Erwin Hielscher

Erwin Hielscher (born December 19, 1898 in Halle (Saale) , † June 16, 1971 in Munich ) was a German banker. From 1946 to 1964 he was city treasurer of Munich. During his term of office, difficult tasks related to the destruction of the war and the rapid population growth of the city fell. In the run-up to the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, he played a key role in the preparation of the currency reform in the special department Money and Credit in Bad Homburg . As a representative of the group of trade unions, he was a member of the Bavarian Senate from 1947 until his death .

Life

After attending secondary school, Hielscher joined the commercial bank in Halle in 1915 as a bank apprentice. His training was interrupted when he was called up for military service. From 1919 he continued his apprenticeship and worked for the commercial bank until 1920. He then switched to the Reinhold Stechner banking business in Halle and came to Munich in 1922 as head of the securities department of the H. Aufhäuser Bank (later Seiler & Co.). He received 1923 Power of Attorney and 1942 procuration . At the beginning of the 1940s he briefly took over management positions at the Munich companies Gloria-Hausgasversorgung and Josef Pankofer & Co., but was then called back to the front.

When the military authorities of the occupying powers ordered experts to a secret meeting in Fuldatal - Rothwesten in 1948 to prepare details of the currency reform under the direction of the US economist Edward A. Tenenbaum , he took part.

Honors

• 1961: Bavarian Order of Merit
• 1964: Golden Citizen Medal of the City of Munich .
• 2006: Naming of a street in the Munich district of Aubing-Lochhausen-Langwied

Publications

• The ordeal of the German currency reform. Munich 1948
• The century of inflation in Germany. Munich 1968

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Hielscher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erwin Hielscher in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History