Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946)
In the course of his active participation in the Nazi conspiracy, Frick occupied a number of important positions. Among his Nazi Party positions are the following: member of the Nazi Party from 1925 to 1945; Reich Leader of the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945; floor leader of the Nazi Party in the Reichstag from 1928 to 1945. His governmental positions were: chief of a division of the Munich Police Department from 1917 to 10 November 1923, 2 days after Hitler's Putsch; Nazi Minister of the I Interior and of Education in the German State of Thuringia from January 1930 to April 1931; Reichsminister of the Interior from 30 January 1933 to 20 August 1943; member of the Reich Defense Council as General Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich from 21 May 1935 to 20 August 1943. On 20 August 1943, Frick was appointed Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and he held this last position until 1945. (2978-PS)
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Wilhelm Frick was born in Alsenz, Germany, the son of a teacher. He was educated in Munich and studied jurisprudence at Heidelberg, graduating in 1901. He joined the Bavarian civil service in 1903, working as a lawyer at the police headquarters in Munich. He was made a Bezirksamtassessor in 1907 and rose to the position of Regierungsassessor by 1917.
He joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) and took part in the Beer Hall Putsch at which time he was director of the Munich kriminalpolizei. Along with Adolf Hitler was found guilty and was imprisoned for his role in the attempted putsch.In April 1924 he was given a suspended sentence of 15 months imprisonment and was dismissed from his police job.
In 1924 Frick was elected to the Reichstag where he associated with the NSDAP radicals led by Gregor Strasser, he was Fraktionsfuhrer for the NSDAP from 1927. He became the first Nazi to hold high office when he was appointed as Minister of the Interior in the state of Thuringia in 1930.
When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 he appointed Frick as his Minister of the Interior and was responsible for operating the Enabling Act. He also drafted the Nuremberg Laws, that began the persecution of the Jews in Germany.
To maintain the Nazi regime in the first 2 years of its existence and to achieve some of its most important immediate purposes, Frick signed 235 laws and decrees during that period, most of which are published in the Reichsgesetzblatt.
For the first time in German history a uniform police system for the whole German Reich was created. Frick was its creator and its supreme head. He appointed the Gestapo chief, Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the German Police. Frick was the highest controlling authority over concentration camps. He personally inspected these camps. His Ministry of the Interior made the necessary legal arrangements for acquiring land for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Through his Medical Division, Frick controlled the Nazi asylums and so-called medical institutions in which forced sterilizations and murders of thousands of Germans and of foreign laborers were carried out. The racial legislation, including the Nurnberg Laws, was drafted by Frick and administered under his jurisdiction. Frick introduced the Yellow Star as a sign of stigmatization of the Jews.
Frick was involved in a struggle with Heinrich Himmler and the Schutzstaffel (SS) and in 1943 lost his job as Minister of the Interior. Adolf Hitler now appointed him the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, a post he held until the end of the Second World War.
Frick was accused of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. At his trial Frick argued that he had never intended the Nuremberg Laws to be used for mass murder, although he accepted that this is what happened. Wilhelm Frick was found guilty and executed on 1st October, 1946.
The journalist, Howard K. Smith, observed the execution of Wilhelm Frick and nine other leaders of the Nazi Party on 1st October 1946.
The sixth man to leave his prison cell and walk with handcuffed wrists to the death house was 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick. He entered the execution chamber at 2.05 a.m., six minutes after Rosenberg had been pronounced dead. He seemed the least steady of any so far and stumbled on the thirteenth step of the gallows. His only words were, "Long live eternal Germany," before he was hooded and dropped through the trap.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERfrick.htm
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/Frick.html
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/frickbio/
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick
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I did read some of his vile actions as minister of the interior. Very important post. I don't know why it is not mentioned often. 
