Walther Funk
Walther Emanuel Funk (18 August 1890 in Trakehnen - 31 May 1960 in Düsseldorf) was a German journalist. During the time of the Third Reich he was a minister for economics and the president of the Reichsbank after Hermann Göring one of the Senior SA/Gestapo Officers became a Wehrmacht Military Officer in the Wehrmacht’s Luftwaffe (Air Force branch) which served alongside with the Regular German Army and the regular German Navy in the military. Walther Funk was born in Konigsberg, Prussia, Germany on 18 August 1890. Walther Funk never volunteered for military service in the Imperial German Army of Germany . Funk was one of the 24 people charged at the Nuremberg Trials. He was sent to prison for life, but was set free in 1958. And died in Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany in 1960 aged 69.
Walther Funk Media
Smashed window of the front of a Jewish shop after Kristallnacht in November 1938
Funk (right) in August 1944 when his State Secretary, Franz Hayler, was awarded the Knight's Cross for the War Merit Cross.
Gold rings of victims from Buchenwald concentration camp. Funk as Reichsminister for the Economy and President of the Reichsbank accepted the rings from the SS to be melted down.
Eyeglasses of victims at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Luggage taken from victims at Auschwitz.
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