Fritz Sauckel
| Fritz Sauckel | |
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Sauckel at the Nuremberg trials
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| Acting Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Anhalt | |
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In office 1933–1937 |
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| Prime Minister | Alfred Freyberg Rudolf Jordan |
| Preceded by | Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper |
| Succeeded by | Rudolf Jordan |
| Acting Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Brunswick | |
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In office 1935–1945 |
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| Prime Minister | Dietrich Klagges |
| Preceded by | Wilhelm Loeper |
| Succeeded by | Rudolf Jordan |
| Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia | |
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In office 1933–1945 |
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| Prime Minister | Himself Willy Marschler |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Minister President of Thuringia | |
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In office 1932–1933 |
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| Preceded by | Erwin Baum |
| Succeeded by | Willy Marschler |
| Gauleiter of Thuringia | |
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In office 1927–1945 |
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| Leader | Adolf Hitler |
| Preceded by | Artur Dinter |
| Succeeded by | None |
| General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment | |
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In office 21 March 1942 – May 1945 |
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| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Personal details | |
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27 October 1894 Haßfurt, then Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire |
| Died | 16 October 1946 (aged 51) Nuremberg, Germany |
| Political party | NSDAP |
| Spouse(s) | Elisabeth Wetzel (m. 1924) |
| Children | 10 |
| Profession | Sailor, factory laborer |
Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from 1942 until the end of the Second World War.
Sauckel was among the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to death by hanging.
He was born in Haßfurt (Kingdom of Bavaria), the only child of a postman and a seamstress. Sauckel was educated at local schools and left early when his mother fell ill. He joined the merchant marine of Norway and Sweden when he was 15, first on a Norwegian three-masted schooner, and later on Swedish and German vessels. He went on to sail throughout the world, rising to the rank of Vollmatrose (able seaman). At the outbreak of World War I, he was on a German vessel en route to Australia when the vessel was captured. He was subsequently interned in France from August 1914 until November 1919.
He returned to Germany, found factory work in Schweinfurt, and studied engineering in Ilmenau from 1922 to 1923. He joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in 1923 (member 1,395). In 1924 he married Elisabeth Wetzel, with whom he had ten children. He remained a party member over its dissolution and publicly rejoined in 1925. Sauckel was appointed party Gauleiter of Thüringia in 1927 and became a member of the regional government in 1929. Following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933, he was promoted to Reich Regent of Thüringia and Reichstag member. He was also given an honorary rank of Obergruppenführer in the SA in 1937.
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