Wilhelm Stuckart

Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart (November 16th, 1902 – November 15th, 1953) was official Nazi party; lawyer, he was Secretary of State to the Ministry for the German Interior.

W. Stuckart was born with Wiesbaden. It joined the Nazi party in 1922 where it was implied very early in the standpoint of the Nazis towards the Juif S, in particular as joint editor of the laws anti-semites of Nuremberg of 1935.

It also represented Wilhelm Frick, Minister of Interior Department, at the time of the Conférence of Wannsee on January 20th, 1942, where was formalized the implementation of the “Final solution of the Jewish question in the German sphere of influence in Europe”.

The meticulous examination of the minutes of the conference let suppose that Stuckart would have raised objections as for the fact that the S would transgress the laws previously mentioned by implementing the final solution . It would have also underlined the administrative difficulties of such a radical program; insisting on the fact that an obligatory sterilization would have constituted an option more preserving the spirit of the laws of Nuremberg.

However, the Secretary of the Conference, the S Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, informed Stuckart that the decision to exterminate the Jews had been made by Adolf Hitler and that in agreement with the Führerprinzip , this decision was above the laws. It is interesting to note that Stuckart and several other participants of the conference noticed that Hitler had not given this written order, in accordance with the use for the particularly secret or problematic instructions.

Stuckart was briefly used as Minister of Interior Department after the fall of Heinrich Himmler in 1945.

After the war, Stuckart was stopped by the Alliés for War crimes, was considered and condemned at the time of the Procès of the ministries. He was condemned to a custodial sentence covered by his preventive imprisonment and was released in April 1949.

In spite of his heavy implication in the policies the most fatal Nazis, her lawyer could be based on testimonys like those of his assistant Hans Globke, who described it like a “honest Nazi” but also worried by the respect of the laws, seeking to defend the ministry for the interior of the direct political interferences, and moderating the impact of the racist laws on the “half-Jews”.

Stuckart found in November 1953 death close to Hanover, in a road accident. Some suspecté that this accident had been caused by people “driving out” the war criminals Nazis in freedom.

Its character is represented in works general public:

in the film Wannseekonferenz (1984), its role is played by Peter Fitz;
in the film Conspiracy (BBC/HBO 2001), its role is played by Colin Firth;
in the novel uchronic, Fatherland , of Robert Harris, Stuckart is one of the participants of the conference of Wannsee pursued by the Nazi regime of the years 1960.

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