Life

Hans's franc in Karlsruhe as a son of the lawyer Karl franc and its Mrs. Magdalena (geb. Buchmaier) were born. It had two brothers and sisters, Karl junior and Elizabeth. Franc served starting from 1917 in the army. After end of the First World War it attached the free corps and joined themselves and in Munich of the Thulegesellschaft, 1927 to 1919 of the German labour party became it party member of the NSDAP. On 9 November 1923 it at the march of Hitler and its trailer were to field-gentleman-resound as a SA-Mann involved. 1924 it had the public legal entity with the topic "“- a contribution for the theory of the characteristic of the public legal person"” attains a doctorate. It studied law and existed 1926 the legal state examination, on which he became in Munich as an attorney actively and legal adviser of Adolf Hitler. On 2 April 1925 franc married the shorthand-typist and secretary in the Bavarian federal state parliament, originating from forest (Lausitz), Brigitte autumn, who was five years older than he. From the marriage five children followed: 1927 Sigrid, 1928 Norman, 1935 Brigitte, 1937 Michael and 1939 Niklas. Besides Brigitte franc had at least one abortion, since she feared by right, the child from one their loving to have received. Franc became director/conductor of the right-wing political department in the realm line of the NSDAP (as such 1933 realm leaders). 1928 it created the National Socialist German lawyer federation, whatever it led. 1930 he was selected to the delegate of Reichstag, and after the seizure of power of the national socialists 1933 it became the Minister of Justice von Bayern and in the course of synchronising the lawyers realm law commissioner ("“realm commissioner for synchronising the law and for the renewal of the legal order"”) until 1934. Besides it was from 1933 to 1942 a president of the academy for German right. Franc expressed itself against killings without formal legal basis, both in the concentration camp Dachau and during the excesses after the murder of the SA leader Ernst in June 1934 ("“night of the long measurers"”). Since December 1934 he was a realm Minister without division. Private one oscillated to franc between the service mansions in Berlin and Munich and its herrschaftlichen property yard in the Bavarian new house at the Schliersee, the "“Schoberhof"”. There its wife and the children lived most time.

On 15 September 1939 franc was assigned as a "“administrative boss of the entire civilian administration of the occupied formerly Polish areas"” to the general Gerd of Rundstedt. After the division of Poland franc had not annektiert on 26 October of 1939 directors/conductors of the Generalgouvernements, which covered those areas of Poland, those the German Reich (about 90,000 km 170,000 km which were conquered). Franc received the rank of a SA upper group leader. After franc had been assigned to the family first Warsaw locks as residence, it referred the royal castle on 7 November 1939 in Krakau, the Wawel. This became the scene of rushing celebrations and opulenter Diners, in addition, the splendor craze of the family of the governor general. Within a short time art treasures and antique furniture from Polish locks, churches and museums were gathered and presented proudly on the Wawel. Both Hans and Brigitte franc had a strong slope to self-manifestation and representation. When Brigitte franc brought in ever more frequently into the Jewish Ghettos and the Jews zusammengepferchten there to ridiculous prices removed furs and jewels, there was soon annoyance from Berlin.

Franc supervised the briefing of the Polish Jews in Ghettos and the obligation of Polish forced laborers. 1942 it lost its position of power in Germany, after it Hitler with a set of speeches in Berlin, Vienna, Heidelberg and Munich had annoyed, in addition, in the course of a struggle for power with Friedrich William the undersecretary of state for safety questions, who led the SS and the police in Poland. Finally was replaced by William Koppe. Franc stated later, the mass murder at the Jews had been steered exclusively by the realm leader SS, Heinrich Himmler, and its troops, and it, franc, experienced only in the spring 1944 of the extermination camps. Since it and its raffgierige wife, that up-played themselves gladly as the "“queen of Poland"”, in the Generalgouvernement shameless enriched themselves and also also in the war limited food supplied their families in forest and Bavaria, they got soon annoyance from Berlin. Besides the Franks well-known for their splendor craze and their collecting passion were for precious art articles, which zusammenrafften her generally speaking country. Among prominent Nazis there was therefore the usual saying "“in the west is appropriate for France and in the east becomes franc richly"”. During its time as a governor general franc submitted fourteen resignations at Hitler. It fled with its Gefolgschaft on 17 January 1945 from Poland.

After 1945

Franc became to 4. May 1945 in close proximity to Berchtesgaden by US troops imprisoned taken and before the international military tribunal in Nuremberg accused. During the process it converted to the catholicism. Franc had handed out to the prosecutors over forty volumes of its diaries, and it was present plentifully load material against it. In the course of the procedure well-known it itself guiltily. He was condemned because of war crimes and crimes against the humanity on 1 October 1946 to death and hung on 16 October 1946. His Mrs. Brigitte was arrested like the other wives of the main war criminals in May 1947 and brought in the work and internment camp with Augsburg, where she developed a close friendship to Ilse Hess. In spring 1948 it became again to dismiss and welcomed its children with the utterance: "“Children, that was the best vacation, which I had ever"”. It died to 9. March 1959 in Munich. Two of the franc children live this very day.

Works

• German right, (magazine) starting from 1931
• Yearbook of the academy for German right, starting from 1934
• Writings of the academy for German right, starting from 1934
• Magazine of the academy for German right, starting from 1934
• National Socialist manual for right and legislation, Munich 1935
• In the face of the Galgens. Interpretation of Hitler and its time due to own experiences and realizations. Written in the law prison, 2. Edition, franc, new house b. Schliersee 1955
• German policy in Poland. 1939-1945. From the service diary of Hans's franc, governor general in Poland. Hrsg. of Imanuel Geiss and Wolfgang Jacobmeyer. Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1980, ISBN 3-8100-0296-8

Literature

• Niklas franc: The father. An account. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-570-02352-4
• Niklas franc: My German nut/mother. C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-570-00689-1
• Martyn Housden: Hans's franc. Habitat and the Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills/New York 2003, ISBN 1-4039-1579-2
• Christian Schudnagies: Hans's franc. Ascent and case of the LV lawyer and governor general. Long, Frankfurt/Main among other things. 1988, ISBN 3-631-40622-3

Related links

• Short bio of the German historical museum
• Franc article of the editorship of the historical portal shoa.de
• http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/hans%20frank_de.html

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