NSDAP
Attends the rally & at the end unites with the NSDAP
Role range: 1924-1945
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Wilhelm Frick Biography and Timeline
Follow Wilhelm Frick through 19 dated historical records for Germany.
Wilhelm Frick, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
19Distinct records
1 of 1Page
1925–1946Years on this page
1925
Rally
Attends the rally & at the end unites with the NSDAP
Role range: 1924-1945
1930
Minister of Interior
Appointed Minister of the Interior for Thuringia
Role range: 1919-1933
1933
Cabinet Appointment
Enters Hitler's first cabinet as Reich Interior Minister, giving the Nazis direct influence over internal administration and police policy.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1943
Minister of Interior
Appointed Minister of the Interior
Role range: 1933-1945
Reichstag Fire Decree
Helps implement emergency powers that allow the Nazi Government to suppress communist and socialist organisations.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1943
Enabling Act
Supports the Enabling Act as Interior Minister, giving the cabinet authority to override ordinary constitutional safeguards.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1943
Gleichschaltung
Oversees the first coordination law that reshapes state parliaments according to the Reichstag election result.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1943
Civil Service Law
Introduces the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, removing Jews and political opponents from public posts.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1943
Social Democratic Party
Frick dissolves the Social Democratic Party as "subversive & inimical to the state"
Role range: 1933-1945
Social Democratic Party
Bans the Social Democratic Party, removing the last major organised parliamentary opposition to Nazi rule.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1943
Sterilization Law
Sponsors hereditary health legislation authorising compulsory sterilisation under Nazi racial and eugenic policy.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1943
1934
Night of Long Knives
Hitler instructs Wilhelm Frick to draft a law making the killings legal
Role range: 1933-1945
Night of Long Knives
The Reichstag retrospectively makes the plot both "legal & statesmanlike"
Role range: 1933-1945
1945
Indictment Served at Nuremberg
The International Military Tribunal served the indictment, Charter and notice of rights on him at Nuremberg.
Role range: 1939-1945
Not Guilty Plea at Nuremberg
He entered a plea of not guilty before the International Military Tribunal.
Role range: 1939-1945
1946
IMT Verdict for Wilhelm Frick
Frick is convicted and sentenced to death for his part in Nazi state policy, occupation administration and persecution.
Role range: 1939-1945
Execution of Frick
At 02:08 on 16 October 1946, Frick was hanged in the prison gymnasium after stating 'Long live eternal Germany'; contemporary accounts record him being pronounced dead at about 02:20.
Role range: 1939-1945
Frick Executed at Nuremberg Prison
Frick is executed by hanging after conviction for his participation in Nazi state policy, aggression and persecution.
Role range: 1939-1945
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.