Editing Walther Funk (section)

==Early life==
Walther Immanuel Funk was born on 18 August 1890 in [[Nesterovsky District|Danzkehmen]] (present-day Sosnovka in [[Kaliningrad Oblast]], [[Russia]]) near [[Yasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast|Trakehnen]], [[East Prussia]], the son of [[merchant]] and [[entrepreneur]] Walther Funk and his wife Sophie ([[née]] Urbschat). He was the only one of the Nuremberg defendants who was born in the [[former eastern territories of Germany]]. Funk studied law, economics, and philosophy at the [[University of Berlin]] and the [[University of Leipzig]], receiving his law [[doctorate]] in 1912. He subsequently trained as a [[journalist]] at newspapers ''National-Zeitung'' in [[Berlin]] and ''Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten'' in [[Leipzig]].

Following the outbreak of [[World War I]] in 1914, Funk enlisted in the [[Imperial German Army]] and joined the [[infantry]]. He was [[wounded in action]] and subsequently [[Military discharge|discharged]] as medically unfit for service in 1916. Following the end of the war in 1918, he worked as a journalist, and in 1924 he became the editor of the [[Centre-right politics|centre-right]] financial newspaper the ''Berliner Börsenzeitung''. In 1920, Funk married Luise Schmidt-Sieben.