What is Walther Funk?
[[File:Waltherfunk45.jpg|thumb|Walther Funk (1945)]] '''Walther Emanuel Funk''' (18 August 1890 in [[Yasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast|Trakehnen]] - 31 May 1960 in [[Düsseldorf]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[journalist]]. During the time of the [[Third Reich]] he was a [[Minister (government)|minister]] for [[economics]] and the [[president]] of the [[Reichsbank]] after [[Hermann Göring]] one of the Senior [[Sturmabteilung|SA]]/[[Gestapo]] Officers became a [[Wehrmacht]] Military Officer in the Wehrmacht’s [[Luftwaffe]] (Air Force branch) which served alongside with the [[German Army|Regular German Army]] and the regular [[Kriegsmarine|German Navy]] in the military . Walther Funk was born in [[Königsberg|Konigsberg]],[[Prussia]],[[Germany]] on 18 August 1890 . Walther Funk never volunteered for military service in the [[Imperial German Army]] of [[Imperial Germany|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 . {{IMT defendants}} {{Hitler's Cabinet}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Funk, Walther}} [[Category:1890 births]] [[Category:1960 deaths]] [[Category:German bankers]] [[Category:German journalists]] [[Category:German prisoners]] [[Category:German war criminals]] [[Category:Government ministers of Nazi Germany]] [[Category:Holocaust perpetrators]] [[Category:Members of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic)]] [[Category:People from former German territories]] [[Category:Politicians of the Nazi Party]] [[Category:Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment]]