Josef Terboven – Reichskommissar of occupied Norway from 1940 to 1945 Otto Georg Thierack – Jurist and Reich Minister of Justice from 1942 to 1945 Fritz Todt – civil engineer, Director of the Head Office for Engineering, General Commissioner for the Regulation of the Construction Industry, and founder and head of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash in February 1942. He was (posthumously) the first recipient of the German Order.