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Nazi Reichsminister of Church Affairs (1887–1941)

Hanns Kerrl (11 December 1887 – 15 December 1941) was a German Nazi politician. His most prominent position, from July 1935, was that of Reichsminister of Church Affairs.

He was also President of the Prussian Landtag (1932–1933) and head of the Zweckverband Reichsparteitag Nürnberg and in that capacity edited a number of Nuremberg rally yearbooks.

Early life

Kerrl was born into a Protestant family in Fallersleben; his father was a headmaster.

He 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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He joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1923 and soon afterwards went into regional politics. A member of the Sturmabteilung, Kerrl would ultimately hold the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer.

Early Nazi career

Joining the Nazi Party in 1923, he founded and led an Ortsgruppe (Local Group) in Peine, a suburb of Hanover.

In the fall of 1925, Kerrl became a member o