Max von Zabern

Max von Zabern (born June 3, 1903 in Giengen an der Brenz , † June 12, 1991 in Mannheim ) was district administrator in Heidenheim from 1945 to 1950 .

Life stations

After attending primary and secondary school in Giengen, Max von Zabern completed his Abitur at the Heidenheim grammar school. From 1922 to 1928 he studied economics and business administration in Tübingen and Frankfurt am Main . When he started his studies in 1926 he became active in the Chattia connection in the DWV . In 1929 he received his doctorate from the University of Frankfurt with his thesis " The development of international exchange rates in Germany since the stabilization " . After receiving his doctorate , he went to the USA as an economist . He worked there from 1930 to 1935 at Brown University Providence Rhode Island and the Brokings Institute Washington. In 1935 he returned to Germany and became head of the economic department at Commerzbank in Berlin.

The Giengen bank specialist was initially appointed by the American military government as provisional district administrator in 1945 , also because of his professional experience in America. On March 6, 1948, he was democratically elected district administrator by the new district council, but returned to his profession in 1950 and was head of the Kreissparkasse Heidenheim until 1953 and later branch director of Commerzbank in Mannheim.

In 1946 he was a member of the provisional parliament in the state of Württemberg-Baden .

On October 1, 1969, he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

literature

• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 595 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 389.