Kurt von Schleicher
On 1 June 1932, he was appointed "Reichsminister" for both the Reich Ministry of Transport and the Reich Postal Ministry as a nonpartisan technocrat in Chancellor Franz von Papen's "cabinet of barons." He retained both these portfolios in the cabinets formed by Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher (3 December 1932) and, after the Nazi "Machtergreifung," by Adolf Hitler (30 January 1933). In the cabinet, he fought unsuccessfully for development of the railroads against the government's emphasis on developing an improved highway system, the "Reichsautobahn".