Walther Funk

German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890-1960)

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Walther Funk (1890–1960) was a German journalist, banker, economist, and politician. Born in Yasnaya Polyana, he was educated at Leipzig University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He worked in Berlin and served as a director for the Reichsbank and the Bank for International Settlements. A member of the Nazi Party, Funk received the Golden Party Badge. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and detained at Spandau Prison.

Funk participated in the International Military Tribunal. He was an author with works including *Wirtschaftsordnung im neuen Europa*, *The economic future of Europe*, and *Grundsätze der deutschen Aussenhandelspolitik und das Problem der internationalen Verschuldung*. He died in Düsseldorf.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1890
Died: 1960
Works: 2

Top works

Wirtschaftsordnung im neuen Europa
The economic future of Europe
Grundsätze der deutschen Aussenhandelspolitik und das Problem der internationalen Verschuldung

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1971-06-15

funkhip hop

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1
Total plays: 1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Ecological responses to recent climate change
· 2002 · cited 7,924x
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,660x
The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes
· 2015 · cited 5,323x
2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
· 2017 · cited 4,835x
Estimating the Number of Clusters in a Data Set Via the Gap Statistic
· 2001 · cited 4,756x

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Quotes

“At that time I believed in the Führer principle because to me it meant that the best one should be the leader. If the leader is good and responsible, then the government is good.”
“Ach! I know. If I were to play the Pathetique or the Moonlight Sonata for the high judges, they would let me off. But my defense unfortunately will not be musical.”
“But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.”
“I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.”
“I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.”
“I am guilty of one thing - that I should have cleared out and not had anything to do with these criminals in the first place. Later it was too late. I was in up to my neck. But as for the atrocities, I had not a thing to do with them, did not know about them. And as for conspiring against peace, that is false, too. And that is my plain line of defense.”

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Key facts

President: Adolf Hitler ( Führer ) , Karl Dönitz
Chancellor: Adolf Hitler , Joseph Goebbels
Preceded by: Hermann Göring
Succeeded by: Albert Speer (as Minister of Industry and Production)
Appointed by: Adolf Hitler
Born: ( 1890-08-18 ) 18 August 1890, Danzkehmen , Prussia
Died: 31 May 1960 (1960-05-31) (aged 69), Düsseldorf , West Germany
Party: Nazi Party
Spouse: Luise Schmidt-Sieben
Education: University of Berlin , University of Leipzig ( LLD )
Profession: Economist
Criminal status: Deceased
Convictions: Crimes of aggression , War crimes , Crimes against humanity
Trial: Nuremberg trials
Criminal penalty: Life imprisonment

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Walther Immanuel Funk (18 August 1890 – 31 May 1960) was a German economist, Nazi official and convicted war criminal who served as Reichsminister for the Economy from 1938 to 1945 and president of the Reichsbank from 1939 to 1945. Funk oversaw the mobilization of the economy for Germany's rearmament and World War II, and the expropriation of assets of victims from Nazi concentration camps. He was convicted for crimes against humanity by the Nuremberg Tribunal.

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