Wilhelm Frick
1877 – 1946 German Reich Minister of the Interior
Interior minister who drafted the legal framework of Nazi persecution.
- Religion
- Protestant background; a bureaucrat aligned with the regime's subordination of the churches, without personal mysticism.
- Affiliations
- Nazi Party; interior minister; later Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. No occult ties.
Frick authored much of the legislation that stripped Jews of rights, including the Nuremberg Laws and the Enabling Act's machinery. As interior minister he built the centralized police state and later governed the occupied Czech lands. Convicted at Nuremberg, he was hanged in 1946.
Connections
- associate of Adolf Hitler — Provided the legal scaffolding for the dictatorship.
- associate of Reinhard Heydrich — His interior ministry overlapped with the growing SS police power.