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Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi Party during the 1920s and 1930s, and later became Hitler's personal lawyer. After Hitler's ascension to power in 1933, Frank became Nazi Germany's chief jurist and Governor-General of occupied Poland's "General Government" territory. During his tenure throughout World War II (1939–45), he instituted a reign of terror against the civilian population〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum )〕 and became directly involved in the mass murder of Polish citizens. At the Nuremberg trials, he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was executed. ==Early years== Frank, the middle child of three, was born in Karlsruhe to Karl Frank, a lawyer, and his wife, Magdalena (née Buchmaier), a daughter of a prosperous baker. He graduated from high school at the renowned Maximilians gymnasium in Munich, and right after, at seventeen, joined the German army fighting in World War I, barely reaching front line combat though. After the war, in 1919 and 1920, he was a member of the Thule völkisch society. He served also in the ''Freikorps'' under Franz Ritter von Epp's command, taking part in the crackdown of the Münchner Räterepublik. In 1919, as other members of the Thule society, he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP) at its very beginning.〔Frank's cross-examination during the Nuremberg trial in: 〕 Although the DAP evolved quite soon into NSDAP (the Nazi party), Frank joined the Nazi movement only in September 1923 when he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), and in October by signing up for the Nazi party itself. In November of the same year Frank partook in the Beer Hall Putsch, the failed coup attempt that should have paraphrased the Mussolini's March on Rome. In the aftermath of the putsch Frank fled to Austria returning in Munich only in 1924 when the pending legal proceedings were stayed.〔 Frank studied law (he passed the final state examination in 1926) and rose to become Adolf Hitler's personal legal adviser. As the Nazis rose to power, Frank also served as the party's lawyer. He represented it in over 2,400 cases and spent over $10,000. This sometimes brought him into conflict with other lawyers. Once, a former teacher, appealed to him: "I beg you to leave these people alone! No good will come of it! Political movements that begin in the criminal courts will end in the criminal courts!"〔Evans, Richard J. (2004). ''The Coming of the Third Reich''. Penguin Press, p. 179. ISBN 978-1-59420-004-5.〕 In September–October 1930, Frank served as the defence lawyer at the court-martial in Leipzig of Lieutenants Richard Scheringer, Hans Friedrich Wendt and Hanns Ludin, three ''Reichswehr'' officers charged with membership in the NSDAP.〔Wheeler-Bennett, John (1967). ''The Nemesis of Power'', London: Macmillan, p. 216-20.〕 The trial was a media sensation. Hitler himself testified and the defence successfully put the Weimar Republic itself on trial. Many Army officers developed a sympathetic view of the National Socialist movement as a consequence.〔 Frank was elected to the Reichstag in 1930, and in 1933 he was made Minister of Justice for Bavaria. From 1933, he was also the head of the National Socialist Jurists Association and President of the Academy of German Law. Frank objected to extrajudicial killings as it weakened the power of the legal system (of which he himself was a prominent member), both at the Dachau concentration camp and during the Night of the Long Knives. Frank's view of what the judicial process required should not be exaggerated: From 1934, Frank was Reich Minister Without Portfolio. On April 7, 1938, Frank addressed some 10,000 National Socialists at the Passau ''Nibelungenhalle''.〔Anna Rosmus ''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 145.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Frank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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