Wilhelm Frick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wilhelm Frick

German Nazi official

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1877

Place of Birth: Alsenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1946

Profession: lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), who served as Reich Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. As the head of the Kriminalpolizei (criminal police) in Munich, Frick took part in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, for which he was convicted of high treason.
He managed to avoid imprisonment and soon afterwards became a leading figure of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in the Reichstag.
After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Frick joined the new government and was named Reich Minister of the Interior.
He was instrumental in formulating laws that consolidated the Nazi regime (Gleichschaltung), as well as laws that defined the Nazi racial policy, most notoriously the Nuremberg Laws.
Following the rise of the SS, Frick gradually lost favour within the party, and in 1943 he was replaced by Heinrich Himmler as interior minister.
Frick remained in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio until Hitler's death in 1945. After World War II, Frick was tried and convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and executed by hanging.