Funk, Walther

Funk, Walther

▪ German economist
born Aug. 18, 1890, Trakehnen, East Prussia, Ger.
died May 31, 1960, Düsseldorf, W.Ger.

      German Nazi and economist who was economics minister of the Third Reich from 1938 and president of the Reichsbank from 1939.

      Funk attended universities at Berlin and Leipzig before joining the German Army at the outbreak of World War I. He was discharged in 1916 as being unfit for service. Having started in newspaper work in 1912, he became editor of the leading German financial and economic daily, the Berliner Boersen Zeitung, in 1922. Shortly thereafter he joined the Nazis and in 1931 was called to Hitler's personal staff as economic adviser; in this post he acted as a middleman between Hitler and the German industrialists.

      Funk was appointed economics minister in 1938 but operated under the supervision of Hermann Göring, who was plenipotentiary general of the four-year plan; on Jan. 20, 1939, Funk replaced Hjalmar Schacht as president of the Reichsbank. Funk participated in the economic planning for the attack on the Soviet Union and was active in the Nazi program of discrimination against Jews. Taken prisoner by U.S. troops in May 1945, he was indicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg (Nürnberg trials), Aug. 29, 1945.

      In his defense he described himself as a little man “who was frequently allowed up to the door but not in.” Göring himself told the court that Funk was an “insignificant” subordinate. The court, nevertheless, found him guilty of crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and on October 1 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released from prison on May 16, 1957.

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