Schwerin von Krosigk cabinet
The Cabinet of Schwerin Krosigk formed after the suicide of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels and the fall of Berlin an internationally recognized not -executive Reich government.
Karl Doenitz had, as laid down in the Political Testament of Adolf Hitler, but assumed the office of President as Donitz government without any legal basis, on 1 May 1945. The following day, he commissioned the previous finance minister Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk as Chief Minister to form a government.
The Cabinet had on May 3, 1945 its headquarters in Flensburg. It was about the surrender of the Wehrmacht out in the special area Mürwik to the arrest of the members of the Cabinet on 23 May 1945 in office, however, had virtually no meaning. On June 5, 1945, the Allies took over by the Allied Control Council formally the supreme authority in Germany, so that the term of office of Schwerin von Krosigk ended.