George Barstow

George Lewis Barstow ( May 20, 1874 - January 29, 1966 ) was a British civil servant and businessman.

Life and activity

Barstow was educated at Clifton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. He then entered the civil service: in 1896 he was assigned to the Local government Board. In 1898 he came to the Treasury, the British Treasury Department, where he was appointed chief officer in 1909.

In 1919 Barstow was appointed Controller of Supply Services in the Treasury. He held this post until 1927.

In 1927 Barstow was appointed to the British government's rank as director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company . He remained in this position for nineteen years until 1946.

In addition, Barstow belonged to the board of directors of the Prudential Assurance Company since 1928, in which he finally took the position of deputy chairman and then (from 1941 to 1953) that of chairman.

Barstow was married and had two sons, one of whom was killed in the war.

Due to his role in British economic life at the end of the 1930s, Barstow was classified as an important target by the police forces of National Socialist Germany: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin therefore placed him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people whom the Nazi surveillance apparatus considered special dangerous or important, which is why, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, they should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following special SS units with special priority.

literature

• Randolph Churchill / Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill. 1922-1939, Companion Volume 1, 1976, p. 66.
• Ronald W. Ferrier / JH Bamberg: The History of the British Petroleum Company , Vol. 1, 1982.