Eduard Batliner

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Eduard Batliner (born August 15, 1899 - October 13, 1989 ) was a Liechtenstein banker.

Life

Eduard Batliner was born in 1899 to Emil Batliner and his wife Emilie. He grew up in Moors . From 1920 to 1926 he worked at the Anglo-Austrian Bank in Innsbruck . He then worked for a bank in Liechtenstein for two years. As part of the savings bank scandal, the dissolution of the parliament led and the Progressive Citizens' Party , brought, whose member was Batliner following the election to power, Batliner was born on Sept. 15, 1928 new Director of the Savings Bank of the Principality of Liechtenstein , the today's Liechtensteinische Landesbank.

In this role, Batliner had to contend with the effects of the Sparkassa scandal at the beginning of his career. The Rhine collapse of 1927 and the New York stock market crash of October 29, 1929, and the global economic crisis that resulted from it, hit the bank and all of Liechtenstein. However, Batliner's management team managed to transform the bank from a small savings bank into an internationally active financial institution in the course of his career. In 1928, the balance sheet total was 10.2 million Swiss francs ; by 1967, when he retired, it was 474 million. From 1941 to 1943 he sat on the board of directors of Press- und Stanzwerk AG.

In 1925 he married the Austrian citizen Maria Thaler († 1982). The marriage resulted in four children, two sons ( Herbert and Heinz ) and two daughters (Hedi and Ilse).

Honors

In 1958 Prince Franz Josef II awarded him the title of «Princely Commerzienrat» for his services to the Landesbank. For his services to bobsleigh , he received the badge of honor of the World Bobsleigh Federation from Prince Albert of Monaco in 1986 on the occasion of the 39th World Bobsleigh Championship in Königssee .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b [1]
  2. ↑ PDF at www.eliechtensteinensia.li
  3. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. iur. Dr. rer. oec. Dr. hc Herbert Batliner ( Memento from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Batliner, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein banker
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1899
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1989