Wilhelm Stuckart
| Wilhelm Stuckart | |
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Wilhelm Stuckart at the Ministries Trial, 1948
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| Reich Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 6 May 1945 – 23 May 1945 |
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| President | Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz |
| Chancellor | Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (Acting Chancellor) |
| Preceded by | Paul Giesler |
| Succeeded by |
U.S. Military Governor Gen. Lucius D. Clay, 1946–49 U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy, 1949–52 (After German Division in 1949) FRG-West Germany Gustav Heinemann 1949–50, DDR-East Germany Karl Steinhoff, 1949–52 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 November 1902 Wiesbaden, German Empire |
| Died | 15 November 1953 (aged 50) Hannover, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) |
| Alma mater |
University of Munich University of Frankfurt am Main |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Wilhelm Stuckart (16 November 1902 – 15 November 1953) was a Nazi Party lawyer, official and a state secretary in the German Interior Ministry. For actions taken in these capacities, Dr Stuckart was convicted as a war criminal.
Stuckart was born in Wiesbaden, the son of a railway employee. He had a Christian upbringing. Stuckart was active in the far right early on, and joined the Freikorps von Epp in 1919 to resist the French occupation of the Ruhr. In 1922 he started studying law and political economy at the universities of Munich and Frankfurt am Main, and joined the Nazi Party in December that year; he remained a member until the party was banned after the failed putsch of 1923. In order to support his parents, Stuckart had to abandon his studies temporarily and work in the Nassau Regional Bank in Frankfurt in 1924. He finished his studies in 1928, receiving a doctorate with a thesis entitled Erklärung an die Öffentlichkeit, insbesondere die Anmeldung zum Handelsregister ("Explanations to the Public, Especially Concerning the Enrollment to the Trade Register"); he passed the bar examination in 1930.
From 1930 Stuckart served as a district court judge. It was during this period he renewed his association with the NSDAP and provided party comrades with legal counseling. He, however, did not rejoin the party immediately, as judges were prohibited from being politically active. To circumvent this restriction, Stuckart's mother joined the party for him, as member number 378,144. From 1932 to 1933 he worked as a lawyer and legal secretary for the SA in Stettin, Pomerania. Stuckart was a member of the SA from 1932 onward, and after the recommendation of Himmler, joined the SS on 16 December 1933 (member number 280,042), eventually reaching the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer in 1944.
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