Editing Wilhelm Frick (section)

==Nazi career==
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00344A, München, nach Hitler-Ludendorff Prozess.jpg|thumb|left|Frick (3rd from left) among the defendants in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch trial, 1924. [[Adolf Hitler]] is 4th from the right.]]
In Munich, Frick witnessed the end of the war and the [[German Revolution of 1918–1919]]. He sympathized with right-wing ''[[Freikorps]]'' paramilitary units. Chief of Police [[Ernst Pöhner]] introduced him to [[Adolf Hitler]], whom he helped willingly with obtaining permission to hold political rallies and demonstrations.

Elevated to the rank of an ''Oberamtmann'' and head of the Political department of the Munich police from 1923, he and Pöhner participated in Hitler's failed [[Beer Hall Putsch]] on 9 November. Frick tried to suppress the [[Bavarian State Police|State Police]]'s operation, wherefore he was arrested and imprisoned, and tried for aiding and abetting [[high treason]] by the [[People's Court (Bavaria)|People's Court]] in April 1924. After several months in custody, he was given a suspended sentence of 15 months' imprisonment and was dismissed from his police job. Later during the disciplinary proceedings, the dismissal was declared unfair and revoked, on the basis that his treasonous intention had not been proven. Frick went on to work at the Munich [[social insurance]] office from 1926 onwards, in the rank of a ''Regierungsrat'' 1st class by 1933.

In the aftermath of the putsch, Wilhelm Frick was elected a member of the German ''[[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]]'' parliament in the [[May 1924 German federal election|federal election of May 1924]]. He had been nominated by the [[National Socialist Freedom Movement]], an [[electoral list]] of the far-right [[German Völkisch Freedom Party]] and then [[Ban (law)|banned]] [[Nazi Party]]. On 1 September 1925, Frick joined the re-established Nazi Party. On 20 May 1928, he was one of the first 12 deputies elected to the ''Reichstag'' as Nazi Party members. He associated himself with the radical [[Gregor Strasser]]; making his name by aggressive anti-democratic and [[antisemitism|antisemitic]] Reichstag speeches, he climbed to the post of the Nazi [[parliamentary group leader]] (''Fraktionsführer'') in 1928.<ref name="Rulers Index">{{cite web|url=http://rulers.org/indexf2.html|title=Index Fo-Fy|website=rulers.org}}</ref> He would continue to be elected to the ''Reichstag'' in every subsequent election in the Weimar and Nazi regimes. First elected from the Nazi electoral list in 1928, he was returned as a deputy from electoral constituency 27 ([[Palatinate (electoral district)|Palatinate]]) in 1930 and from constituency 12 ([[Thuringia (electoral district)|Thuringia]]) thereafter.<ref>[https://www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de/selectmaske.html?name=Wilhelm+Frick&geschlecht=&ort=&beruforg=&BERUF=&BERUFSFELDER%5B%5D=&KONFESSION%5B%5D=&WP%5B%5D=&PARTEI%5B%5D=&schlu=reichstag24&recherche=ja Wilhelm Frick entry] in the [https://www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de/ ''Reichstag Members Database]</ref>

In [[1929 Thuringian state election]], as the price for joining the [[coalition government]] of the ''Land'' (state) of [[Thuringia]], the NSDAP received the state ministries of the Interior and Education. On 23 January 1930, Frick was appointed to these ministries, becoming the first Nazi to hold a ministerial-level post at any level in Germany (though he remained a member of the Reichstag).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bjornetjenesten.dk/teksterdk/Nurnbergprocessen/nurnberg-biogr.htm|title=Nurnbergprocessen 1|website=www.bjornetjenesten.dk|access-date=7 December 2008|archive-date=14 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114172648/http://www.bjornetjenesten.dk/teksterdk/Nurnbergprocessen/nurnberg-biogr.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Frick used his position to dismiss [[Communist Party of Germany|Communist]] and [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic]] officials and replace them with Nazi Party members, so Thuringia's federal subsidies were temporarily suspended by Reich Minister [[Carl Severing]]. Frick also appointed the eugenicist [[Hans F. K. Günther]] as a professor of [[social anthropology]] at the [[University of Jena]], banned several newspapers, and banned [[Pacifism|pacifist]] drama and anti-war films such as ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]''. He was removed from office by a Social Democratic [[motion of no confidence]] in the Thuringian [[Landtag]] parliament on 1 April 1931.