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Hans Frank
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Governor-General of Occupied Poland
In office
26 October 1939 – January 1945
Preceded by Ignacy Mościcki (President of Poland)
Succeeded by Provisional government
Personal details
Born (1900-05-23)May 23, 1900
Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany
Died October 16, 1946(1946-10-16) (aged 46)
Nuremberg, Germany
Nationality German
Political party National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
Spouse(s) Brigitte Herbst (married 1925)

Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German lawyer. He worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s. Later he became a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany. He was prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials for his role in the Holocaust. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed on 16 October 1946.

Defendants at the IMT Nuremberg Trials

Bormann · Dönitz · Frank · Frick · Fritzsche · Funk · Göring · Hess · Jodl · Kaltenbrunner · Keitel · v.Neurath · v.Papen · Raeder · v.Ribbentrop · Rosenberg · Sauckel · Schacht · v.Schirach · Seyß-Inquart · Speer · Streicher

Key: Sentenced to death · Imprisoned · Acquitted
Coat of arms of Nazi Germany The Hitler Cabinet
(30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945)
Franz von Papen (ind) • Konstantin von Neurath • Joachim von Ribbentrop • Wilhelm Frick • Heinrich Himmler • Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (ind) • Alfred Hugenberg (DNVP) • Kurt Schmitt • Hjalmar Schacht (ind) • Hermann Göring • Walther Funk • Franz Seldte • Franz Gürtner (DNVP) • Franz Schlegelberger • Otto Georg Thierack • Werner von Blomberg (ind) • Wilhelm Keitel (ind) • Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (ind) • Julius Dorpmüller • Wilhelm Ohnesorge • Richard Walther Darré • Herbert Backe • Joseph Goebbels • Bernhard Rust • Fritz Todt • Albert Speer • Alfred Rosenberg • Hanns Kerrl • Hermann Muhs • Otto Meißner (ind) • Arthur Seyß-Inquart • Hans Frank • Hans Lammers • Martin Bormann • Karl Hermann Frank • Rudolf Hess • Ernst Röhm
All personnel were or became NSDAP members except where indicated ("ind" = nominally independent)

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