Ernst Feßler

Ernst Feßler (born August 23, 1908 in Castrop-Rauxel ; † May 13, 1979 ) was a German economist and banker.

Life

Ernst Feßler, son of bank director Hans Feßler and Amalie Feßler, b. Spancken, after a bank teacher, studied law and economics at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Cologne from 1926 to 1931 . In 1934 he passed the great state examination in law . From 1935 to 1945 he was employed in the Reich Ministry of Justice and the Prussian Ministry of Justice as well as for the Reich Commissioner for Credit.

From 1948 to 1953 he worked for the Landeszentralbank Niedersachsen , since 1951 as its vice-president. In 1953 he became vice-president of the state central bank of North Rhine-Westphalia and was its president from 1956 to 1976. In this function he was a member of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank .

Since 1926 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDStV Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1960 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Tisserant and invested on September 11, 1960 by the Grand Prior of the Order Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger .

He married Auguste Massenberg in 1939; there are three sons from the marriage.

Honors

• 1968: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1971: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1976: Large Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is Who? The German Who's Who. 19th edition, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-7973-0296-7 , p. 217; 20th edition, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1979, ISBN 3-7950-2001-8 , p. 1337 (in the Nekrolog)