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Wilhelm Frick
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Frick at the Nuremberg Trials, 1946
Reich Minister of the Interior
Nazi Germany
In office
30 January 1933 – 20 August 1943
President Paul von Hindenburg (1933–1934)
Adolf Hitler
Führer
(1934–1943)
Chancellor Adolf Hitler
Preceded by Franz Bracht
Succeeded by Heinrich Himmler
Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
In office
24 August 1943 – 4 May 1945
Appointed by Adolf Hitler
Preceded by Konstantin von Neurath (titular)
Kurt Daluege (de facto)
Succeeded by Office abolished
Personal details
Born (1877-03-12)12 March 1877
Alsenz, Bavaria,
German Empire
Died 16 October 1946(1946-10-16) (aged 69)
Nuremberg,
Allied-occupied Germany
Nationality German
Political party Nazi Party (NSDAP)
Spouse(s) Elisabetha Emilie Nagel (married 1910, divorced 1934), Margarete Schultze-Naumburg (married 1934)
Children 5
Alma mater University of Munich
University of Göttingen
University of Berlin
University of Heidelberg
Occupation Attorney

Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 in Alsenz - 16 October 1946 in Nuremberg) was a well-known Nazi official. Between 1933 and 1943, he was a minister of the Third Reich. After the end of World War II, he was executed for war crimes.

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)



Images for kids

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 121-0008, Sudetenland, Besuch Wilhelm Frick

    Frick (2nd from left) with Konrad Henlein on visit in Sudetenland, 1938

  • Nuremberg Trials defendant Wilhelm Frick in his cell 1945

    Frick in his cell, November 1945


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