Background
Walter Frank was born in Fürth, Bavaria, on 12 February 1905.
Walter Frank was born in Fürth, Bavaria, on 12 February 1905.
Frank studied at the University of Munich under Professor Alexander von Müller, the pro-Nazi President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and graduated in 1927 with a dissertation on the nineteenth-century German anti-semitic agitator, Adolf Stoecker.
An old Party member, Frank became increasingly prominent under the Third Reich in organizing and integrating anti-Jewish scholarship in Germany. on 1 April 1936 he was appointed President of the newly founded Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des Neuen Deutschlands (Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany), which gave him the pivotal position from which to influence German historiography in the Nazi spirit.
In the spring of 1936 the Forschungsabteilung Judenfrage (Research Department for the Jewish Question) was created within the Reichsinstitut, and Frank, who was its Director, thus defined its purpose: ‘In German politics, Israel’s kingdom terminated in the spring of 1933. In German scholarship, however, Israel through its governors reigned longer. . . . We don't want dictatorship but we want the leadership in the scientific life of our nation. . . . In this process of an army-formation the Reichsinstitut ... is the first army corps. . . .’ Frank himself edited the nine-volume Forschungen zur Judenfrage (1937^44), which was perhaps the most notorious product of his Institute.
However, by the spring of 1941 his influence began to decline with the flight of his protector Rudolf Hess to England and the establishment of a rival anti-Jewish institute sponsored by Alfred Rosenberg who rapidly outdistanced him.
Frank committed suicide on 9 May 1945 at Gross Brunsrode, near Braunschweig.
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