For the German fighter ace, see Hans-Dieter Frank.
Reichsleiter
Hans Frank
Frank in 1939
Governor-General of the General Government
In office 26 October 1939 – 19 January 1945
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Reichsminister without portfolio
In office 19 December 1934 – 30 April 1945
Chancellor
Adolf Hitler
President of the Academy for German Law
In office 2 October 1933 – 20 August 1942
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Otto Georg Thierack
Bavarian Minister of Justice
In office 18 April 1933 – 4 December 1934
Preceded by
Heinrich Spangenberger
Personal details
Born
Hans Michael Frank
(1900-05-23)23 May 1900 Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire
Died
16 October 1946(1946-10-16) (aged 46) Nuremberg Prison, Nuremberg, Allied-occupied Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Political party
Nazi Party
Other political affiliations
German Workers' Party (DAP)
Spouse
Brigitte Herbst
(m. 1925)
Children
5, including Niklas
Alma mater
University of Munich University of Kiel
Profession
Lawyer
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
German Empire
Branch/service
Imperial German Army
Battles/wars
World War I
Criminal conviction
Criminal status
Executed
Conviction(s)
War crimes Crimes against humanity
Trial
Nuremberg trials
Criminal penalty
Death
Details
Span of crimes
8 October 1939 – 19 January 1945
Target(s)
Polish civilians Polish Jews
Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician, war criminal and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War.
Frank was an early member of the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). He took part in the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and later became Adolf Hitler's personal legal adviser as well as the lawyer of the NSDAP. In June 1933, he was named as a Reichsleiter (Reich Leader) of the party. In December 1934, Frank joined the Hitler Cabinet as a Reichsminister without portfolio.
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Frank was appointed Governor-General of the occupied Polish territories. During his tenure, he instituted a reign of terror against the civilian population and became directly involved in the mass murder of Jews.[1] He engaged in the use of forced labour and oversaw four of the extermination camps. Frank remained head of the General Government until its collapse in early 1945. During that time, over 4 million people were murdered under his jurisdiction.
After the war, Frank was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials. He was sentenced to death and executed by hanging in October 1946.
^"Holocaust Encyclopedia: Hans Frank". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician, war criminal and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in German-occupied...
Niklas Frank (born 9 March 1939) is a German author and journalist best known for an intimate and strongly accusatory book about his father, HansFrank, a...
219 "J. FrankHanly Biography". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on 2008-09-27. Retrieved 2008-09-24. J. FrankHanly (1909)....
Rosenberg, HansFrank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart, and Karl Harrer. Author Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke contends that HansFrank and Rudolf...
as "General Government for the Occupied Polish Territories". Governor HansFrank, on Hitler's authority, shortened the name on 31 July 1940 to just Generalgouvernement...
political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: HansFrank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim...
Wilhelm Koppe). All members of the first office: 1. HansFrank - Generalgouverneur Dr. HansFrank was the former president of the German Academy of Law...
through his father". Following the war, Adolf Hitler's former lawyer, HansFrank, claimed that Hitler told him in 1930 that one of his relatives was trying...
and probably has the meaning "one who lives in a hut". Nazi official HansFrank suggested that Alois's mother had been employed as a housekeeper by a...
Schacht succeeds Schmitt as Reich Minister of Economics. December 1934: HansFrank enters the Cabinet as Reich Minister without Portfolio. March 1935: Göring...
reservation in the summer of 1940. In December, the German Governor-General HansFrank stationing in Kraków ordered the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from the city...
Karl Fiehler, Chief of the NSDAP Main Office for Municipal Politics. HansFrank, Chief of the NSDAP Legal Office. Wilhelm Frick, Leader of the NSDAP parliamentary...
2020. Buchheim, Hans (1968). "The SS – Instrument of Domination". In Krausnik, Helmut; Buchheim, Hans; Broszat, Martin; Jacobsen, Hans-Adolf (eds.). Anatomy...
Codification. In 1935 Donnedieu accepted an invitation to Berlin from HansFrank, Hitler's personal lawyer and later Governor-General of occupied Poland...
Ritter von Epp Members include: Ernst Röhm, Rudolf Hess, Eduard Dietl, HansFrank, Gregor Strasser and Otto Strasser. Freikorps Lützow [de] Occupied Munich...
Hans Christian Andersen". Monument Australia. Retrieved 6 February 2024. "Hans Christian Andersen". City of Sydney. Retrieved 6 February 2024. "Hans Christian...
sympathetically by important figures in Nazi Germany, in particular by HansFrank, with whom he remained on good terms. But he soon fell out with chief...
was exacerbated by the Bavarian Minister of Justice, the Nazi lawyer HansFrank, who, in a public speech on 8 March, threatened the Austrian government...
and Józef Cukier from Zakopane. During a visit of Nazi Governor-General HansFrank to Podhale on 7 November 1939 they proposed to establish a separate state...
4–5. Rosenbaum 1998, pp. 21–22. Translated from Frank's memoirs published posthumously: Frank, Hans (1953). Im Angesicht des Galgens. Deutung Hitlers...
Prussian State Council. On the founding of the Academy for German Law by HansFrank in October 1933, Freisler was made a member and the chairman of its Criminal...
("architect of the Holocaust"); as well as Heinrich Müller of the Gestapo, HansFrank (Hitler's lawyer) and Arthur Seyss-Inquart of the Generalgouvernement...
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