February 13, 2012, 05:55 CET
- Dr Karl Blessing
- * 5 Feb 1900 - Enzweihingen (Württemberg)
- † Apr 1971 - Rasteau (South of France)
Positions outside the central bank
1925
Graduate in Business Administration
1930 - 1934
Head of Division at the Bank for International Settlements, Basel (seconded from the Reichsbank)
1934 - 1937
General Specialist in the German Ministry of Economics (seconded from the Reichsbank)
1941 - 1945
Member and Chairman of the Executive Board of Kontinentale Öl AG Berlin
1948 - 1957
Member of the Executive Board of Margarine Union AG, Hamburg
Positions at the central bank
1 Sep 1920
Joins the Reichsbank
1 Jun 1937
Member of the Executive Board of the Reichsbank
1 Feb 1939
Dismissed from position as Member of the Executive Board of the Reichsbank for political reasons
1 Jan 1958 - 31 Dec 1969
President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
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