Josef Bühler
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Josef Bühler | |
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Executed | |
Conviction(s) | Crimes against humanity |
Trial | Supreme National Tribunal |
Criminal penalty | Death |
Governor General Hans Frank's Representative to the Wannsee Conference | |
In office 20 January 1942 – 6 March 1942 | |
Governor General | Hans Frank |
Personal details | |
Political party | Nazi Party (NSDAP) |
Education | Law |
Occupation | Nazi legal officer |
Josef Bühler (16 February 1904 – 22 August 1948) was a
Background
Bühler was born in Bad Waldsee into a Catholic family. His father was a baker. After obtaining his degree in law, he received an appointment to work under Hans Frank, a legal advisor to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Bühler did not take up membership of the NSDAP until 1 April 1933, shortly after the Nazi rise to power.[1]
Nazi career
Hans Frank was appointed Minister of Justice for
In 1938 Hans Frank, now Reich Minister without portfolio, put him in charge of his cabinet office. After the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in September 1939, Frank was appointed Governor-General for the occupied Polish territories and Bühler accompanied him to Kraków to take up the post of State Secretary of the General Government, also serving as Frank's deputy. He was given the honorary rank of SS-Brigadeführer by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler around this time.
Wannsee Conference and Final Solution
Bühler attended the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942 as the representative from the Governor General's office. During this conference, which discussed the imposition of the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question in the German Sphere of Influence in Europe', Bühler stated to the other conference attendees the importance of solving 'the Jewish Question in the General Government as quickly as possible'.[2]
Trial and execution
After the war, Bühler testified on Frank's behalf at the
In popular media
Bühler's death is the
In the 2001 HBO film Conspiracy, which portrayed the Wannsee Conference, Bühler was played by the British actor Ben Daniels.[citation needed]
Literature
- Internationaler Militärgerichtshof Nürnberg (Hrsg.): Der Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof (14. November 1945 bis 1. Oktober 1946). Amtlicher Text in deutscher Sprache.
- Dr. Josef Buhler, Staatssekretär and Deputy Governor-General. Supreme National Tribunal of Poland (17TH JUNE-10TH JULY, 1948), Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Selected and prepared by The United Nations War Crimes Commission, Volume XIV, London, HMSO. 1948 (englisch). (PDF)
- ISBN 3-447-05063-2.
- Friedman, Towiah: Die höchsten Nazi-Beamten im General-Gouvernement in Polen in den Kriegs-Jahren 1939–45. Inst. of Documentation in Israel for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, Haifa 2002[4]
- Grimm, Hans: Dr. Josef Bühler – Impusgeber bei der Wannsee-Konferenz. In: Wolfgang Praske: Täter Helfer Trittbrettfahrer. Band 4. NS-Belastete aus Oberschwaben. Kugelberg Verlag, Gerstetten 2015, ISBN 978-3-945893-00-5, p. 70–83
References
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Zweite aktualisierte Auflage, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 81.
- ^ Cesarani 2005, p. 114.
- ISBN 0-09187-209-X.)
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- Short biography, House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial Site
- Transcript, Bühler's testimony at the Nuremberg Trials, IMT Proceedings vol. 12, pp. 64–113
- Summary, the trial against Bühler, Law Report, United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949
- Videoclip, Part I, Bühler testifying at the Nuremberg Trials (in German)
- Videoclip, Part II, Bühler testifying at the Nuremberg Trials (in German)
- ISBN 978-0-099-44844-0.