Hans Luther was a German politician and Chancellor of Germany for 482 days in 1925 to 1926. As Minister of Finance he helped stabilize the Mark during the hyperinflation of 1923. From 1930 to 1933, Luther was head of the Reichsbank and from 1933 to 1937 he served as German Ambassador to the United States.
Hans Luther
The Reichsbank was the central bank of the German Empire from 1876 until the end of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Reichsbank head office at Jägerstraße in Berlin, photographed in 1933
A 100-Goldmark banknote issued by the German Reichsbank in 1908
A 10000 Mark banknote issued by the German Reichsbank in 1922
As Minister of Economics, Walther Funk accelerated the pace of rearmament and as Reichsbank president banked for the SS the confiscated gold rings of Buchenwald prisoners