1. Hanns Kerrl was President of the Prussian Landtag and head of the Zweckverband Reichsparteitag Nurnberg and in that capacity edited a number of Nuremberg rally yearbooks.
13 Facts About Hanns Kerrl
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Hanns Kerrl served in the German Army in the First World War as a Leutnant earning the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class.
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Hanns Kerrl joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and soon afterwards went into regional politics.
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An associate of Bernhard Rust, the local Gauleiter, in 1928 Hanns Kerrl became the Kreisleiter of Peine District.
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Hanns Kerrl remained in this position until the Landtag was finally dissolved on 14 October 1933, in the wake of the Nazi subordination of the German States to the Reich government.
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Hanns Kerrl was named to the Academy for German Law and sat on its prasidium.
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Hanns Kerrl was elected to the Reichstag for electoral constituency 16, South Hanover-Brunswick, in November 1933.
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On 17 June 1934, Hanns Kerrl entered the national Reich cabinet as a Reichsminister without Portfolio.
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Hanns Kerrl pressured most of the Protestant pastors to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler.
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Hanns Kerrl was the only Minister with an explicit commitment to reach a synthesis between Nazism and Christianity.
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Much to the ire of leading Nazis, Hanns Kerrl maintained that Christianity provided an essential foundation for Nazi ideology and that the two forces had to be reconciled.
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In 1935 Hanns Kerrl scored some initial successes in reconciling the differing parties in the Church Struggle.
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The American diplomat, William Russell wrote in his memoir that Hanns Kerrl frequented "Berlin dives" and bars "until the wee hours of the morning".