Karl-Otto Saur (16 February 1902 – 28 July 1966) was a high ranking official in the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany and was named as Reichsminister of Munitions in Adolf Hitler’s will.
Following Todt's death in a 1942 plane crash, Saur became the Head of the Technical Department and reported directly to the new armaments minister Albert Speer.
[4] In all these positions, Saur was seen as particularly ruthless in the enforcement of military targets, and was involved in all aspects of increasing production, including orders that regulated the flow of slave labour.
In his political testament of 29 April 1945, Adolf Hitler named Saur as the new Reichsminister of Munitions in place of Speer.
[5] However, the new Reich President, Karl Dönitz, ignored this directive and kept Speer on as Reichsminister of Industry and Production in the Flensburg government.