Nazi War Criminal. Bühler was born into a Catholic family of 12 children. His father was a baker. He joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in 1922. He was one of the members of the attempted Nazi "Putsch" in Munich on November 9, 1923. Buhler worked as a lawyer in partnership with Dr. Hans Frank, who was Adolf Hitler's attorney. When the Nazis came to power, Buhler was appointed Deputy President of the Academy of German Law. In 1938, Hans Frank, now a Reich Minister, put Bühler in charge of his cabinet office. After the invasion of Poland by Germany in September 1939, Frank was appointed Governor-General for the occupied Polish territories and Bühler accompanied him to Kraków to take up the post of State Secretary of the General Government, also serving as Frank's deputy. About this time, he was given the honorary rank of SS-Brigadeführer (General) by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Bühler attended the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, as the representative from the Governor-General's office. During this conference, which discussed the imposition of the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question in the German Sphere of Influence in Europe,' Bühler stated to the other conference attendees the importance of solving 'the Jewish Question in the General Government as quickly as possible.' After the war, Bühler testified at the Nuremberg Trials on Frank's behalf. He was later extradited to Poland and tried before the Supreme National Tribunal of Poland for crimes against humanity. On July 10, 1948, he was found guilty and sentenced to death with the forfeiture of all property. He was executed in Kraków on August 22, 1948, and his death was announced by Polish authorities and noted in the New York Times the following day.