death_date children nationality birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place term_start spouse image name caption predecessor birth_place president party office chancellor successor religion article_title
29 january 1941 3 german 26 august 1881 29 january 1941 university of munich berlin , nazi germany 1 june 1932 luise stoffel -lrb- m. 1920 -rrb- bundesarchiv bild 183-h13466 , franz gürtner.jpg franz gürtner gürtner with golden party badge , 1938 curt joël regensburg , german empire paul hitler '' führer '' -lrb- 1934 -- 1941 -rrb- von hindenburg -lrb- 1932 -- 1934 -rrb- adolf german 1933 nazi party -lrb- nsdap -rrb- from 1937 national people 's party -lrb- dnvp -rrb- until reich minister of justice weimar republic nazi germany franz -lrb- 1932 -- 1933 -rrb- adolf hitler -lrb- 1933 -- von 1941 -rrb- papen -lrb- 1932 -rrb- kurt von schleicher franz schlegelberger -lrb- acting -rrb- roman catholicism franz gürtner

franz gürtner

franz gürtner -lrb- 26 august 1881 -- 29 january 1941 -rrb- was a german minister of justice in adolf hitler 's cabinet , responsible for coordinating jurisprudence in the third reich .
detesting the cruel ways of the gestapo and sa in dealing with prisoners of war , he protested unsuccessfully to hitler , nevertheless staying on in the cabinet , hoping to reform the establishment from within .
instead , he found himself providing official sanction and legal grounds for a series of criminal actions under the hitler administration .
