By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

He sympathized with far-right Freikorps paramilitary units fighting against the democratic Bavarian government of Minister-president Kurt Eisner. Chief of Police Ernst Pöhner introduced him to Adolf Hitler whom he helped willingly with obtaining permissions to hold political rallies and demonstrations. Frick was then appointed to the ceremonial post of Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.

After the end of World War II he was tried for war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and executed.