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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]
- Luise Schmidt-Sieben
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industry. Walther Funk (1890–1960) was Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank (national bank) in Germany. Funk participated in efforts to drive German Jews from the economy and played a major role in recycling confiscated property, valuables, and financial assets of Holocaust victims into the German war economy. Found guilty on ...
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Walther Funk, 1945. Walther Funk (born August 18, 1890, Trakehnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Yasnaya Polyana, Russia]—died May 31, 1960, Düsseldorf, West Germany) was a German Nazi and economist who was the economics minister of the Third Reich from 1938 and president of the Reichsbank from 1939. Funk attended universities at Berlin and ...
Walter Funk was born into a merchant family in Königsberg, East Prussia. He studied at university in Berlin, covering a number of subjects. In World War I he joined the infantry but was discharged as unfit for service in 1916. Following the war he worked as a journalist and in 1922 he became the editor of the center-right financial newspaper ...
Nuremberg Trial Judgements: Walther Funk. Funk is indicted under all four counts. Funk, who had previously been a financial journalist, joined the Nazi Party in 1931, and shortly thereafter became one of Hitler's personal economic advisers. On 30th January, 1933, Funk was made Press Chief in the Reich Government, and on 11th March, 1933, became ...
May 26, 2015 · The History Learning Site, 26 May 2015. 8 May 2024. Walther Funk was a senior Nazi Party official who served in Adolf Hitler’s cabinet as Minister of Economics. Funk also served as President of the Reichsbank. Walther Funk was born in Trakehnen, East Prussia, on August 18th 1880. It was quickly apparent to his family that he was a very able ...
Walter Funk. Walter Funk was born into a merchant family in Danzkehmen, Kreis Stallupönen, East Prussia. He was the son of Wiesenbaumeister Walther Funk the elder and his wife Sophie (née Urbschat). He studied law, economics, and philosophy at the University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig. In World War I he joined the infantry but ...
