Philipp Bouhler
| Philipp Bouhler | |
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Bouhler as SS-Obergruppenführer in 1936
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| Deputy manager of the NSDAP | |
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In office September 1922 – November 1925 |
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| NSDAP-Business Manager (Geschäftsführer) | |
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In office 1925 – November 1934 |
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| Reichsleiter | |
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In office June 1933 – 8 May 1945 |
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| Chief of NSDAP Censorship in the Reichsleitung | |
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In office October 1936 – 8 May 1945 |
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| Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP | |
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In office 17 November 1934 – 8 May 1945 |
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| Chief of the Aktion T4 program | |
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In office 1939–1941 |
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| SS-Obergruppenführer | |
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In office 30 January 1936 – 8 May 1945 |
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| Personal details | |
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11 September 1899 Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Died | 19 May 1945 (aged 45) Altaussee, Austria |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) |
Philipp Bouhler (11 September 1899 – 19 May 1945) was a senior Nazi Party official who was both a Reichsleiter (National Leader) and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer in the Allgemeine SS who was responsible for the Nazi Aktion T4 euthanasia program that killed more than 70,000 handicapped adults and children in Nazi Germany, as well as co-initiator of Aktion 14f13, also called "Sonderbehandlung" ("special treatment"), that killed 15,000–20,000 concentration camp prisoners.
Bouhler was captured and arrested on 10 May 1945 by American troops. He committed suicide on 19 May 1945 while in the U.S. internment camp at Zell am See in Austria.
Bouhler was born in Munich, to a retired colonel, and spent five years in the Royal Bavarian Cadet Corps. He took part in the First World War and was badly wounded. From 1919 to 1920, he studied philosophy for four semesters and in 1921 became a contributor in the publishing house that put out the newspaper Völkischer Beobachter.
He joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in July 1922 with membership number 12. By autumn 1922 he had become deputy manager of the NSDAP. After the failed Beerhall Putsch in Munich and the subsequent refounding of the party in 1925, he became Reich Secretary of the NSDAP. After the seizure of power in 1933, he became a Reich Leader and Member of the Reichstag for Westphalia. He joined the SS in the rank of Gruppenführer on 20 April 1933 with membership number: 54,932. On 30 January 1936, Bouhler was promoted to the rank of Obergruppenführer.
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