Hans-Joachim Caesar

Hans-Joachim Caesar (born May 17, 1905 in Neisse , Province of Silesia , † May 18, 1990 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer and banker. He worked for the Reichsbank from 1931 to 1945 and was German banking commissioner in France from 1940 to 1944.

Life

Caesar was the son of Colonel Siegfried Caesar. He began to study law at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Westphalian Wilhelms University . He reciprocated in the Corps Teutonia zu Marburg on February 16, 1924, and in the same year he also became active in the Cartel Corps Rheno-Guestphalia. When he was inactive , he moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . He passed the trainee examination in 1928 and the assessor examination in 1931. He began working for the Reichsbank in Berlin in December 1931. On January 1, 1935, he was appointed Reichsbankrat, and was most recently a member of the board of directors. Among other things, he was responsible for the administration of American companies and assets during the Second World War. Some authors see him in this context as the "right hand man" of the then Vice President of the Reichsbank, Emil Puhl , who de facto led the business of the Reichsbank for the nominal Reichsbank President and Reich Economics Minister Walther Funk .

At the time of the German occupation of France in World War II , he was German banking commissioner in France from 1940 to 1944. In this role he was responsible for overseeing representative offices of allied banks such as Barclays and Chase Manhattan Bank in Paris. In addition, Caesar supervised the banking system on the British Channel Islands, which were occupied by the German Reich from 1940 to 1944, and in this capacity visited the island of Jersey in January 1941 .

From 1945 to 1947 Caesar was a British and American prisoner of war. From 1948 to 1951 he worked for the Vogeler bank in Düsseldorf. From 1952 he was managing director of the Deutsche Treuhand-Wohnbau GmbH in Stuttgart. From 1962 to 1970 he was an advisor to Westdeutsche Kreditbank for construction financing in Cologne. He sat on the supervisory boards of various German banks. At times he was also the German representative of the Ticino bank Weisscredit, which went bankrupt in 1977 .

The 1932 marriage to Ruth Schäfer, daughter of the mayor of Essen, Heinrich Schäfer , resulted in a son and two daughters.

Works

• The law of exchange in banking practice. Legal issues f. Purchase u. Administration d. Change . Beamtenpresse publishing house, Berlin 1937 (series of publications by the Staatsbank; Vol. 2)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 171/1167; 136/108
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia zu Marburg 1825 to 2000, p. 298, no. 1161.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Chapter 2: The Chase Nazi Account: in: Charles Higham, 1983, Trading with the enemy - An exposé of the Nazi-American money plot, 1933-1949: Delacorte Press, ISBN 978-0-440-09064-9
4. ^ Antony Barnett: Holocaust shame of Barclays - The bank's Paris branch offered names of Jewish staff to its Nazi masters: The Observer, Sunday, March 28th, 1999
5. ↑ Plunder by Proxy , in: Gregg J. Rickman, 2006, Conquest and Redemption - A history of Jewish assets from the Holocaust: Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0346-1 , p. 44.
6. ^ Paul Sanders: The British Channel Islands under German Occupation, 1940-1945: Gazelle Book Services, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9538858-3-1 , p. 28
7. ^ John Nettles : Jewels and Jackboots: Hitler's British Isles, the German Occupation of the British Channel Islands 1940-1945: Channel Island Publishing; Edition: 1st Limited edition (October 24, 2012): ISBN 978-1-905095-38-4
8. ↑ Fiasko von Chiasso: Der Spiegel 18/1977 , April 25, 1977, pp. 179-182.
9. ↑ Gian Trepp , January 22, 2004, Money is cool - Tito Tettamanti : Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.