Reichsbank
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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 the confiscated gold rings of Buchenwald prisoners for the SS
Hjalmar Schacht
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Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht was a German economist, banker, politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank during
Reichsbank
…Hitler warning against uncontrolled expenditure, adding: "It is our duty to warn against this assault on the currency." Two weeks later, Hitler fired Schacht and replaced him with Walther Funk, a former journalist and Nazi loyalist. Most of the other Direktorium members resigned. A subsequent law of 15 June…
Hjalmar Schacht
Schacht (left) and Albert Vögler in Paris, where they negotiated the Young Plan, 11 February 1929
Schacht in 1931
Schacht (left) at a meeting in the Reichsbank transfer commission, 1934