German Leader after WW2

[CommissarGears]

after the Second World War, and of course after Hitlers suicide, who took charge of Germanys government?

Not looking for a debate or a discussion, just a simple question by a curious person.

[ford_prefect]

I do know there was a guy that was the head of Nazi Germany for like a couple of weeks after Hitler killed himselft he was from the Nave (the only branch of the armed forces Hitler trusted fully)

[Hendrik 'DarcReaver' S.]

During the Battle of Berlin Hitler gave the whole defense operation into the hands of General Helmuth Weidling under the condition to not surrender at any cost. However, after Hitlers and Goebbels suicide he surrendered and gave Berlin to the Russian on May 2nd, 1945.

The German Generaloberst Alfred Jodl proposed capitulation of all german forces left and signed the unconditional surrender.

In the phase from 1945 - 48 Germany was controlled by the allied powers - England, France, USA (West) and Soviet Union (East)

In 1948 The Bundesrepublik Deutschland was founded and Konrad Adenauer became the first chancellor.
The East separated from the West and became known as Deutsche Demokratische Republik - DDR.

[Hartkeks]

In his testament Hitler declared Großadmiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsident.
So technically he was head of state of nazi germany. He also was leader of Wehrmacht high command  and he tried to make a seperate peace with the western allies to be able to make an attempt to drive the soviets out of germany.

The allies refused anything but unconditional surrender, so he gave Jodl permission to sign.