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Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946) was Reich Minister of the Interior from 1933 to 1943 and Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia from 1943 to 1945. In the decisive first years of the Nazi dictatorship, Frick directed legislation that removed Jews from public life, abolished political parties , and sent political dissidents to concentration camps .

Wilhelm Frick, (born March 12, 1877, Alsenz, Ger.—died Oct. 16, 1946, Nürnberg), longtime parliamentary leader of the German National Socialist Party and Adolf Hitler’s minister of the interior, who played a major role in drafting and carrying out the Nazis’ anti-Semitic measures.

Frick's important contribution to the Nazi conspiracy was in the field of government administration. He was the administrative brain who organized the German state for Nazism and who geared the machinery of the state for aggressive war.

Wilhelm Frick served as Reich Minister of the Interior and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia. Frick was born in Alsenz, the son of a Protestant schoolteacher. He studied law at several German universities and received his doctorate in 1901. From 1904 to 1924 he worked as a government official in the Munich police department.

Wilhelm Frick (* 12. März 1877 in Alsenz, Nordpfalz; † 16. Oktober 1946 in Nürnberg) war ein deutscher Jurist und nationalsozialistischer Politiker, unter anderem von 1933 bis 1943 Reichsminister des Innern. Er war an Aufbau und Etablierung des NS-Staates maßgeblich beteiligt.