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    regime from 1933 until his death in 1941. Gürtner was the son of Franz Gürtner (locomotive engineer) and Marie Gürtner, née Weinzierl. After the graduating...
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    the Reich Ministry of Justice under Justice Minister Franz Gürtner and kept this job until Gürtner's death in 1941. He was also made a member of the Academy...
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    discussion at the "Führer Headquarters" about whom to appoint to replace Franz Gürtner, the Reich Justice Minister, who had died, Goebbels suggested Roland...
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    Kritzinger was encouraged to take the position by Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner. Gürtner had been a member of the DNVP and favored having his trusted colleague...
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    Transport Minister Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, and Justice Minister Franz Gürtner. The cabinet was "presidential" and not "parliamentary", in that it...
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    highest-ranking officials of the Nazi judicial system could not be tried: Franz Gürtner, Minister of Justice, died in 1941; Otto Georg Thierack, Minister of...
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    legal as acts of self-defence by the State." Reich Justice Minister Franz Gürtner, a conservative who had been Bavarian Justice Minister in the years...
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  • Aftermath[permanent dead link‍]. Westview Press, 2008. Adolf Hitler; Wilhelm Frick; Franz Gürtner; Rudolf Hess (15 September 1935). "Nuremberg Law for the Protection...
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    "tragic personality". Some of its now-former members, such as Franz Gürtner and Franz Seldte, stayed in the Hitler cabinet for years afterward and eventually...
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    military career as a captain in the Reichswehr and provided assistance to Franz Ritter von Epp's Freikorps. In 1919, Röhm joined the German Workers' Party...
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  • Preußenschlag, Franz von Papen's dissolution of the Prussian social-democratic government through an emergency decree in 1932. As an adviser to Franz Gürtner from...
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    Anything less (such as kissing and cuddling) was deemed harmless play. Franz Gürtner, the Reich Justice Minister amended Paragraph 175 to address "loopholes"...
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    Ministry of Finance (Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk) Ministry of Justice (Franz Gürtner, Franz Schlegelberger, Otto Georg Thierack) Ministry of the Reichswehr (Werner...
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    Germany by the order of Adolf Hitler and Reich Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner. Each was operated by a full-time executioner carrying out the rising...
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  • the ailing President Hindenburg. 17 June: Reich Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner also becomes Prussian Minister of Justice, uniting positions in a dual...
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    assumed office on 3 December 1932 after he had pressured his predecessor, Franz von Papen, to resign. Most of his cabinet's members were holdovers from...
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    Justice Minister Franz Gürtner protesting that the action was illegal since no law or formal decree from Hitler had authorised it. Gürtner replied, "If you...
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    discussions within the Cabinet about enacting such measures. Justice Minister Franz Gürtner, a member of the Nazis' coalition partner, the German National People's...
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  • Wilhelm of Prussia, Reichsbischof Ludwig Müller, Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner and even then-State Secretary Roland Freisler, she was unable to secure...
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    However, due to protection received from the Bavarian Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner, a Nazi sympathizer who would later serve as minister of justice under...
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    and served as his liaison officer to the Reich Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner. From March 1933 through March 1935, Klemm was employed at the Ministry...
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  • marriage laws via the 1938 divorce-reform law by the Minister of Justice, Franz Gürtner. Within two years, 30,000 divorces were filed, 80% of which were husbands...
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    public criticism and, at the time, no support from Hitler. His superior, Franz Gürtner, opposed it both for reasons of popular support and such problematic...
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    Friedrich Karl Günther – Academic, teaching racial theory and eugenics. Franz Gürtner – Minister of Justice in Bavaria (1922–1932) he became Reich Minister...
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    several of his DNVP colleagues, such as Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner and State Secretary Franz Schlegelberger, Bumke retained his office after the Nazi...
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    killed, going on to ask that Gürtner prosecute those responsible. In October 1940, the Stuttgart public prosecutor wrote to Gürtner say the "rumors of mass...
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  • Hitler (Reich Chancellor), Franz Seldte (Reich Minister of Labour), Dr Kurt Schmitt (Reich Minister of Economics), Dr Franz Gürtner (Reich Minister of Justice)...
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    1932 – 17 June 1934 Preceded by Heinrich Hölscher [de] Succeeded by Franz Gürtner First Deputy President of the Reichstag In office 12 December 1933 –...
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  • master switch. Its first use is credited to Reich Justice Minister Franz Gürtner. It has been variously translated as "coordination", "Nazification of...
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  • event of U.S. entry into the war. Franz Schlegelberger became the German Minister of Justice upon the death of Franz Gürtner. Died: Ioannis Metaxas, 69, Prime...
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