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Hjalmar Schacht

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The Resume

    (January 22, 1877-June 3, 1970)
    President of the German Reichsbank (1923-30,1933-35,1937-39)
    German Minister of Economics (1934-37)

Why he might be annoying:

    He converted to fascism after reading ‘Mein Kampf' (1930).
    He persuaded leading industrialists to fund the Nazi party.
    He organized a letter-writing campaign by industrialists urging Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor.
    He told a reporter, ‘The Nazis cannot rule. But I can rule through them' (1932).
    As Minister of Economics, he financed Nazi Germany's secret and illegal re-armament program.
    He said ‘The Jews must realize their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time' (1935).
    The US prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials called him ‘the most dangerous and reprehensible of all types of opportunists, someone who would use a Hitler for his own ends, and then claim, after Hitler was defeated, to have been against him all the time.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    As currency commissioner, he successfully ended the hyperinflation that was destroying the German economy (1923).
    He encouraged the construction of the Autobahn.
    He denounced ‘unlawful activities' against the Jews (1935).
    He resigned as Minister of Economics to protest Hitler's excessive military spending.
    He was accused of taking part in an assassination plot against Hitler and imprisoned at Dachau (1944).
    He was found not guilty of war crimes at the Nuremburg Trials (1946).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 30 Votes: 63.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 77 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 26 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 18 Votes: 38.89% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 69 Votes: 78.26% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 49 Votes: 83.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 80 Votes: 66.25% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 39 Votes: 64.10% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 65 Votes: 72.31% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 85 Votes: 74.12% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 85 Votes: 76.47% Annoying