Heinrich Troeger
Heinrich Troeger (born March 4, 1901 in Zeitz , † August 28, 1975 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German lawyer and politician ( SPD ). From 1958 to 1969 he was Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank .
Life
Troeger was born the son of a district medical councilor. After graduating from grammar school he took a degree in law and political science at Breslau , Würzburg and Halle on which he in 1922 with the graduation to the Dr. jur. finished.
Troeger had been a member of the SPD since 1922. During the period of the Weimar Republic , he was a member of the Lower Silesian Provincial Parliament and the Provincial Committee there from 1929 to 1933 .
From 1925 Tröger was a government assessor at the district offices in Euskirchen and Dortmund . Since 1926 he was the first mayor of the city of Neusalz . After the National Socialists came to power , he was removed from office in 1933.
From 1934 to 1945 he worked as a specialist lawyer for foreign exchange and tax law in Berlin, most recently as an administrative lawyer. Among other things, he was employed during the Second World War as a trustee for the "enemy" business assets of the Canadian manufacturer Massey-Harris , which had production facilities for agricultural machinery in Germany and occupied France.
After the Second World War , he was Lord Mayor of Jena in 1945/46 . He moved to West Germany and settled in Hessen . In 1947 he was appointed Ministerialdirektor in the Hessian Ministry of Finance and from 1947 to 1949 took over the office of Secretary General of the State Council of the United Economic Area . In 1950/51 he was Ministerial Director in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Finance and at the same time deputy to Minister Heinrich Weitz .
From January 10, 1951 to September 26, 1956, he was the Hessian State Minister of Finance in the state government led by Prime Minister Georg-August Zinn . He was also a member of various supervisory boards. From 1954 until his resignation in 1958, he was a member of the Hessian state parliament .
Tröger was President of the Hessian State Central Bank in 1956/57 and Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 1958 to 1969 . From 1964 to 1966 he headed a commission named after him for the reform of the financial constitution.
Honors
- 1966: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications
- The movement of capital in German foreign exchange law , 1934
- Import and export according to German and foreign currency law , 1940
- Criminal Tax Law , 1943
- Essays
- Thilo Vogelsang: Lord Mayor of Jena 1945/46. From the memories of Dr. Heinrich Troeger. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 25th year, 4th volume, contributions from the Institute for Contemporary History (Oct., 1977), pp. 889–930 ( PDF ).
literature
- Bernd Friedrich: Troeger, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , p. 427 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 409-410 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
- Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 383-384.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Troeger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinrich Troeger - estate in the archive of social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
- Troeger, Heinrich. Hessian biography. (As of July 16, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quarterly Issues for Contemporary History, Volume 25 (1977), Issue 4, p. 892
Wilhelm Mattes (Greater Hesse, 1945–1946) | Robert Philipp Nöll von der Nahmer (Greater Hesse, 1946) | Werner Hilpert (1947–1951) | Heinrich Troeger (1951–1956) | Wilhelm Conrad (1956–1964) | Albert Osswald (1964–1969) | Erwin Lang (1969–1970) | Rudi Arndt (1970–1972) | Heribert Reitz (1972–1984) | Hans Krollmann (1984–1987) | Manfred Kanther (1987–1991) | Annette Fugmann-Heesing (1991–1994) | Ernst Welteke (1994–1995) | Karl Starzacher (1995–1999) | Karlheinz Weimar (1999–2010) | Thomas Schäfer ( 2010–2020) | Michael Boddenberg (since 2020)
Robert Nöll von der Nahmer (Greater Hesse) | Heinrich Troeger | Walther gases | Herbert Lauffer | Gustav Feick | Otto Krauss | Josef Durstewitz | Jochen Vogler | Hans Dethloff | Claus Demke | Otto-Erich Geske | Harald Noack | Jochen Riebel | Bernd Abeln | Walter Arnold | Harald Lemke | Horst Westerfeld | Thomas Schäfer | Luise Hölscher | Bernadette Weyland | Martin Worms
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Armin Schmidt |
Lord Mayor of Jena 1945–1946 |
Heinrich Mertens |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Troeger, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdL, Lord Mayor of Jena, Hessian Minister of State |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Time |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1975 |
| Place of death | Bad Nauheim |