Friedrich Dreyse

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Friedrich Wilhelm Dreyse (born November 12, 1874 in Nordhausen ; † 1943 ; also Fritz Dreyse ) was a German banker and Vice President of the Reichsbank .

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As the son of Fritz Dreyse and his wife Emilie Dorrhauer, he attended high school in Nordhausen, where he took the Abitur exam in 1893. Then he completed training in banking. This was followed by a professional activity in Nordhausen and in Halle (Saale) at Reinhold Steckner.

He deepened his professional banking practice through theoretical knowledge in Halle (Saale) and in Würzburg . From January 23, 1899 he was employed by the Reichsbank branch in Krefeld . In the Reichsbank branch in Sangerhausen he was on the board of directors from 1908. In 1916 he was transferred to Altenburg . From May 1919 he worked as a laborer on the board of directors of the Reichsbank.

He was promoted to Reichsbank director and advisor to the board of directors in 1921. From 1924 he was a member of the board of directors of the Reichsbank. When Vice President Carl Kaufmann left the Reichsbank in 1926, he assumed the position of Vice President of the Reichsbank from December 3, 1926 and was thus also a member of the General Council of the Reichsbank . He also held a position as commissioner of the Reichsbank at Deutsche Rentenbank . In 1935 he lived in Berlin-Dahlem at Vogelsang 13.

When Hjalmar Schacht sent a letter to Hitler on January 7, 1939, warning him to continue the extensive financial policy, Schacht, Dreyse, Ernst Hülse and then the other members of the Reichsbank's board of directors - Karl Blessing - resigned on January 20, 1939 , Carl Ehrhardt and Wilhelm Vocke  - result.

Offices

  • Deputy Chairman of the Gold Discount Bank
  • 1936 deputy chairman of the supervisory board for banking
  • 1939–1943 deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Dresdner Bank

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 322.
  2. ^ Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 , p. 483.
  3. Handbook on the officials of the Reichsbank 1931 . P. 6.
  4. ^ Ernst Baltensperger : Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark. Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948 . Oxford 1999, pp. 39-40.