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Hermann Josef Abs.
Hermann Josef Abs (15 October 1901 in Bonn – 5 February 1994 in Bad Soden)[1] was a German banker. He was a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank from 1938 to 1945, as well as of 44 other companies,[2] including IG Farben. As the most powerful commercial banker of the Third Reich, he was, according to economic journalist Adam LeBor, "the lynchpin of the continent wide plunder".[3] The Allies arrested him as a suspected war criminal on 16 January 1946, however British intervention got him freed after three months despite a detailed report that would be published later.[2] After World War II (1957–1967) he was chairman of Deutsche Bank, and contributed to the reconstruction of the German economy.
References
- ^ "Abs, Hermann J.". Who Was Who in America, 1993-1996, vol. 11. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who. 1996. p. 1. ISBN 0837902258.
- ^ a b Wistrich, Robert (27 April 2016). Who's Who In Nazi Germany (third ed.). Routledge. pp. 1–2. ISBN 1138171557.
- ^ LeBor, Adam (28 May 2013). Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World. PublicAffairs. ISBN 161039254X.
Other sources
- Hermann J. Abs, in Encyclopædia Britannica online
- Obituary: Hermann Abs
- Newspaper clippings about Hermann Josef Abs in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW