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The Reichsbank was the central bank of the German Empire from 1876 until the end of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Reichsbank head office at Jägerstraße in Berlin, photographed in 1933
A 100-Goldmark banknote issued by the German Reichsbank in 1908
A 10000 Mark banknote issued by the German Reichsbank in 1922
As Minister of Economics, Walther Funk accelerated the pace of rearmament and, as Reichsbank president, banked the confiscated gold rings of Buchenwald prisoners for the SS
Walther Funk
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Walther Immanuel Funk 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.
Reichsbank
…expenditure, adding: "It is our duty to warn against this assault on the currency." Two weeks later, Hitler fired Schacht and replaced him with Walther Funk, a former journalist and Nazi loyalist. Most of the other Direktorium members resigned. A subsequent law of 15 June 1939 stipulated that the President…
Funk in 1943
Smashed window of the front of a Jewish shop after Kristallnacht in November 1938
Nazi gold in Merkers Salt Mine
Funk (right) in August 1944 when his State Secretary, Franz Hayler, was awarded the Knight's Cross for the War Merit Cross.