Walther Funk

Walther Emanuel Funk (August 18, 1890 - May 31, 1960) was a prominent Nazi official. He served as Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945.

Third Reich career

• In March 1933, Funk was appointed as a State Secretary at the Ministry of Propaganda.
• In 1938, he assumed the title of Chief Plenipotentiary for Economics (Wirtschaftsbeauftragter).
• He also became Minister of Economics in February of that year, replacing Hjalmar Schacht who had been dropped in November 1937. Schacht had been dismissed in a power struggle with Reichsmarchall Hermann Göring, who was quick to tie the Ministry more closely to his Four Year Plan Office.
• In January 1939 Funk gained another credit to his name when he assumed the post of President of the Reichsbank, again replacing Schacht.
• He was appointed to the Central Planning Board in September 1943.