Hermann von Dechend

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Hermann von Dechend

Hermann Friedrich Alexander Dechend , from 1865 by Dechend , (born April 2, 1814 in Marienwerder , West Prussia , † April 30, 1890 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer in the Prussian financial administration . He was the first president of the Reichsbank and sat on the Prussian State Council .

Life

Dechend was the son of the lawyer Theodor Dechend in Marienwerder. He married Adelgunde Wilke (born November 20, 1823 in Berlin; † 1915). His daughter Susanne (1859–1929) married Hugo von Kathen, who later became General of the Infantry, in Berlin in 1884 .

Dechend attended the Marienwerder high school and passed the Abitur exam on October 17, 1834. He studied law and camera science at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1835 he became a member, later an honorary member, of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After the exams he was first at the regional and municipal court , then at the higher regional court in Marienwerder. He changed to Prussia's internal administration and from 1837 was a government trainee. He became a government assessor in 1841 and completed technical and industrial training in Berlin in 1844/45. In the province of Westphalia he worked for the government in Arnsberg in 1846 and in Münster in 1847 . In 1848 he came to the main bank, but soon afterwards he was put in charge of the Prussian loan office. In 1849 he was Councilor in the Ministry of Commerce. From 1851 on he was a member of the main bank management board of the Prussian Bank . In 1853 he became a secret finance councilor. In 1863 he was promoted to Vice President and finally in 1864 to President of the Prussian Bank. He held the office of president until 1875. After the founding of the German Empire , Dechend was the first president of the newly founded Deutsche Reichsbank from 1876 to 1890 , which took over the organization of the Prussian Bank to create a central bank .

The Prussian Bank owed Dechend essentially its development from a simple central bank to one of the leading central banks in Europe. Thus Herrmann von Dechend was significantly involved in creating the organizational prerequisites for the Reichsbank, which later emerged from the Prussian Bank. The banknotes of the Prussian Bank from 1867 to 1874 and the German Reichsbanknotes from 1876 to 1884 bear Dechend's signature.

From 1867 to 1869 Dechend was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives as a member of the Reich and Free Conservative Party (RFKP) , and from 1872 until his death (1890) he was a member of the Prussian manor house . In 1884 he became a member of the State Council. From 1877 he was the Imperial Real Privy Councilor . Because of his merits, Dechend was raised to the Prussian nobility on June 12, 1865 .

Hermann von Dechend died in Berlin in 1890 at the age of 76 and was buried in Cemetery I of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Dühring: The Marienwerder high school. From cathedral school to high school . East German contributions from the Göttingen working group , Vol. XXX. Hölzner Verlag, Würzburg 1964, p. 85.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 9/201.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Dechend, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Decchend, Hermann Friedrich Alexander von (full name); Dechend, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first German Reichsbank president
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1890
Place of death Berlin