Hans-Joachim Caesar

Hans -Joachim Caesar ( born May 17, 1905 in Neisse (Silesia, now in Poland Nysa ); † after 1980 in Cologne) was a lawyer and banker. Caesar was from 1931 to 1945 worked for the Reichsbank, and was last Reichsbank Director and from 1940 to 1944 German Bank Commissioner in France.

Life

Caesar studied in Marburg, Münster and Kiel law and began working for the Reichsbank in Berlin in December 1931. On 1 January 1935 he was appointed Reichsbankrat, and was a member of the Board. His responsibilities were, among others, the administration of U.S. companies and assets during the Second World War. Some authors see it in this context as a kind of "right hand" of the then Vice President of the Reichsbank, Emil Puhl, the de facto led the business of the Reichsbank for the nominal president of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics Walther Funk.

From 1940 to 1944 he was German Bank Commissioner in France. In this role, Caesar was responsible for the supervision of representative offices of allied banks such as Barclays and Chase Manhattan Bank in Paris.

After 1945 Caesar lived in Cologne and was, inter alia, Supervisory Board member of several German banks. At times, he was also a representative of the German 1977 spectacularly bankrupt bank in Ticino house White Credit.

Works

• The exchange law in banking practice. Legal issues f purchase and Verwaltg d change. Publisher officials Press, Berlin 1937 (font kingdoms of the State Bank; Vol. 2)