Hermann von Dechend

Hermann Friedrich Alexander Dechend, 1865 by Dechend, ( born April 2, 1814 Marie Werder, West Prussia, † April 30, 1890 in Berlin ) was the first President of the Reichsbank, the Imperial German Real Councillor and member of the Prussian State Council.

Family

He was the son of the lawyer Theodor Dechend in Marienwerderstraße and was married to Adelgunde Wilke ( born November 20, 1823 in Berlin, † 1915). His daughter Susanne (1859-1929) married in 1884 in Berlin later General of Infantry of Kathen Hugo ( 1855-1932 ).

Due to its merits Dechend was collected on 12 June 1865 in the Prussian nobility.

Life

After studying law and Kameralwissenschaft at the Universities of Berlin and Bonn Dechend first worked at the country and city court, then at the High Court in Marie Werder, in 1837 as a government clerk. In 1841 he was Regierungsassessor and made 1844/45 a techno- industrial training in Berlin. In 1846 he was active in Westphalia to the government in Arnsberg and 1847 in Münster. In 1848 he came to the main bank, but soon after that he was appointed head of the " Prussian loan association ". In 1849 he was Councillor in the Ministry of Commerce. From 1851 onwards he was a member of the Main Board of the Bank " Prussian Bank". In 1853 he was privy Oberfinanzrat. In 1863 he rose to vice president and finally in 1864 as President of the Prussian Bank. He held until 1875 president. After the Empire Dechend was in the years 1876 to 1890 the first President of the newly founded German Empire Bank, which took over the organization of the Prussian Bank for the creation of a central bank.

The Prussian Bank owed ​​Dechend essentially their development of a simple central bank to one of the leading central banks in Europe. Thus Herrmann was instrumental von Dechend out to create the organizational conditions for the subsequently formed from the Prussian Bank Reichsbank. The banknotes of the Prussian Bank from 1867 to 1874 and the German Reichsbank notes 1876-1884 bear Dechends signature.

From 1867 to 1869 was Dechend as deputy of the Reich and Free Conservative Party ( RFKP ) a member of the Prussian House of Representatives, and from 1872 until his death (1890) he was a member of the Prussian House of Lords. In 1884 he became a member of the State Council. Since 1877 he was an imperial Real privy.

He was a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn since 1835.