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.
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.
Hjalmar Schacht
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Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank during
Walther Funk
…appointed to a senior post at the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Funk was appointed as economics minister by Adolf Hitler to replace Hjalmar Schacht, as well as a member of the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich and the Central Planning Board. Funk served as economics minister for…
Hjalmar Schacht
Schacht (left) and Albert Vögler in Paris, where they negotiated the Young Plan, 11 February 1929
Schacht in 1931
Schacht (left) at a meeting in the Reichsbank transfer commission, 1934