Schacht accept the Golden Party Badge and become members of the Nazi Party. Eltz-Rubenach refuses and is forced to resign. February 1937: Wilhelm Ohnesorge succeeds Eltz-Rübenach as Reich Minister of Posts. Julius Dorpmüller succeeds Eltz-Rübenach as Reich Minister of Transport. November 1937: Göring succeeds Schacht as Reich Minister of Economics. Schacht becomes Reich Minister without Portfolio. December 1937: Hans Lammers, Chief of the Reich Chancellery, becomes a Reich Minister without Portfolio. December 1937: Otto Meissner is granted cabinet rank as Minister of State and Head of the Presidential Chancellery. February 1938: Walther Funk succeeds Göring as Reich Minister of Economics. February 1938: Joachim von Ribbentrop replaces Neurath as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Neurath remains a Reich Minister (without portfolio). February 1938: Blomberg resigns as Reich Minister of War and his office is abolished. General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, is granted cabinet rank. February 1938: Walther von Brauchitsch succeeds Fritsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is granted cabinet rank. April 1939: Brauchitsch and Keitel accept the Golden Party Badge. May 1939: Arthur Seyss-Inquart enters the Cabinet as a Reich Minister (without portfolio). March 1940: Fritz Todt enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions. January 1941: Franz Schlegelberger succeeds Gürtner as Acting Reich Minister of Justice. February 1941: Dorpmüller, Reich Minister of Transport, joins the Nazi Party. May 1941: Hess is dismissed from the Cabinet. May 1941: Martin Bormann is granted cabinet rank as the Chief of the Nazi Party Chancellery. July 1941: Alfred Rosenberg enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories. December 1941: Kerrl, the Reich Minister of Church Affairs, dies. Hermann Muhs becomes Acting Reich Minister. December 1941: Brauchitsch resigns as Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Hitler himself takes up the position. February 1942: Albert Speer succeeds Todt as Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions. May 1942: Darré placed on extended leave of absence. Herbert Backe becomes Acting Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture. August 1942: Otto Georg Thierack succeeds Schlegelberger as Reich Minister of Justice. January 1943: Karl Dönitz succeeds Raeder as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and is granted cabinet rank. January 1943: Lammers appointed President of the Reich Cabinet (Cabinet President in Hitler's absence) January 1943: Schacht departs the Cabinet. August 1943: Heinrich Himmler succeeds Frick as Reich Minister of the Interior. Frick remains a Reich Minister (without portfolio). August 1943: Konstantin Hierl enters