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    The Reichsbank (German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌbank] ; lit. 'Bank of the Reich') was the central bank of the German Empire from 1876 until the end of Nazi Germany in...
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    Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. He was a fierce critic of his country's post-World...
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    Reichsbank building (in German the Haus am Werderschen Markt) is a building in Berlin, Germany, originally built in 1934–38 to house the Reichsbank,...
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  • in 2020 currency) between 1937 and 1939. To mask the acquisition, the Reichsbank understated its official reserves in 1939 by $40m relative to the Bank...
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    national unemployment rate. Economist Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, created a scheme for deficit financing in May...
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    basis,: 827  and also confidentially reported foreign debt data to the Reichsbank.: 829  By contrast, the Bank of France only gathered balance sheet information...
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    March 1857 – 20 November 1923) was a German lawyer and president of the Reichsbank (German central bank) during the hyperinflation of 1921–1923. Havenstein...
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    served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs (1938–1945) and president of Reichsbank (1939–1945). During his incumbency, he oversaw the mobilization of the...
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    into freefall on the currency market. Foreign currency reserves at the Reichsbank dwindled. As hyperinflation took hold, the cabinet of Cuno resigned in...
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    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...
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    the Third Reich. In April and May 1945, the remaining reserves of the Reichsbank – gold (730 bars), cash (6 large sacks), and precious stones and metals...
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  • implemented by Hjalmar Schacht, the newly reappointed President of the Reichsbank. As conditions worsened, the British government contemplated retaliatory...
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    exchangeable at a 1:1 rate for Reichsmarks but then discounted by the Reichsbank this created secret monetary expansion without formally renouncing the...
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  • was set up in May 1933, just after appointment of Hjalmar Schacht as Reichsbank President in March 1933, as a front for purchases from four German armament...
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  • the state, which was then sold or, in the case of bullion, sent to the Reichsbank. For example, in 1945 the Hungarian Gold Train was established to transport...
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    the remainder of 1921-22.: 237  From August 1921, the president of the Reichsbank, Rudolf Havenstein began a strategy of buying foreign currency with marks...
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    who did not vote or who voted against. In August 1934, Hitler appointed Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht as Minister of Economics, and in the following...
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    their short-term money from Germany as confidence spiraled downward. The Reichsbank lost 150 million marks in the first week of June, 540 million in the second...
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    transport of 4,944 boxes with 198 tonnes of gold to officials of the German Reichsbank and the German Government used it to purchase commodities and munitions...
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  • industry by financing raw material imports. It was liquidated in 1945. Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht founded the Goldnotenbank, the first name of...
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  • shoes, toys, wedding rings and gold teeth destined for the vaults of the Reichsbank. German Concentration Camps Factual Survey List of Holocaust films The...
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  • shareholders' equity. Nevertheless, the bills were discounted by the Reichsbank. This way, the Reichsbank financed public building projects. In the wake of the Great...
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  • official, working for the German Reichsbank from 1931 until the end of World War II. He was director of Germany's Reichsbank during World War II and basically...
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    on 5 February 1924 with a capital of 7.5 million guilders, after the Reichsbank had ceased operations in the Free City on 31 December 1923. Its investors...
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    successor construction was started in 1938 by Heinrich Wolff for the Reichsbank and was completed in 1951 for the Deutsche Bundesbank. Herzog-Max-Palais...
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  • issue Rentenmark currency notes following the collapse of the private Reichsbank's Papiermark currency. The Rentenbank reserves consisted of mortgages against...
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    billion marks. The highest value banknote issued by the Weimar government's Reichsbank had a face value of 100 trillion marks (1014; 100,000,000,000,000; 100...
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  • economy, such as Gustav Krupp (of the conglomerate Krupp) and former Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht. At the London Conference, the question of which...
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    economy, such as Gustav Krupp (of the conglomerate Krupp AG), former Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht, and economic planners Albert Speer and Walther...
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    accumulated by the Nazis: Gold Is Where You Hide It: What Happened to the Reichsbank Treasure? (1956). Between 1952 and 1954, Moss joined up with his friend...
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