Editing Ministries Trial (section)

== Defendants ==
{| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Name
!align=center|Photo
!align="left"|Function
!align="left"|Verdict and sentence
|-
|valign="top"|[[Ernst von Weizsäcker]]
|[[Image:Ernst Heinrich von Weizsäcker.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Permanent [[Secretary of State]] in the ''[[Auswärtiges Amt]]'' (Foreign Ministry) under [[Joachim Ribbentrop|Ribbentrop]] until 1943, then [[ambassador]] to the [[Holy See]]; [[SS]]-''[[Brigadeführer]]''.
|valign="top"|7 years for counts 1 and 5; count 1 overturned and reduced to 5 years on 12 December 1949; commuted to time served and released in October 1950; died in 1951
|-
|valign="top"|[[Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland|Gustav&nbsp;Adolf&nbsp;Steengracht von&nbsp;Moyland]]
|[[Image:Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland.JPG|60px]]
|valign="top"|Successor of von Weizsäcker as Secretary of State in the Foreign Ministry (until 1945).
|valign="top"|7 years for counts 3 and 5; count 3 overturned and reduced to 5 years on 12 December 1949; released in January 1950; died in 1969
|-
|valign="top"|[[Wilhelm Keppler]]
|[[Image:Wilhelm Keppler.JPG|60px]]
|valign="top"|Secretary of State; [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s advisor for economy.
|valign="top"|10 years for counts 1, 5, 6, and 8; commuted to time served and released in February 1951
|-
|valign="top"|[[Ernst Wilhelm Bohle]]
|[[Image:Ernst Wilhelm Bohle.JPG|60px]]
|valign="top"|[[NSDAP|NS]]-''[[Gauleiter]]'', Secretary of State in the Foreign Ministry; head of the ''Auslandorganisation'' (foreign organization) of the NSDAP.
|valign="top"|5 years for count 8; released in December 1949; died in 1960
|-
|valign="top"|[[Ernst Woermann]]
|[[Image:Ernst Woermann.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Secretary in the Foreign Ministry; head of the political division. [[German Ambassador to China]], [[Wang Jingwei regime]].
|valign="top"|7 years for counts 1 and 5; count 1 overturned and reduced to 5 years on 12 December 1949; released in January 1950; died in 1979
|-
|valign="top"|[[Karl Ritter (diplomat)|Karl Ritter]]
|[[Image:Karl Ritter, defendant in Ministries Trial.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Liaison between Foreign Office and the [[OKW|High Command]] of the German armed forces.
|valign="top"|4 years for count 3; released after the judgment; died in 1968
|-
|valign="top"|[[Otto von Erdmannsdorff]]
|
|valign="top"|Secretary in the Foreign Ministry; deputy to Woermann.
|valign="top"|Acquitted; died in 1978
|-
|valign="top"|[[Edmund Veesenmayer]]
|[[Image:Edmund Veesenmayer.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Plenipotentiary in Hungary. 
|valign="top"|20 years for counts 5, 7, and 8; commuted to 10 years in January 1951; released in December 1951; died in 1977
|-
|valign="top"|[[Hans Heinrich Lammers]]
|[[image:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H28193, Hans Heinrich Lammers.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Head of the ''Reich'' Chancellery. Indicted on all counts.
|valign="top"|20 years for counts 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8; commuted to 10 years in January 1951; released in December 1951; died in 1962
|-
|valign="top"|[[Wilhelm Stuckart]]
|[[File:Wilhelm Stuckart at the Ministries Trial.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Secretary of State in the Interior Ministry.
|valign="top"|Time served (3 years and 10 months) for counts 5, 6, and 8. Died in a car crash in 1953.{{ref|1|1}}
|-
|valign="top"|[[Richard Walther Darré]]
|[[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 119-2179, Walter Richard Darré.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Minister for Food and Agriculture.
|valign="top"|7 years for counts 5, 6, and 8; released in August 1950; died in 1953
|-
|valign="top"|[[Otto Meissner]]
|[[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-09313, Otto Meißner.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Head of the Presidential Chancellery.
|valign="top"|Acquitted; died in 1953
|-
|valign="top"|[[Otto Dietrich]]
|[[Image:Dietrich, Otto - Obergruppenführer mugshot.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Reich Press Chief of the [[NSDAP]] and Secretary of State in the ''[[Propagandaministerium]]''.
|valign="top"|7 years for counts 5 and 8; released in 1950; died in 1952
|-
|valign="top"|[[Gottlob Berger]]
|[[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S73321, Gottlob Berger.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Head of the ''SS-Hauptamt'', SS-''[[Obergruppenführer]]''.
|valign="top"|25 years imprisonment for counts 3, 5, 7, and 8; commuted to 10 years in January 1951; released in December 1951
|-
|valign="top"|[[Walter Schellenberg]]
|[[Image:Walter Schellenberg.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Second-in-command of the [[Gestapo]], head of the [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]] and the ''[[Abwehr]]'', and successor of [[Wilhelm Canaris]] as the head of the Combined Secret Services; SS-''Brigadeführer''.
|valign="top"|6 years for counts 5 and 8; released in December 1950; died in 1952
|-
|valign="top"|[[Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk]]
|[[Image:Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk.JPG|60px]]
|valign="top"|Minister of Finance, de facto [[Chancellor of Germany]], officially titled "Leading Minister", in May 1945 after the death of [[Joseph Goebbels]].
|valign="top"|10 years for counts 5 and 6; commuted to time served and released in February 1951
|-
|valign="top"|[[Emil Puhl]]
|[[Image:Emil Puhl.jpg|60px]]
|valign="top"|Vice-president of the ''[[Reichsbank]]''..
|valign="top"|5 years for count 5; released in December 1949; died in 1962
|-
| valign="top" |[[Paul Körner (Nazi official)|Paul Körner]]
|[[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1993-086-12, Paul Körner.jpg|60px]]
| valign="top" |Secretary of State and deputy to [[Hermann Göring|Göring]] in the [[Four Year Plan]]; SS-''Obergruppenführer''. 
| valign="top" |15 years for counts 1, 6, 7, and 8; commuted to 10 years in January 1951; released in December 1951; died in 1957
|-
| valign="top" |[[Paul Pleiger]]
|[[Image:Paul Pleiger - DPLA - bbf2f051e7daa2b8bdcd24012fab3302.jpg|60px]]
| valign="top" |Head of the [[Reichswerke Hermann Göring]] (confiscated steel plants employing slave laborers).
| valign="top" |15 years for counts 6 and 7; commuted to 10 years in January 1951; released in December 1951
|-
| valign="top" |{{Interlanguage link multi|Hans Kehrl|de}}
|[[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1998-0525-500, Hans Kehrl.jpg|60px]]
| valign="top" |Secretary in the Ministry of Armament; head of the planning office.
| valign="top" |15 years for counts 5-8; commuted to time served and released in February 1951
|-
| valign="top" |[[Karl Rasche]]
|[[Image:Karl Rasche.jpg|60px]]
| valign="top" |Director of the [[Dresdner Bank]].
| valign="top" |7 years for counts 6 and 8; released in August 1950; died in 1951
|}

{{note|1|1}} Stuckart was tried again in 1950 before a [[denazification]] court and sentenced as a ''[[Mitläufer]]'' (follower) a fine of [[Deutsche Mark|DM]] 50,000.

[[Herbert Backe]], the former minister for agriculture who should also have been tried, committed suicide on 6 April 1947 while in custody awaiting the trial.