Prussian Minister of Finance and Minister of State
In office 21 April 1933 – 21 July 1944
Prime Minister
Hermann Göring
Preceded by
Himself (as Reichskommissar)
Succeeded by
None
Reichskommissar Prussian Ministry of Finance
In office 29 October 1932 – 21 April 1933
Chancellor
Kurt von Schleicher Franz von Papen Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Franz Schleusener
Succeeded by
Himself (as Minister of Finance)
Reichsminister without Portfolio
In office 29 October 1932 – 30 January 1933
Chancellor
Kurt von Schleicher Franz von Papen
State Secretary Prussian Ministry of Finance
In office 1925 – 21 December 1929
Prime Minister
Otto Braun
Personal details
Born
(1884-12-02)2 December 1884 Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire
Died
2 February 1945(1945-02-02) (aged 60) Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Political party
Nazi Party (from January 1937)
Profession
Lawyer
Johannes Popitz (2 December 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a Prussian lawyer, finance minister and a member of the German Resistance against the government of Nazi Germany. He was the father of Heinrich Popitz, an important German sociologist.
JohannesPopitz (2 December 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a Prussian lawyer, finance minister and a member of the German Resistance against the government...
Popitz was born in Berlin, Germany, on 14 May 1925. He grew up in a bourgeois home, his father being the leading fiscal policy maker JohannesPopitz who...
imprisoned co-conspirators Wilhelm Canaris, Hans Oster, Ulrich von Hassell, JohannesPopitz, Carl Goerdeler, Josef Mueller, and Alexander von Falkenhausen. He...
the eve of World War II, a group including Prussian Finance Minister JohannesPopitz, Planck, and Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht approached General...
oppositionist when, in August 1943, the Prussian Finance Minister JohannesPopitz, who was involved in Goerdeler's network, came to see him and offered...
BRSD Ottilie Pohl (1867–1943), USPD, Rote Hilfe in Berlin-Moabit JohannesPopitz (1884–1945), Hedwig Porschütz (1900–1977), Righteous among the Nations...
Goerdeler, in association with Hans von Dohnanyi, Colonel Hans Oster and JohannesPopitz, became involved in planning a putsch against the Nazi regime should...
series of meetings between Goerdeler, Beck, Ulrich von Hassell and JohannesPopitz produced agreement that when the Nazi regime was overthrown, Beck was...
coup d'état in Germany. He envisaged himself, along with Beck and JohannesPopitz, planning for Germany's post-Hitler internal organization after a successful...
joined the conservative opponents around the Prussian finance minister JohannesPopitz; he also met with Peter Yorck von Wartenburg and Helmuth James Graf...
of close friends which included Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, JohannesPopitz, Ludwig Beck, Ulrich von Hassell, Carl-Hans Graf von Hardenberg and...
Executed (Hanging) 1945 Kurt von Plettenberg Landowner Suicide 1945 JohannesPopitz Minister of Finance of Prussia Executed (Hanging) 1945 Erwin Rommel...
"senior group" were General Beck, Goerdeler, Ulrich von Hassell and JohannesPopitz and for the Kreisau Circle Moltke, Trott, Yorck von Wartenburg, Eugen...
Reich Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, Prussian Finance Minister JohannesPopitz, and Chief of the Organisation for Germans Abroad, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle...
Hans Oster (1945) Erwin Planck (1945) Kurt von Plettenberg (1945) JohannesPopitz (1945) Friedrich von Rabenau (1945) Adolf Reichwein (1944) Alexis von...
negotiating peace behind Adolf Hitler's back. He introduced him to JohannesPopitz who suggested a coup d'état as the war was lost, but Himmler was not...
with his former superior Ludwig Beck, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and JohannesPopitz, he got to work as early as 1938–1939 on the planning for a military...
Friedrich Goerdeler, German economist and politician (b. 1884) 1945 – JohannesPopitz, German lawyer and politician (b. 1884) 1948 – Thomas W. Lamont, American...
included the diplomat Ulrich von Hassell, the Prussian Finance Minister JohannesPopitz, and Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, heir to a famous name and the leading...
due to the influence of highly placed advocates (Erich Seeberg [de], JohannesPopitz and Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk), in 1943 he was forced, along with...
State Secretary of the Prussian Ministry of Finance under Minister JohannesPopitz. On 31 July 1933, Prussian Minister President Hermann Göring appointed...
plotters, such as Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Ulrich von Hassell and JohannesPopitz. Goerdeler listed Koenigs as a possible transport minister or state...
Subsequently, Kern also came into contact with the Prussian Finance Minister JohannesPopitz and other members the so-called Wednesday Society. At some point Kern's...
who planned to overthrow the NS-regime in the 20 July plot of 1944: JohannesPopitz, Ulrich von Hassell, Jens Jessen and General Ludwig Beck. In 1950 Stroux...
remained an appointed member and died in office in December 1941. JohannesPopitz 1933–1944 Prussian Minister of Finance Dismissed and arrested in connection...
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