Walter Funk Nürnberg
November 12, 1945
CERTIFICATE
1. Member of the NSDAP: June 31—45
2. Member of the Reichstag: Summer 32—Spring 33
3. Chief of Press for the Reich Government (in the Reich Chancellery) 30.1.33—Nov. 37
4. State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda March 33—Nov. 37
5. Reich Minister of Economics Nov. 37—45
6. President of the Reich Bank Jan. 39—45
7. Member of the Ministerial Council for Defense of the Reich 30. Aug. 39—45
8. Plenipotentiary of Economics 28. Aug. 39—45
(Since Dec. 39 only activities limited to Reich Ministry of Economics and the Reich Bank)
Nürnberg, November 14, 1945
Signed: Walter Funk Signed: Dr. Sauter
List of Funk's official positions, including membership in the Nazi party and Reichstag, and offices in the chancellery, propaganda ministry, ministry of economics, and Reichsbank (1931-45%
Authors
Walther Funk (Reich Minister of Economics; Reichsbank; Central Planning Board)
Walter Funk
German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890-1960)
- Born: 1890-08-18 (Yasnaya Polyana)
- Died: 1960-05-31 (Düsseldorf)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: banker; economist; journalist; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Position held: director (of: Bank for International Settlements, Reichsbank); member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
- Employer: Bank for International Settlements; Reichsbank
Fritz Sauter (Dr.; defense attorney)
Fritz Sauter
Attorney; represented defendants at the Nuremberg Trials
- Born: 1886-01-01
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: lawyer
- Member of political party: Nazi Party (period: 1933-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
- Participant in: Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: criminal defense lawyer)
- Significant person: Kurt Blome (role: client, criminal defense lawyer); Siegfried Ruff (role: client, criminal defense lawyer)
- Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Residence: Munich; Nuremberg
Date: 14 November 1945
Literal Title: Certificate
Defendant: Walther Funk
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2977
HLSL Item No.: 452819
Notes:This copy of PS 2977 was apparently not entered in the presentation against Funk in January 1946.