Rainer Schlösser

Rainer Schlösser (sometimes anglicized as Schlosser or Schloesser; 28 July 1899 – 9 August 1945) was a German journalist and writer who held (1933–1945) the governmental post of ''Reichsdramaturg'' (Reich Drama Adviser) in the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by Joseph Goebbels and also (from 1935 to 1938) President of the ''Reichstheaterkammer'' or Reich Theatre Chamber, the state governing body for drama. This was an even more important and high-profile position. The equivalent body in the world of music, the ''Reichsmusikkammer'', was headed by the world-famous composer Richard Strauss from 1933 to 1935.

According to Dr. Gerwin Strobl, an academic specialist on the Third Reich and its cultural extensions, in his book ''The Swastika and the Stage: German Theatre and Society, 1933–1945:''

"Future leading figures of Nazi theatre, such as ''Reichsdramaturg'' Rainer Schlösser, or Leader of the Hitler Youth and head of the Vienna theatre, Baldur von Schirach, are characteristic of the able, refined and literate group of men attracted by the promises of the Nazis of restoring German culture."

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