Henry Vaughan Berry
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.
Awards
- Honorary Senator of the University of Hamburg
literature
- Michael Ahrens: The British in Hamburg. Occupation life 1945–1958 , Munich 2011, ISBN 3-86218-009-3 .
- Helmut Stubbe da Luz : Berry, Henry Vaughan . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 29-31 .
Web links
- Newspaper article about Henry Vaughan Berry in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
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SURNAME | Berry, Henry Vaughan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British bank manager and officer, governor for Hamburg (1946–1949) |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Madras , British India |
DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1979 |
Place of death | Bath |