Beschrijving
The Hague/Paris, Mouton, 1969, 202pp., bound, cloth with original dustjacket, Hjalmar Schacht (born Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht; 22 January 1877 – 3 June 1970, was a German economist, banker, centre-right politician, and co-founder in 1918 of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. He was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparations obligations. He served in Adolf Hitler's government as President of the Central Bank (Reichsbank) 1933-1939 and as Minister of Economics (August 1934 – November 1937).
