# Chief of the Reich Chancellery

The Chief of the Reich Chancellery (German: Chef der Reichskanzlei) was the highest-ranking official of the Reich Chancellery and the principal assistant of the Chancellor of Germany.

## List of officeholders

| No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) | Term of office | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Political party | Cabinet | Ref. |
| No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Political party | Political party | Cabinet | Ref. |
| 1 | | Christoph von Tiedemann [de] (1836–1907) | 21 March 1871 | 20 September 1881 | 10 years, 183 days | | German Reich Party | Bismarck | |
| 2 | | Franz Johannes von Rottenburg [de] (1845–1907) | 14 October 1881 | 19 January 1891 | 9 years, 97 days | | Independent | Bismarck Caprivi | |
| 3 | | Karl Göring (1829–1905) | 1 February 1891 | 31 December 1894 | 3 years, 333 days | | Independent | Caprivi Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst | |
| 4 | | Kurt von Wilmowsky [de] (1850–1941) | 1 January 1895 | 15 August 1901 | 6 years, 226 days | | Independent | Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst Bülow | |
| 5 | | Alfred von Conrad [de] (1852–1914) | 14 August 1901 | 18 September 1904 | 3 years, 35 days | | Independent | Bülow | |
| 6 | | Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell [de] (1855–1931) | 25 September 1904 | 14 July 1909 | 4 years, 292 days | | German Conservative Party | Bülow | |
| 7 | | Arnold Wahnschaffe [de] (1865–1941) | 20 November 1909 | 11 August 1917 | 7 years, 264 days | | Independent | Bethmann Hollweg Michaelis | |
| 8 | | Hans Joachim von Graevenitz [de] (1874–1938) | 11 August 1917 | 9 November 1917 | 90 days | | Independent | Michaelis | |
| 9 | | Wilhelm von Radowitz [de] (1875–1939) | 20 November 1917 | 17 October 1918 | 331 days | | Independent | Hertling | |
| (7) | | Arnold Wahnschaffe [de] (1865–1941) | 18 October 1918 | 9 November 1918 | 22 days | | Independent | Baden | |
| 10 | | Curt Baake [de] (1864–1940) | 13 February 1919 | 3 March 1919 | 18 days | | Social Democratic Party of Germany | Scheidemann | |
| 11 | | Heinrich Albert (1874–1960) | 3 March 1919 | 24 May 1921 | 2 years, 82 days | | Independent | Scheidemann Bauer Müller I Fehrenbach Wirth I | [5][6] [7][8] [9] |
| – | | Arnold Brecht (1884–1977) acting | 24 May 1921 | 3 August 1921 | 71 days | | Independent | Wirth I | |
| 12 | | Heinrich Hemmer [de] (1886–1942) | 3 August 1921 | 22 November 1922 | 1 year, 111 days | | Independent | Wirth I–II | |
| 13 | | Eduard Hamm (1881–1944) | 22 November 1922 | 12 August 1923 | 263 days | | German Democratic Party | Cuno | |
| 14 | | Werner von Rheinbaben (1878–1975) | 13 August 1923 | 17 October 1923 | 65 days | | German People's Party | Stresemann I–II | |
| 15 | | Adolf Kempkes [de] (1871–1931) | 17 October 1923 | 23 November 1923 | 37 days | | German People's Party | Stresemann II | |
| 16 | | Franz Bracht (1877–1933) | 30 November 1923 | 18 December 1924 | 1 year, 18 days | | Independent | Marx I–II | |
| 17 | | Franz Kempner [de] (1879–1945) | 16 January 1925 | 20 July 1926 | 1 year, 185 days | | German People's Party | Luther I–II Marx III | |
| 18 | | Hermann Pünder (1888–1976) | 20 July 1926 | 1 June 1932 | 5 years, 317 days | | Centre Party | Marx III–IV Müller II Brüning I–II | [14][15] [16] |
| 19 | | Erwin Planck (1893–1945) | 1 June 1932 | 30 January 1933 | 243 days | | Independent | Papen Schleicher | |
| 20 | | Hans Lammers (1879–1962) | 30 January 1933 | 24 April 1945 | 12 years, 84 days | | Nazi Party | Hitler | |