader of the Reichsarbeitsdienst organization.
Louis W. Tordella	After the war Tordella stayed on with the Navy, and in 1949 joined the newly created Armed Forces Security Agency (AFSA), an early attempt to achieve service unity in the business of cryptology.
Alfred Fischer (SS officer)	Alfred Fischer's nomination, according to a file card, was received by the Heerespersonalamt (HPA -- Army Staff Office) on 11 January 1945.
Constantin von Dietze	After moving to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1936 to replace Karl Diehl at the University of Freiburg, von Dietze became increasingly involved in the Confessing Church's opposition to the Nazis.
Konstantin von Neurath	He continued to hold that position under Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and then under Adolf Hitler from the Machtergreifung on 30 January 1933.
Carl Jung	In 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany, Jung took part in restructuring of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy (Allgemeine Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie), a German-based professional body with an international membership.
Helmut Knochen	During the plot to assassinate Hitler of July 20, 1944, together with the top security man in Paris, SS General Karl Oberg, he was arrested by Army troops under the command of Paris military governor, Colonel General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel.
Philipp Bouhler	Deputy Führer -LSB- -LSB- Rudolf Hess, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Bouhler, Dr Fritz Todt, RSHA chief Reinhard Heydrich attend a meeting with Erich Ehrlinger, an SS Einsatzkommando in March 1941. -RSB- -RSB-
Ernst Gehrcke	In 1953, he became the director of the optical department of the Deutsches Amt für Maß und Gewicht (DAMG, German Office for Weights and Measures) in East Berlin, the East German equivalent to the West German Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Federal Physical and Technical Institute).
Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche	Nevertheless, Porsche soon obtained contracts from important German automotive firms, such as Wanderer, Auto Union, Zwickau, Zündapp and, starting in 1933, the new German National Socialist regime.
Herbert Kappler	In January 1936, he was promoted to the rank of SS - Scharführer (sergeant) and assigned to duty at the Gestapo main office of Stuttgart (Stapoleitstelle Stuttgart).
Eugene Feenberg	Adolf Hitler had been appointed Chancellor in January 1933 and Feenberg was in Leipzig in the spring of that year.
Otto Strasser	His party proved unable to counter Hitler's rise to power in 1933, and Strasser spent the years of the Third Reich in exile.
Sep Ruf	He attended the Interbau 1957 in Berlin - Hansaviertel and was one of the three architects who had the top secret order to create the governmental buildings in the new capital city of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn.
Wilhelm Miklas	After Chancellor Schuschnigg on 12 February 1938 had been summoned to the Berghof by Adolf Hitler to receive German demands, Miklas offered amnesty to jailed Nazi members, but initially refused to turn over the national police force to their leader Arthur Seyss-Inquart.
Josef Leopold	Heinrich Himmler made him leader of the Austrian Schutzstaffel in 1937 but he soon grew tired of the quarrelsome Leopold, who also had clashes with Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Franz von Papen and his co-leader of the Austrian Nazis Hermann Neubacher.
Franz Breithaupt	Breithaupt was murdered by gunshot by his aide SS - Untersturmführer (2nd lieutenant) Karl Lang in Bach on 29 April 1945.
Werner Grothmann	At the suggestion of Joachim Peiper, Grothmann was appointed second assistant to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler until July 1942, when he was promoted to aide-de-camp to the leader of the SS.
Philipp Bouhler	In 1934, Bouhler became police chairman of Munich, and only a month later, he was appointed chief of Adolf Hitler's Chancellery, a post specially created on 17 November 1934 that was first and foremost set aside for party business.
Heinrich Himmler	Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and other SS officials visiting -LSB- -LSB- Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941 -RSB- -RSB- Under Himmler's leadership, the SS developed its own military branch, the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), which later evolved into the Waffen-SS.
Otto Kanturek	After the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, he left Germany for Vienna and Prague, where he directed the film Das Häuschen in Grinzing.
Rudolf Wolters	Speer had forged a close relationship with Hitler, and in late 1936, Speer informed Wolters that the dictator would soon appoint Speer as Generalbauinspektor (GBI) or General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital, and suggested that Wolters resign his post with the railway and come work for him again.
David Stone (military historian)	Frequently serving alongside or with German troops in NATO appointments, he was awarded the Bundeswehr Abzeichen für Leistungen im Truppendienst in Gold in 1987.
Emil Barth	He was one of six members of the Council of the People's Deputies (Rat der Volksbeauftragten) created on 10 November 1918 in Berlin to govern Germany after Kaiser Wilhelm II had abdicated and the Republic had been proclaimed by Karl Liebknecht and Philipp Scheidemann.
Hans Carste	Like so many, Hans Carste joined the Nazi Party in 1933.
Wilhelm Decker	From 1931, at the Voluntary Labour Service, Nazi leaders appointed him as'' Inspector for Education and Training'' in the Reich leadership.
Alois Windisch	A full Colonel in the Austrian General Staff since 1936 (promotion 24 June 1936) and senior tactics teacher, Windisch was well known for his refusal of the Nazi movement.
Karl Fiehler	On 2 August 1935 a memorable conversation took place between Adolf Hitler and Karl Fiehler in the course of which Munich got a strange new epithet :'' Hauptstadt der Bewegung'' ().
August von Mackensen	In 1891, he joined the General Staff in Berlin, where he was heavily influenced by the new chief, Alfred von Schlieffen.
Jakob Edelstein	On 4 December 1941, by order of the head of the'' Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague'' SS-Sturmbannführer (major) Hans Günther, Edelstein and his family were deported to Theresienstadt.
Glenn Beck	In the wake of the 2011 Norway attacks, Beck received condemnation for his comparison of murdered and surviving members of the Norwegian Workers' Youth League to the Hitler Youth.
Prince Paul of Thurn and Taxis	After Richard Wagner was forced to leave Munich on 10 December 1865, Prince Paul of Taxis served as a discreet messenger and intermediary between Ludwig and Wagner.
Hendrik Seyffardt	After internal opposition within the Dutch leadership, on 5 July 1941 Hitler officially approved the establishment of a Dutch volunteer SS group, and after being approached unofficially Seyffardt was officially appointed head of the Legion on 8 July by Reichskommissar Arthur Seyss-Inquart.
Gerhard Klopfer	When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he joined the Nazi Party and the SA (Sturmabteilung) along with the Gestapo (Secret State Police) the following year.
Dietrich von Hildebrand	von Hildebrand was a vocal opponent of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, fleeing from Germany, first to Italy, and then to Vienna, Austria, in 1933 upon Hitler's rise to power.
Ludwig von Mises	Mises was chief economist for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and was an economic adviser of Engelbert Dollfuss, the austrofascist but strongly anti-Nazi Austrian Chancellor, and later to Otto von Habsburg, the Christian democratic politician and claimant to the throne of Austria (which had been legally abolished in 1918).
Richard von Mises	With the rise of the National Socialist (Nazi) party to power in 1933, von Mises, felt his position threatened despite his World War I military service.
Karl Ernst Jarcke	In 1832 Metternich called him to the State Chancery in Vienna to succeed the late Friedrich von Gentz.
Christoph Meinel	In 2006, he hosted together with Hasso Plattner the first German `` National IT-Summit'' of the German Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel.
Julius Fromm	In 1938, however, under Nazi rule, the government forced Fromm to sell his factories for 116,000 Reichsmark, a fraction of their real value, to Baroness Elisabeth von Epenstein, Hermann Göring's godmother.
Hubert Klausner	Klausner was appointed acting Nazi Gauleiter in January 1933 and four months later, in May 1933, he took over as Gauleiter the leadership of the still-outlawed Nazi Party in Carinthia.
Gareth Jones (journalist)	In late January and early February 1933 Jones was in Germany covering the accession to power of the Nazi Party, and was in Leipzig on the day Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor.
Willi Baumeister	On the 31st of March 1933, following the National Socialist rise to power, Baumeister was dismissed from his professorship at the Städel.
Albert von Maybach	At the behest of Otto von Bismarck, in 1874 Maybach was appointed as head of the Imperial Railway Office (Reichseisenbahnamt).
Kurt Meyer	Meyer joined the NSDAP on 1 September 1930, three years before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
Joachim von Willisen	In 1938 he was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Economics and was conscripted to the Wehrmacht Infantry Regiment 9 in Potsdam in World War II, where he met future participants of the 20 July plot.
Egon Kisch	He was briefly imprisoned in 1916 for publishing reports from the front that criticised the Austrian military's conduct of the war, but nonetheless later served in the army's press quarters along with fellow writers Franz Werfel and Robert Musil.
Kurt Gerstein	In early 1941 he joined the SS.
Magda Goebbels	In late April 1945, the Soviet Red Army entered Berlin, and the Goebbels family moved into the Vorbunker, that was connected to the lower Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery gardens.
Anton Schnack	He was one of the 88 writers who pledged their allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1933 in a Vow of Most Faithful Allegiance (Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft).
Robert Albert Bauer	After the assassination of Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by the Nazis in 1934, Bauer became convinced that the only way to fight the Nazis was within the framework of the Vaterlandische Front, the only political organization allowed in Austria at that time.
Walther von Reichenau	In 1938, after the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair, in which General Werner von Fritsch was forced out of the Army command, Reichenau was Hitler's first choice to succeed him, but older leaders such as Gerd von Rundstedt and Ludwig Beck refused to serve under Reichenau, and Hitler backed down.
Peter Huchel	After the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Huchel came under attack from the East German authorities and the following year he was forced to resign the editorshop of Sinn und Form.
Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord	Two of his sons, Ludwig and Kunrat, took part in a failed plot to kill Hitler and replace the Nazi regime with a new government on 20 July 1944, fleeing Germany in its aftermath.
Franz Langoth	Although the Nazi Party was banned in Austria after the attempted putsch of 1934 Kurt Schuschnigg allowed Langoth's group to be active due to his high standing.
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz	After 1942, Duckwitz worked with the Nazi Reich representative Werner Best, who organized the Gestapo (German secret police).
Georg Hansen	On the day of the arraignment, 10 August 1944, Georg Hansen, as well as Erich Fellgiebel, Alfred Kranzfelder, Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg and Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg were, in a show trial at the Court of the People (Volksgerichtshof) under President Roland Freisler, sentenced to death.
Otto Rasch	He joined the SA in 1933 and the SS on 10 March 1933 ; with membership number 107,100.
Alfred Kranzfelder	He was arrested shortly after Berthold von Stauffenburg on 24 July 1944 and tried by the People's Court on 10 August 1944 with Erich Fellgiebel, Georg Hansen, Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg and Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.
Hans Langsdorff	Following the rise to power of the Nazis, Langsdorff requested duty at sea in 1934, but was instead appointed to the Interior Ministry.
Hjalmar Schacht	In 1923, Schacht applied and was rejected for the position of head of the Reichsbank, largely as a result of his dismissal from von Lumm's service.
Konrad Henlein	After the German takeover of what remained of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Heinlein served one month as head of the civil administration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, nominally making him the number-two man in the Protectorate behind Reichsprotektor Konstantin von Neurath.
Theodor Lohmann	After Bismarck's departure from his position as German chancellor in 1890 Lohmann was re-assigned by the new Minister of Trade, Hans Hermann of Berlepsch, to further extend the German worker legislation.
Hans Adolf Krebs	Krebs joined the German army in 1932, and was appointed to the 13th Mechanized Infantry Division ; until the Nazi party came to power in Germany, Jews were welcome in the German army.
Sepp Janko	After the invasion of the Wehrmacht early in 1941, the Cultural Association was disbanded and VoMi organised the Deutsche Volksgruppe in Serbien und Banat (DVSB) under Janko's leadership.
Heinrich Held	In July 1924, after the resignation of Eugen Ritter von Knilling, Held became prime minister of Bavaria.
Gustav Ritter von Kahr	So on November 8, 1923, Hitler and the SA stormed a public meeting of 3,000 people that had been organized by Kahr in the Bürgerbräukeller, a large beer hall in Munich.
Karl Rasche	Though Rasche joined the Nazi in May 1933, his membership was not considered valid, as no membership card was issued or any membership fees paid.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann	In 1945, he became a Dramaturg at the Bavarian State Opera and there, as one of the few internationally-recognized figures who had survived untainted by any collaboration with the Nazi regime, he became a vital figure in the rebuilding of (West) German musical life.
Josef Spacil	From 1934 SS Sturmbannführer Josef Spacil was used on the staff of the Reichsführer-SS.
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler	During the Blomberg -- Fritsch Affair and the attendant crisis caused by the court-martial of General Werner von Fritsch, Goerdeler became closely associated with several loose groupings of German rightists in the Civil Service and the military who, for various reasons, were unhappy with aspects of the Third Reich.
Josef Fitzthum	In March 1938 he was involved in several high profile meetings and public ceremonies with Heinrich Himmler, Kurt Daluege, Karl Wolff, Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Kaltenbrunner reviewing Austria n police forces in Vienna.
Walther Hewel	Until Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945, Hewel remained in his inner circle.
Eduardo Chillida	thumb | Chillida's sculpture'' Berlin'' (2000) for the Office of the Federal Chancellor (Bundeskanzleramt) in Berlin.
Heinrich Himmler	Himmler and Hitler met for the last time on 20 April 1945 -- Hitler's birthday -- in Berlin, and Himmler swore total loyalty to Hitler.
Simon Wiesenthal	Shortly after Bruno Kreisky was inaugurated as Austrian chancellor in April 1970, Wiesenthal pointed out to the press that four of his new cabinet appointees had been members of the Nazi Party.
Karl-Heinrich Brenner	In February 1943 he returned to Berlin as commander of the Central office of Ordnungspolizei and then commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Salzburg, as the Chief of anti-partisan operations under Higher SS and Police Leader Alpenland which was one of the most powerful postings in Nazi Germany.
Wilhelm Decker	As of 1934, Decker published the Nazi magazine'' Volk an der Arbeit'', whose content was so well liked by the Nazi leadership that it earned him an appointment as General Labour Leader in the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service).
Werner Haase	In June 1945 he was charged with being'' a personal doctor of the former Reichschancellor of Germany, Hitler, and also treated other leaders of Hitler's government and of the Nazi Party and members of Hitler's SS guard''.
Wilhelm II, German Emperor	Following the dismissal of Hohenlohe in 1900, Wilhelm appointed the man whom he regarded as'' his own Bismarck'', Bernhard von Bülow.
Reinhold Wulle	Wulle entered political life in the spring of 1920 when he joined fellow rightists Arnold Ruge and Richard Kunze in creating the Deutschvölkischen Arbeitsring Berlin as a successor to the Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund.
Folke Bernadotte	In the spring of 1945, Bernadotte was in Germany when he met Heinrich Himmler, who was briefly appointed commander of an entire German army following the assassination attempt on Hitler the year before.
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia	In 1939, Prince Paul, as acting head of state, accepted an official invitation from Adolf Hitler and spent 9 days in Berlin.
Joachim Peiper	In 1934, during the annual Nuremberg Rally, Peiper was promoted to SS - Sturmmann and later gained the attention of Heinrich Himmler.
Erwin Friedrich Baumann	In 1918 Baumann joined the architectural office of Rudolf Gaberel in Davos, where he maintained friendships with Jakob Bosshart, Wilhelm Schwerzmann and the expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Konstantin von Neurath	In March 1939, Neurath was appointed Reichsprotektor of occupied Bohemia and Moravia, serving as Hitler's personal representative in the protectorate.
Vidkun Quisling	Quisling became entangled in a similar debacle in early 1944 when he forced compulsory military service on elements of the Hird, causing a number of members to resign to avoid being drafted.