Franz Suchan

Franz Suchan (third from left) as representative of Schleswig-Holstein at the Rittersturz conference in 1948

Franz Suchan (born January 19, 1911 in Hamburg , † February 3, 1971 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German economist and politician ( SPD ) as well as Schleswig-Holstein state official and later Berlin state central bank president.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1929, Franz Suchan began studying economics at the University of Leipzig and continued in Hamburg, Heidelberg and Berlin. He was involved in the Democratic Student Union and was a member of its board.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was initially under police supervision. In 1935 he was able to complete his doctorate with a dissertation on economic policy as a task of public finance . He then worked for the Foreign Exchange Monitoring Office until 1936. He then switched to the private sector.

After the end of the Second World War, he served from 1945 to 1946 first as district administrator in the Husum district, then as senior district director and from 1949 to 1950 as regional director in Schleswig-Holstein. Finally he became vice-president in 1954 and president of the Berlin state central bank in 1959 .

From 1953 to 1960 he was a member of the board of directors of the broadcaster Free Berlin , since 1957 as chairman. He was then chairman of the Broadcasting Council until his death.

Franz Suchan died in Berlin in 1971 at the age of 60 and was buried in the St. Annen churchyard in Berlin-Dahlem . He rests there next to his wife, the historian, economist and social politician Erika Suchan nee. Galow (1912-1989).

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• Biographical note at geschichtswerk.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 75th cabinet meeting on August 19, 1959 TOP A (›Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government‹ online)
2. ↑ German Broadcasting Archive, Frankfurt / M.
3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 565.