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Post by Helge » 26 Sep 2010, 17:58

On April 2, 1925 Hans Frank married 29-year-old secretary Brigitte Herbst (25. Dezember 1895 in Eitorf an der Sieg; † 9. März 1959 in München) from Forst (Lausitz). The wedding took place in Munich and the couple honeymooned in Venetia. Hans and Brigitte Frank had five children:

* Sigrid Frank (born March 13, 1927 in Munich)
* Norman Frank (born June 3, 1928 in Munich)
* Brigitte Frank (born January 13, 1935 in Munich)
* Michael Frank (born February 15, 1937 in Munich)
* Niklas Frank (born March 9, 1939 in Munich)

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Brigitte Frank fled with her children in late 1944 from the General to the Bavarian Neuhaus. Hans Frank left Krakow on 17 January 1945 was the direction of Bavaria, on 1 May was arrested and placed in Josephstal in November in Nuremberg before the main war crimes tribunal. He was found guilty and on 16 Executed in October 1946.

In May 1945, attacked the middle of the night Polish forced laborers freed the Schoberhof and left the Frank family with his back up against the wall. Brigitte Frank reckoned to be shot, but the intruders were from the family after the wine cellar of the Governor General had discovered. The oldest daughter Sigrid married in October 1945 at the age of 18 years and left the first of the five children of the house. Brigitte Frank lived on the Schoberhof until 29 May 1947 and arrested two days later in the labor and internment was brought Göggingen Augsburg (internee number 1467). All the wives of the 1946 convicted war criminals (if resident in Bavaria) have been detained because of "escape and danger of collusion." In the camp they built up a close friendship with Ilse Hess, Emmy Göring was a contrast to Intimfeindin. She was released from prison in 1948 and in 1953 published the book "In the face of the gallows. Interpretation of Hitler and his time on the basis of own experiences and knowledge", which had written to her husband during his imprisonment at the Nuremberg prison justice from 1945 to 1946. She lived until her death in 1959 in Munich.

Brigitte Frank (the daughter) died the first of the children at the age of 46 years. The official gave the family cancer as cause of death, but to keep rumors that she is said to have committed suicide. She had often said that they are not older than her father wanted to be, who was hanged at the age of 46. Michael Frank died at the age of 53 years of organ failure. In March 2005, the youngest son Niklas Frank, who in 1987 had a book with his father, had settled the "Polish butcher," a tell-all book about his "German mother," in which criticized them as unprincipled careerist and heartless mother.

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Brigitte Herbst Frank

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Brigitte Herbst Frank

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Brigitte Herbst Frank post war
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Here Hans Frank's wife Brigitte with their children Niklas and Brigitte visit during the 1946 War Crimes Trial.
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Post by Medi » 26 Sep 2010, 18:22

I will say the lady is well posed in most of the photos, little or no expression at all. except in the first photo where she wears a slight grin......

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Post by J. Duncan » 26 Sep 2010, 23:20

I have read about her in the book "In the Shadow of the Reich" by her son Niklas Frank that she was a very ambitious woman who squawked at her husband constantly and carried on an affair with Frank's friend Karl Lasch. Niklas has nothing good to say about her or his father Hans. I even remember that in the beginning of the book he calls his father a homosexual - wishing that he had found a man instead of his mother, who was older than him and was possessed of a viciousness matched only by the women of the ancient Roman emperors. She bossed her husband and used the system to enrich herself , buying expensive furs and jewelry on the cheap from the impoverished Jews of the "General Government". His book is an extremely biased source of information...one feels that he really hates his parents.

Helge - great photos - thanks for sharing them.

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Post by Helge » 26 Sep 2010, 23:30

Brigitte Frank was the daughter of the mill owner Otto Herbst and his wife Martha, nee Langer. Shortly after her birth, the young family of Eitorf pulled the victory for Forest in the Lausitz, as Martha Herbst's family came from there and successfully a large meat and sausage sales operation. Brigitte's call name was actually Mary. She had four siblings: Elsie, Martha, Otto and Henry. Committed suicide in 1908, her father, as he was deeply in debt and worried about can not feed his family. Brigitte was able to process this loss never perfect. In character she saw was still very confident and independent, they also aspired as a young girl to a higher standard of living than he could expect a penniless orphan.

They went to a counselor in the teaching and was a stenographer. At the beginning of World War I, she went to Berlin, where she hoped there better working opportunities and a faster rise in higher social circles. They also began to sell fur coats and other furs against Commission. At that time she changed her nickname for Brigitte as her Mary was too common. In Berlin, she worked with a lawyer, which she threw out, after having stated that Brigitte used his office as an illegal Pelzlager. She met a wealthy widow lieutenant know who was looking for a secretary for his correspondence and a guard for his children. It quickly became his lover Brigitte and moved with him to Munich.
The marriage to Hans Frank

Early 1920s, she got a job as a lover by well-meaning Stenografinn in the Bavarian state assembly and later as a secretary at the Munich University. There were always looking for people who abtippten the doctoral theses of students. In this way, Brigitte met in May 1924, five years younger Hans Frank know, a nationalist, anti-Semitic law students, who sympathized with the Nazi Party. Brigitte was sure to be only on the side of a man successful and prosperous in addition they had expressed to her friends always, she had before her 30th Birthday to be married. Hans Frank seemed just right, he was just as Dr. jur. doctorate and rose to within the Nazi party to Hitler's lawyer. She herself was nothing of the Nazis or Hitler, of which it is made with family and friends occasionally funny. As a politically disinterested man, it played perfectly for them no matter which party was Frank, as long as it will become profitable only for them. It never entered into the NSDAP, the Nazi women's or other National Socialist organization.

On 2 April 1925 was held in Munich, the wedding, they spent their honeymoon in Venice. The couple were both from the character and setting, as well as the age and cultural background of her very different. The cool, unemotional Prussian Brigitte, who grew up in modest circumstances and refused any form of intimacy looked to a young, loving Bavaria from a wealthy family to advocate, who was musically inclined and sentimental. The marriage was not very much, Frank could not be penetrated to his dominant woman. Although Brigitte Frank neither maternal feelings harbored nor particularly fond of children, was she gave birth to over the next five years children: Sigrid (March 13, 1927), Norman (born June 3, 1928), Brigitte (January 13, 1935), Michael (February 15, 1937) and Niklas Frank (born March 9, 1939).

Brigitte Frank looked at her children as legitimacy and justification. "Hans, I'll have given birth to five children!" was their primary argument for her husband to move to something. The births followed often long spa stays. Moreover, Brigitte Frank had several abortions because they feared to have received the child from one of her beloved. In such cases, they feigned a miscarriage or premature birth, so that Hans Frank did not suspect. The family lived in fishing camp in the Bavarian town Neuhaus on Schiersee, where it on an old restored farm, the "Schoberhof resided".

With Frank's ascent within the party after the seizure and the constant acquisition of new office always was accompanied by a state of constant growth, the Brigitte Frank attached great importance and very proud.
"Queen of Poland" [edit]

When Hans Frank, 26 October 1939 had been appointed Governor General of occupied Poland, the Frank family went on 9 November 1939 at the royal castle in Krakow, the Wawel. First, the city of Poznan as a residential and office of the governor-general had been planned, but Hitler had insisted on the Wawel Hill as the heart of the old Poland. Henceforth, the Franks were behaving like a royal couple in Poland, Brigitte Frank called himself "Queen of Poland." She rode in an open Mercedes in the ghettos of Krakow and Warsaw, where she took custody Jews under false promises of jewelry, furs and other valuables. Neither Hans nor Brigitte Frank felt sorry for Poles and Jews. Churches, castles and manor houses of the country were used by the Franks as a source of valuable furniture, art and jewelry. The Castle Kress village outside Krakow (formerly owned by Count Potocki) of the family served as a holiday and weekend residence. During the war, sent Frank Brigitte food to her family in Forst. By and by allegations were heard from Berlin, the General was considered a bastion of corruption and nepotism.

After 1942 Hans Frank had his puppy love Lilly Groh (1898-1977) met again, he intended to leave his wife and marry again. Brigitte did not want to give up its status as a "lady" and wife of a Foreign Minister and traveled to Berlin, where Hitler asserted a prohibition of divorce (Quote: "Dear, I am the widow as the divorced wife of a Foreign Minister!"). Frank tried equally massive convince Hitler to agree to a divorce. It declined, however, and forbade the divorce until after the war. The mistress of her husband called Brigitte to the Reich Leader SS Heinrich Himmler as a Jew to get rid of. The relationship of the spouses to one another was completely destroyed by that time, the marriage was beyond repair.

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Post by Helge » 27 Sep 2010, 01:33

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Post by J. Duncan » 27 Sep 2010, 01:44

These are incredible photos! Thanks Helge for posting these rare portraits. (Duncan)

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Post by Helge » 05 Feb 2012, 12:42

Photo: archív nakladatelství Práh
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Post by Helge » 04 Sep 2012, 07:17

Hans Frank and his wife smiling? I had never seen their smile.
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Post by Helge » 03 Jun 2014, 16:23

Brigitte Herbst Frank post war

Source: Münchner Illustrierte 17 Juli 1954
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Post by Helge » 10 Nov 2020, 19:48

1947: Brigitte Herbst Frank reads the Bible in Miesbach prison.

Source: Baldwin Collection.
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Post by Helge » 17 Nov 2020, 22:27

Mother Brigitte Frank in a dark dress, her eldest daughter Sigrid to the left, the girl below on the left is daughter Brigitte. Son Norman is at the very back. Right in the picture (on the mother's lap) Michael. The youngest, sitting on the armchair with sister Brigitte, is Niklas.

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