“Ah! Lehár – the Fuhrer is particularly fond of his music.”
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Walther Funk
Walther Immanuel Funk was a German economist, Nazi official and convicted war criminal who served as Reichsminister for the Economy from 1938 to 1945 and president of the Reichsbank from 1939 to 1945. Funk oversaw the mobilization of the economy for Germany's rearmament and World War II, and the expropriation of assets of victims from Nazi concentration camps. He was convicted for crimes against h…
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culture · German economist and politician (1890–1960) · journalist · banker · economist · politician · also Walther Funk, Funk
Born 18 August 1890 · Died 31 May 1960 · Q57237
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2026· 3 entries
The Guardian: Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87
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The Guardian: ‘I’ve only been addicted to two things – funk and praise’: Eddie Marsan’s honest playlist
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,680 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes” in Scientific Data — cited 5,367 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE<i>FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE</i>MISSION” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 3,478 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes: Advances in Eicosanoid Biology” in Science — cited 3,155 times.
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1960· 1 entry
Died 1960-05-31.
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1933· 1 entry
Stepped down from his Reichstag position and was made Reich Chief Press Officer under Joseph Goebbels
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1931· 1 entry
And being appointed to a senior post at the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
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1920· 1 entry
Funk married Luise Schmidt-Sieben
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1918· 1 entry
Worked as a journalist, and in 1924 he became the editor of the centre-right financial newspaper the Berliner Börsenzeitung
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1914· 1 entry
Funk enlisted in the Imperial German Army and joined the infantry
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-08-18.
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