Helmut Schlesinger

Helmut Schlesinger ( born September 4, 1924 in Penzberg ) was from 1991 to 1993 President of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Education and military service

After education at high schools in Wasserburg am Inn and Augsburg Schlesinger made ​​between 1943 and 1945 military service with the mountain. When the war ended he was a lieutenant of the reserve.

In 1946 he began studying economics at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University in Munich, where he graduated in 1948 as a graduate economist. With a dissertation on the management audit in public administration 1951, he was Dr. oec. doctorate.

Bundesbank

In 1952, Schlesinger joined as a consultant for national accounts in the Department of Economics and Statistics of the former Bank of German States. In 1956 he became Head of economic analysis and projections, 1964 Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics and 1972 member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank and chief economist.

In 1980 he became Vice- President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, in charge of Economics and Statistics. In 1991 he was succeeded Karl Otto Poehl as Bundesbank president. His term of office was limited due to his age from the outset to 26 months, as the usual age limit is 68.

Schlesinger was replaced by Hans Tietmeyer 1993.

His signature is found on all DM notes, which were printed in 1980-1993.

Others

In the euro - crisis Schlesinger had one of the first to raise the issue of the so-called Target 2: About this previously unnoticed clearing system, the Bundesbank other euro central banks must grant loans that now are growing rapidly. Also Hans- Werner Sinn, pointed to Target 2.

In April 2012, Schlesinger said in an interview on the euro crisis and the Greek financial crisis. Among other things he said:

"Currently, the ECB does not conduct monetary policy in the strict sense, but only anti-crisis policy. When allocating to 1000 billion euros for three years at the same interest, they asked for eight days, she does it because one, two, three countries need it. "

Honors

Schlesinger holds honorary doctorates of the Universities of Frankfurt ( 1981), Göttingen (1981 ) and St. Gallen ( 1993). In 2001 a public tribute to the " golden" anniversary Doctor, University of Munich ( 2001).

  • Federal Cross of Merit (1970 )
  • Great Federal Cross of Merit (1977 ) with star (1984) and shoulder belt ( 1991)
  • Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic journalism ( 1981)
  • Hessian Order of Merit (1990 )
  • Royal. North Star Medal Commander's Cross, First Class (1991 )
  • Honorary Professor at the German University of Administrative Sciences
  • Bernhard Harms Medal of the Institute for World Economics, Kiel ( 1992)
  • Raiffeisen Schulze- Delitzsch Gold Medal (1993 )
  • Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1993 )
  • Great Silver Medal of the Republic of Austria (1993 )
  • Grand Cross of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1993 )
  • Means of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (1993 )
  • Alexander Rustow Medal of Community Action Social Market Economy ( 1994)
  • Prestigious awards of the State of Indonesia ( 1999)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2006)
Hans-Werner Sinn Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Order of the Polar Star Honorary title (academic) Hermann von Dechend Hjalmar Schacht Hans Luther Karl Blessing Karl Klasen Otmar Emminger Jens Weidmann Integrated Authority File
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