Frank, Karl Hermann

Karl Her­mann Frank (1898−1946) – as a mem­ber of the rad­i­cal wing of the Sude­ten Ger­man Par­ty, he was elect­ed to the Nation­al Assem­bly of the Czechoslo­vak Repub­lic in 1935, and in 1939 he became Chief of Police and State Sec­re­tary of the Office of the Reich Pro­tec­tor. In June 1942, after the assas­si­na­tion of Hey­drich, he ordered Lidice to be razed to the ground. After a failed escape from Prague, he was arrest­ed by the Amer­i­cans in May 1945 and hand­ed over to the Czechoslo­vak courts. A year lat­er, an extra­or­di­nary peo­ple’s court sen­tenced him to death for war crimes.