Josef Bühler
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Josef Bühler (middle) in May 1941
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16 February 1904 Bad Waldsee, German Empire |
| Died | 22 August 1948 (aged 44) Kraków, Poland |
| Cause of death | Execution |
| Occupation | Nazi legal officer |
| Criminal penalty | Death by hanging |
| Conviction(s) | Crimes against humanity. |
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Governor General Hans Frank's Representative To The Wannsee Conference |
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In office 20 January 1942 – 6 March 1942 (Conference Held Two Meetings) |
Josef Bühler (also referred to as Joseph Buehler) (16 February 1904 – 22 August 1948) was a state secretary and deputy governor to the Nazi-controlled General Government in Kraków during World War II.
Bühler was born in Bad Waldsee into a Catholic family of 12 children, his father being 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. He was also elected as a member of the Weimar and Nazi Reichstags.
Hans Frank was appointed Minister of Justice for Bavaria in 1933. Bühler became a member of NSDAP on 1 April 1933, according to his own testimony at the Nuremberg Trials, and was appointed administrator of the Court of Munich. In 1935 he became district chief attorney.
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.
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