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Frick was born in Alsenz , Germany, the son of a teacher. He was educated in Munich and studied jurisprudence at Heidelberg, graduating in 1901. He joined the Bavarian civil service in 1903, working as a lawyer at the police headquarters in Munich. He was made a Bezirksamtassessor in 1907 and rose to the position of Regierungsassessor by 1917. He took part in the Beer Hall Putsch (November 1923), at which time he was director of the Munich kriminalpolizei. He was one of those arrested and imprisoned for the putsch and was tried for treason in April 1924. He was given a suspended sentence of 15 months imprisonment and was dismissed from his police job. He joined the NSDAP in May 1924 and worked for an insurance company.
He was elected to the Reichstag in May 1924 and associated himself with the radical Gregor Strasser, he was Fraktionsfuhrer for the NSDAP from 1927. He was appointed minister of the Interior and of Education for Thuringia in 1930.
When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Frick was appointed Minister of the Interior, one of only three Nazis in the original Hitler Cabinet, and was responsible for drafting many of the laws that set up the Nazi regime. Initially, as Minister of the Interior, he was head of all German police forces, a post he lost in 1936 to Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich Himmler ( October 7, 1900 May 23, 1945) was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. As Reichsfuhrer-SS, he led the Schutzstaffel and Gestapo and was put in charge of organizing the mass extermination of Jews and others in extermination camp. He was Minister without PortfolioA Minister without Portfolio is a government minister with no specific responsibilities. Canada In the Canadian government, there have been a number of Ministers without Portfolio in all except the First Ministry (see: James Cox Aikins). Until September 2 until August 1943 when he lost out in a power struggle with Himmler. He was then appointed to the ceremonial post of Protector of BohemiaBohemia Cechy in Czech, Bohmen in German) is an historical region in central Europe, occupying the western and middle thirds of the Czech Republic. With an area of 52,750 sq. 25 million of the country's 10. 3 million inabitants, Bohemia is bounded by Germ and MoraviaMoravia ( Czech: Morava is the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Its historical capital is Brno. For history see Great Moravia. It is named for the Morava (or March) river around which a group of Slavs settled sometime after 500 AD. The Moravians speak.
He was arrested and tried before the International Military TribunalThe Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. The trials were held in the German city of Nuremberg from 1945 to 1949 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice (the only court in Germany large at Nuremberg, where he was the only defendant who refused to testify on his own behalf. His role as Minister over the Enabling ActThe Enabling Act (in German: Ermachtigungsgesetz was passed by the Reichstag on March 23, 1933. It was the second major step after the Reichstag Fire Decree through which the Nazis legally established Nazi Germany by giving the Chancellor (then Adolf Hitl, the later Nuremberg Laws and as controller of German concentration campA concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the internes led to his conviction for planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to death on October 1, 1946 and was hanged two weeks later. Of his execution, journalist Howard K. Smith, wrote:
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