Philipp Bouhler (born 11 September 1899 in Munich; died 19 May 1945 in Dachau (suicide)) was a Nazi German government official, head of the Führer's Chancellery and leader of the euthanasia programme, the so-called Aktion T4. September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Munich and the Bavarian Alps Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the largest city and capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about Dachau town. ... It has been suggested that Suicide and culture be merged into this article or section. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... This poster reads: 60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community during his lifetime. ...

Bouhler was born to a retired colonel and spent five years in the Royal Bavarian Cadet Corps. He took part in the First World War and was badly wounded. From 1919 to 1920, he studied philosophy for four semesters and in 1921 became a contributor in the publishing house that put out the Völkischer Beobachter. Already by autumn 1922 he had become second secretary of the NSDAP. After the failed Beerhall Putsch in Munich and the subsequent refounding of the Party in 1925, he became Reich Secretary of the NSDAP. After the seizure of power in 1933, he became Reich Leader and Member of the Reichstag for Westphalia. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... One of the last editions of the Völkischer Beobachter (April 20, 1945) hails Adolf Hitler as man of the century on the occasion of his 56th birthday, ten days before his suicide. ... The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... The Hitler Putsch (also commonly referred to in English as the Beer Hall Putsch) occurred in the evening of Thursday, November 8 to early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923 when the nascent Nazi partys Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders... Machtergreifung is a German word meaning seizure of power. ... Westphalia (German: Westfalen) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and included in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. ...

One year later, Bouhler became Police Chairman of Munich, and only a month later, he was appointed head of Adolf Hitler's Chancellery, a post specially created on 17 November 1934 that was first and foremost set aside for Party business. In this job, for instance, secret decrees might be prepared, or internal business managed, before being brought before Adolf Hitler. Bouhler was moreover Chairman of the Official Party Inspection Commission for the Protection of National Socialist Literature, which determined which writings were suitable for Nazi society, and which were not. (help· info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... (help· info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ...

Bouhler's post was one of the internal communication points through which Hitler handled foreign agencies' awkward or personal tasks. He took care of letters from ordinary people containing requests for material help, godfatherhood, job procurement, clemency, readmittance to the NSDAP, or birthday wishes for Hitler. Furthermore, he was responsible for Hitler's private correspondence.

Besides that, lists and appraisals of German and Germany-based professors were compiled and documents about Hitler's family coat of arms gathered. A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ...

Bouhler was, however, also responsible for some especially thorny missions. The most important among these was the implementation of the euthanasia programme. For this, his job gave him manpower under his direct orders. First, mentally ill and physically handicapped people were murdered, and various methods of killing were tried out, for instance gassing. The first killing station was Schloss Hartheim in Upper Austria, which was expropriated in 1939 and redeveloped in 1940 as a killing centre for the southeast of the Reich. A mental illness is defined by the medical profession as a disorder of the brain that results in a disruption in a persons thinking, feeling, moods, and ability to relate to others and to work. ... The term disability, as it is applied to humans, refers to any condition that impedes the completion of daily tasks using traditional methods. ... Schloss Hartheim was one of the Nazi Euthanasia killing centers where the physically and mentally disabled were killed by gassing and lethal injection as part of the T-4 Euthanasia Program. ... Upper Austria (Ober sterreich) is one of the nine federal states or Bundesl nder of Austria. ...

Likewise, personnel and equipment for the death camps, in which Jews were to be gassed, were put in Poland. On 24 August 1941, on Hitler's orders, Bouhler had to bring the euthanasia programme into operation, as the overt pressure to do so became ever greater. August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

In 1942, Bouhler published the book "Napoleon – Kometenpfad eines Genies" ("Napoleon – A Genius's Cometary Path"), which would become Hitler's favourite reading. In the same year, 92 euthanasia programme associates were consulted for help with the so-called Aktion Reinhardt as they were considered specialists in killing for the industrialized annihilation of human beings. Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard, Einsatz Reinhard, Aktion Reinhardt or Einsatz Reinhardt in German) was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the former General Government and rob their possessions. ...

Bouhler, who himself always kept in the background, came to put the burden of the course of the war ever more on Hermann Göring. At the same time, this caused tension with Hitler's most trusted men, such as Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. Among Göring's followers, it was thought that Bouhler, who had by now wound up in prison, should be sent to Dachau concentration camp after serving his sentence. On the way there on 19 May 1945, Bouhler killed himself. Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also Goering in English) (January 12, 1893 – October 15, 1946) was an early member of the Nazi party, leader of the Gestapo, and one of the main leaders of Nazi Germany. ... Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (October 29, 1897 – May 1, 1945) was Adolf Hitlers Propaganda Minister (see Propagandaministerium) in Nazi Germany. ... Heinrich Himmler (help· info) (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ... The Dachau concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp near the city of Dachau, north of Munich, in Bavaria (southern Germany). ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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