Walther Bayrhoffer

Walther Bayrhoffer (born February 1, 1890 in Berlin ; † August 14, 1967 there ) was an official in the Reich Ministry of Finance in the period before and during the Second World War .

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Bayrhoffer studied until 1911 law . From 1915 to 1919 he did his military service in the occupation administration in Poland and Lithuania. In 1920 Bayrhoffer joined the Reich Ministry for Reconstruction as a councilor. From 1924 to 1926 he was a senior councilor in the Reich Ministry of Finance . In 1929 he was commissioner of the Reich government in the Deutsche Rentenbank . In 1931 he came back to the Reich Ministry of Finance as Ministerialrat, where in 1939 he was Ministerialdirigent and Head of the General Office and at the same time “General Representative for Cash and Credit”. He held both functions until the end of the war. Bayrhoffer joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . In 1937 he became a member of the supervisory board of the main agricultural trust agency of the German East. From 1938 he was a member of the Reichsbank directorate as a representative of the finance ministry. Bayrhoffer was a member of many supervisory and administrative boards of state institutions and companies, including from 1940 a member of the administrative board of the main administration of the Reichskreditkassen .

Bayrhoffer was arrested in July 1945 and heard as a witness several times between 1946 and 1948 as part of the Nuremberg trials . From 1949 he was a pensioner.

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• Walther Bayrhoffer in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
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• Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin: Witness literature online. ZS 4, Bayrhoffer, Walter (PDF file; 8.87 MB). Reich Ministry of Finance and Reichsbank; Reich Ministry of Finance and Reich Main Treasury; Atonement of the Jews; Four year plan; Armament, financial position of the empire; Etc.
• Jürgen Kilian: War at the expense of others. The Reich Ministry of Finance and the Economic Mobilization of Europe for Hitler's War. (= The Reich Ministry of Finance under National Socialism Volume 3). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2017, p. 92 (fn. 88)