German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890–1960)
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Walther Funk
Funk in 1943
Reichsminister of Economics
In office 5 February 1938 – 2 May 1945
President
Adolf Hitler (Führer) Karl Dönitz
Chancellor
Adolf Hitler Joseph Goebbels
Preceded by
Hermann Göring
Succeeded by
Position abolished
President of the Reichsbank
In office 19 January 1939 – 8 May 1945
Preceded by
Hjalmar Schacht
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Reich Press Chief and State Secretary in the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
In office 13 March 1933 – 26 November 1937
Appointed by
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Otto Dietrich
Personal details
Born
(1890-08-18)18 August 1890 Danzkehmen, East Prussia, German Empire
Died
31 May 1960(1960-05-31) (aged 69) Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Political party
Nazi Party
Spouse
Luise Schmidt-Sieben
Profession
Economist
Criminal conviction
Criminal status
Deceased
Conviction(s)
Crimes of aggression War crimes Crimes against humanity
Trial
Nuremberg trials
Criminal penalty
Life imprisonment
Walther Funk (18 August 1890 – 31 May 1960) was a German economist and Nazi official who served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs (1938–1945) and president of Reichsbank (1939–1945). During his incumbency, he oversaw the mobilization of the German economy for rearmament and arrangement of forced labor in concentration camps.[1] After the war he was tried and convicted as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Sentenced to life in prison, he remained incarcerated until he was released on health grounds in 1957. He died three years later.
^William L. Shirer. (1960). "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". Simon and Schuster. New York. p. 491
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Minister of State and Head of the Presidential Chancellery. February 1938: WaltherFunk succeeds Göring as Reich Minister of Economics. February 1938: Joachim...
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the same accounts. Its creation was authorized by Reichsbank president WaltherFunk in a secret arrangement with Schutzstaffel leader Heinrich Himmler. Along...
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Deutschen Polizei): Gauleiter Karl Hanke Minister of Economy (Wirtschaft): WaltherFunk Minister of Agriculture (Landwirtschaft): Herbert Backe Minister of Justice...
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his life in Spandau Prison. His fellow inmates Konstantin von Neurath, WaltherFunk, and Erich Raeder were released because of poor health in the 1950s;...
Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht, and economic planners Albert Speer and WaltherFunk, along with Speer's subordinate and head of the forced labor program...
As Minister of Economics, WaltherFunk accelerated the pace of rearmament and as Reichsbank president banked for the Schutzstaffel the gold rings of Buchenwald...
Karl Hanke 30 April 1945 8 May 1945 NSDAP Reich Minister of Economics WaltherFunk 5 February 1938 2 May 1945 NSDAP Minister for Food and Agriculture...
Economy) from 21 May 1935 till his resignation on 26 November 1937; WaltherFunk, Generalbevollmächtigter für die Wirtschaft (General Plenipotentiary...
Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher—were given the death penalty. Three—WaltherFunk, Rudolf Hess, Erich Raeder—received life terms; and the remaining four—Karl...
stones and metals such as platinum (25 sealed boxes) – were dispatched by WaltherFunk to be buried on the Klausenhof Mountain at Einsiedl in Bavaria, where...
alone. Nazi Germany under economics minister Hjalmar Schacht, and later WaltherFunk, still pursued major international trade, albeit under a different system...
and building enterprises" through these offices. Pohl also worked with WaltherFunk, Reich Minister of Economics (German: Reichswirtschaftsminister), to...
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and Propaganda In office 26 November 1937 – 30 March 1945 Preceded by WaltherFunk Succeeded by Position abolished Personal details Born Jacob Otto Dietrich...
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