Only two NSDAP party members joined the cabinet that formed immediately after Hitler took the oath of office: Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946) was named Reich Interior Minister, and Hermann Göring (1893-1946) was named Reich Minister without Portfolio and acting Prussian Minister of the Interior. Franz von Papen (1879-1969), who enjoyed close ties to other cabinet members and to President Hindenburg, fully believed that he would be able to control Hitler from his post as Vice-Chancellor. Sitting (left to right): Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Franz von Papen. Standing (left to right): Franz Seldte, Günther Gereke, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Wilhelm Frick, Werner von Blomberg, Alfred Hugenberg.