Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official (1887–1977)

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1887–1977
Aged 90
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Updated 2026-06-11

He held the purse strings of the Third Reich for thirteen straight years — longer than nearly any other cabinet minister — managing the money that funded the camps and laundering stolen Jewish property, then briefly led what remained of Germany after Hitler's suicide.

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Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was appointed finance minister by Franz von Papen in 1932, a non-partisan conservative who stayed in the post when Adolf Hitler took power the following year at President Hindenburg's request. His ministry participated directly in the theft and laundering of property seized from German and European Jews and financed the concentration camp system. On 30 January 1937 Hitler gave him the Golden Party Badge, making him automatically a Nazi Party member; he also joined the Academy for German Law that year. After Hitler and Joseph Goebbels died in May 1945, he…

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