Fritz Sauckel
Fritz Sauckel Sauckel at the Nuremberg trials Acting Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Anhalt In office 1933–1937 Prime Minister Alfred Freyberg Rudolf Jordan Preceded by Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper Succeeded by Rudolf Jordan Acting Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Brunswick In office 1935–1945 Prime Minister Dietrich Klagges Preceded by Wilhelm Loeper Succeeded by Rudolf Jordan Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia In office 1933–1945 Prime Minister Himself Willy Marschler Preceded by None Succeeded by None Minister President of Thuringia In office 1932–1933 Preceded by Erwin Baum Succeeded by Willy Marschler Gauleiter of Thuringia In office 1927–1945 Leader Adolf Hitler Preceded by Artur Dinter Succeeded by None General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment In office 21 March 1942 – May 1945 Preceded by None Succeeded by None Personal details Born (1894-10-27)27 October 1894 Haßfurt, then Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire Died 16 October 1946(1946-10-16) (aged 51) Nuremberg, Germany Political party National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) Spouse(s) Elisabeth Wetzel (m. 1924) Children 10 Profession Sailor, factory laborer Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from 1942 until the end of the Second World War. Sauckel was among the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to death by hanging.