Henry Vaughan Berry

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Henry Vaughan Berry (born March 28, 1891 in Madras , British India , † February 27, 1979 in Bath ) was a British bank manager and officer. From 1946 to 1949 he was British civil governor in Hamburg .

Life

The son of a senior bank manager, studied economics at Cambridge and entered the civil service in 1913. During the First World War he served as a volunteer in France and then until 1923 as an occupation officer in the occupied Rhineland . From 1925 until the outbreak of World War II, Berry worked for a bank and then switched back to civil service. After the end of the war, he became civil governor for the province of Westphalia in May 1946 . When this rose a few months later in the newly formed state of North Rhine-Westphalia , Berry moved to Hamburg as the successor to the previous city commander Armytage .

After signing the Ruhr Statute , Berry was sent to the International Ruhr Authority in Düsseldorf as the British representative in 1949 , but returned to Great Britain a year later. Until 1963 he worked there for the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain , founded in 1949 , which controlled the British iron and steel industry.

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