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Statement of Funk's positions within the NSDAP and government, including the Ministry of Propaganda, Ministry of Economics, Reichsbank, and Central Planning Board (1931-45)
IMT
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: 21 December 1945
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-3533
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 651
Document Book No: Prosecution HH (Funk)
Citation: IMT (page 2573)
HLSL Item No.: 452833
Notes:For positions that Funk did not confirm, see document PS 3563, which contains extracts from German sources on Funk's roles.