Walther Funk

Walther Funk (1945)

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.

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.

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Walther Funk Media

Kristallnacht of November 1938, smashed window front of Jewish shop
Nazi gold in Merkers Salt Mine
As Minister of Economics Funk assisted the pace of rearmament, and subsequently as Reichsbank President accepted from the SS the gold rings of Nazi concentration camp victims from Buchenwald
eyeglasses from Auschwitz victims
luggage taken from Auschwitz victims