Paul von Hindenburg (1933–1934) Adolf Hitler (1934–1943; as Führer)
Chancellor
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Franz Bracht
Succeeded by
Heinrich Himmler
General Plenipotentiary for Administration of the Reich
In office 4 September 1938[1] – 20 August 1943
Appointed by
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Heinrich Himmler[2]
Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
In office 24 August 1943 – 8 May 1945
Appointed by
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Konstantin von Neurath (de jure) Kurt Daluege (de facto)
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Reichsminister without Portfolio
In office 24 August 1943 – 30 April 1945
Additional positions
1939–1945
Member of the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich
1934—1945
Member of the Prussian State Council
1933—1945
Reichsleiter
1933–1945
Member of the Reichstag (Nazi Germany)
1924—1933
Member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
Personal details
Born
(1877-03-12)12 March 1877 Alsenz, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died
16 October 1946(1946-10-16) (aged 69) Nuremberg Prison, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Political party
Nazi Party
Spouses
Elisabetha Emilie Nagel
(m. 1910; div. 1934)
Margarete Schultze-Naumburg
(m. 1934)
Children
5
Alma mater
University of Munich
University of Göttingen
University of Berlin
University of Heidelberg
Occupation
Attorney
Signature
Criminal conviction
Criminal status
Executed
Conviction(s)
Crimes of aggression War crimes Crimes against humanity
Trial
Nuremberg trials
Criminal penalty
Death
Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a convicted war criminal and prominent German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943[3] and as the last governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
As the head of the Kriminalpolizei (criminal police) in Munich, Frick took part in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, for which he was convicted of high treason. He managed to avoid imprisonment and soon afterwards became a leading figure of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in the Reichstag. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Frick joined the new government and was named Minister of the Interior. Additionally, on 21 May 1935, Frick was named Generalbevollmächtigter für die Reichsverwaltung (General Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich).[4] He was instrumental in formulating laws that consolidated the Nazi regime (Gleichschaltung), as well as laws that defined the Nazi racial policy, most notoriously the Nuremberg Laws. On 30 August 1939, immediately prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Frick was appointed by Hitler to the six-person Council of Ministers for Defense of the Reich which operated as a war cabinet.[5] Following the rise of the SS, Frick gradually lost favour within the party, and in 1943 he was replaced by Heinrich Himmler as interior minister. Frick remained in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio until Hitler's death in 1945.
After World War II, Frick was tried and convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials and executed by hanging.
^Office of United States Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality (1948). Nazi Conspiracy And Aggression: Supplement B. United States Government Printing Office. p. 408.
^Lisciotto, Carmelo (2007). "SS & Other Nazi Leaders". Holocaust Research Project. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
^Claudia Koonz, The Nazi Conscience, p 103, ISBN 0-674-01172-4
^"Nazi Germany - Government Structure". Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^Broszat, Martin (1981). The Hitler State. Longman Inc. pp. 308–309. ISBN 0-582-49200-9.
WilhelmFrick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a convicted war criminal and prominent German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as Minister...
war service and connections, Ludendorff was acquitted. Both Röhm and WilhelmFrick, though found guilty, were released. Göring, meanwhile, had fled after...
minister without portfolio and Minister of the Interior for Prussia, and WilhelmFrick as Reich Interior Minister. Less than a month later, the Reichstag building...
Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, WilhelmFrick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg...
western equivalent of the Generalplan Ost. Stuckart later represented WilhelmFrick, the Interior Minister, at the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942...
August 1943, when he was succeeded by the former Interior Minister WilhelmFrick. On 21 June 1943, Neurath had been raised to the honorary rank of an...
naturalization, in accordance to the 1913 Reich and Nationality Act. WilhelmFrick, the first Nazi minister in a German (local) cabinet and member of the...
after the Reichstag fire. In late 1933, the Reich Interior Minister WilhelmFrick wanted to integrate all the police forces of the German states under...
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and Prussian Ministry of the Interior under Reich Interior Minister WilhelmFrick, where he worked until 1945. In July 1938, Globke received his final...
ministers in the cabinet; initially Hermann Göring (without portfolio) and WilhelmFrick (Interior) were the only Nazi ministers. Further, Alfred Hugenberg,...
Police). As such he was nominally subordinate to Interior Minister WilhelmFrick, but in practice Himmler answered only to Hitler. Himmler immediately...
Aftermath[permanent dead link]. Westview Press, 2008. Adolf Hitler; WilhelmFrick; Franz Gürtner; Rudolf Hess (15 September 1935). "Nuremberg Law for...
was one of the few members of the Third Reich's cabinet (along with WilhelmFrick and Franz Seldte) to serve continuously from Hitler's appointment as...
Office. WilhelmFrick, Leader of the NSDAP parliamentary bloc in the Reichstag. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Propaganda Leader of the NSDAP. Wilhelm Grimm, Chairman...
and notaries. As the law was first drafted by the Interior Minister WilhelmFrick, all those of "non-Aryan descent" were to be fired immediately at the...
industrial production Germany had ever seen. Third Reich Interior Minister WilhelmFrick, one of the most influential Nazi figures of the time, and Hjalmar Schacht...
also officially a deputy Reich Protector. 20 August 1943–5 May 1945: WilhelmFrick, former Minister of the Interior (1933–1943) and Minister without Portfolio...
Anton Drexler Hermann Esser Karl Fiehler Josef Fitzthum Hans Frank WilhelmFrick Albert Ganzenmüller Ernst Girzick Hermann Göring Ulrich Graf Jakob Grimminger...
Abolition of the Reichsrat, which was drafted by Reich Interior Minister WilhelmFrick who also served as the presiding officer of the Reichsrat. Law on the...
judgement". Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2009-12-16. "Frick judgement". Archived from the original on 2011-08-11. Retrieved 2009-12-16...
office. The Nazi Party gained three posts: Hitler was named chancellor, WilhelmFrick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring Minister of the Interior...
rumours were spread by Heydrich's enemies of his alleged Jewish ancestry. Wilhelm Canaris said he had obtained copies of documents proving Heydrich's Jewish...
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