Eckart van Hooven
Eckart van Hooven (born December 11, 1925 in Hamburg ; † December 28, 2010 there ) was a German bank manager and politician.
Career
After military service and law studies, van Hooven started in 1955 at Norddeutsche Bank, one of the Deutsche Bank branches . He made it up to the board of directors, to which he was a member from 1972 to 1991. He was one of the fathers of the Eurocheque system. After leaving the Board of Management, van Hooven was a member of the bank's advisory group until 1996.
From 1974 to 1985 he was on the Presidium of the Economic Council of the CDU . In the state elections in Hamburg in November 1986, he was a member of Hartmut Perschau's government team and was appointed Senator for Economics in the event that the CDU provided the Senate. In 1994 he ran for the Bundestag .
literature
- Most favored. Report by a contemporary witness from 1925, Eckart van Hooven, Fritz Knapp Verlag, 2002
- International Biographical Archive 38/1994 of September 12, 1994
Web links
- Matthias Iken: Eckart van Hooven: A German life . in: Die Welt, December 22, 2002
- The inventor of the euro check died at the age of 85 in: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 5, 2011
- Eckart van Hooven in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hooven, Eckart van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bank manager and politician (CDU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2010 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |