Franz Schroeder (State Secretary)
Franz Clemens Schroeder (born May 7, 1874 in Danzig ; † 1948 ) was State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance during the Weimar Republic .
biography
Schroeder studied law in Tübingen , where he became a member, later an honorary member, of the Corps Franconia in 1891 .
After the state examination, he became a court trainee in 1894 and then in 1898 a court assessor at local courts and in the Prussian civil service. From 1902 to 1905 he worked as a laborer in the budget department and then from 1908 in the Prussian Ministry of Finance. Between 1905 and 1908 he was transferred to the budget department of the government of Danzig . On April 14, 1906, he was promoted to the government council and in November 1908 to the secret finance council and lecturing council in the Prussian Ministry of Finance. After his promotion to the Secret Chief Finance Council in 1912, he was Deputy General Commissioner for Banks in Belgium between 1915 and 1916 . Subsequently, he worked as ministerial director of the budget department in the Reich Treasury , where he was appointed undersecretary at the end of 1918 . As such, he was the financial administration representative at the Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest peace agreements and at other international conferences.
In 1920 he became State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance alongside Heinrich Zapf and was thus one of the closest employees of the Reich Finance Ministers Joseph Wirth , Andreas Hermes , Rudolf Hilferding and Hans Luther until 1924 . In March 1920 he contributed to the failure of the Kapp Putsch in, using his signature refused on a check at the expense of the Reichsbank. In October 1923, Reich Economics Minister Joseph Koeth criticized the administration of Luther and Schroeder and particularly criticized their ineptitude on the currency issue.
After leaving the Reich Ministry of Finance, he became President of the Prussian State Bank in 1924 . In addition to membership in executive boards and supervisory boards of several companies, he also became a member of the central committee of the Reichsbank in 1933 . After the end of the Second World War , he was given leave of absence and retired in 1945.
source
- Franz Schroeder (State Secretary) in the online version of the files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
- Witt, Peter-Christian: "Reich Finance Minister and Reich Finance Administration 1918–1924" , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, issue January 1975, p. 22 marginal number 74 (PDF file; 5.54 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 127 , 494
- ^ Hirschberg, Max: "Jew and Democrat. Memories of a Munich lawyer 1883–1939" , 1998, ISBN 3-486-56367-X
- ↑ The Reich Economics Minister to the Reich Chancellor. October 1923
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schroeder, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schroeder, Franz Clemens (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1948 |