Hermann Gring gave command of the Gestapo to someone who was born in January of 1900.
 Later in the day, speaking to the Reichstag, Hitler designated Gring as his successor as Fhrer of all Germany, "If anything should befall me", with Hess as the second alternate
Wilhelm Frick, the Reich interior minister, and the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, hoped to create a unified police force for all of Germany, but Gring on 26 April 1933 established a special Prussian police force, with Rudolf Diels at its head

