Hermann Gring gave command of the Gestapo to a founding member of the Nazi Party of Germany.
OKW operations chief Alfred Jodl was present for Hitler's rant, and notified Gring's chief of staff, Karl Koller, at a meeting a few hours later
 On 30 August 1939, immediately prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Hitler appointed Gring as the chairman of a new six-person Council of Ministers for Defense of the Reich which was set up to operate as a war cabinet

