Person
Hjalmar Schacht
German banker; President of the Reichsbank in 1923 to 1930 and again from March 1933; acquitted at Nuremberg.
- Dates
- 1877–1970
- Also known as
- Schacht
- Wikidata
- Q151691
- Life 1877–1970
- leads Election fund of February 1933 20 Feb 1933 – 5 Apr 1933
Trial of the Major War Criminals
- Acquitted by International Military Tribunal: not guilty on the indictment 1The Soviet member of the Tribunal recorded his dissent: he held that Schacht should have been convicted.
Connections 6
leads
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Election fund of February 1933
20 Feb 1933 – 5 Apr 1933
Primary record
2345
Turner says Schacht administered the fund, and the bank ledger is headed with his name. Schacht, interrogated in 1945, said he had nothing to do with the account and played the role of cashier at the meeting itself.
acquitted by
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International Military Tribunal
1 Oct 1946
not guilty on the indictment
Primary record
1
The Soviet member of the Tribunal recorded his dissent: he held that Schacht should have been convicted.
involved in
- Bad Harzburg rally of 11 October 1931 spoke without being announced Scholarship & press 2
- Meeting of 20 February 1933 asked the guests for the fund Primary record 36
- Trial of the Major War Criminals acquitted Primary record 1
appears in
- Affidavit of Georg von Schnitzler (EC-439) named as the host Primary record 6
Timeline 3 dates
- 1877–1970 Hjalmar Schacht
- 20 Feb 1933 – 5 Apr 1933 Hjalmar Schacht leads Election fund of February 1933
- 1 Oct 1946 Hjalmar Schacht acquitted by International Military Tribunal
Proof 6 sources
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Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Volume 22: Tuesday, 1 October 1946 (the Judgment on the defendants, and sentences), Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 1 Oct 1946.
Primary record
The Tribunal finds that Schacht is not guilty on this Indictment
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German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985.
Scholarship & press
delivered it during the subsequent weeks to Schacht, who administered it
The only real surprise at the Bad Harzburg gathering came when Hjalmar Schacht, whose participation had not been announced in advance, mounted the rostrum
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Interrogation of Hjalmar Schacht, 20 July 1945 (document NI-406, extract), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy), 20 Jul 1945.
Primary record
I just played the role of cashier or financial treasurer at the meeting itself.
And the amount which I collected was 3 million marks.
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Entries in the account "National Trusteeship" in the files of Delbrueck, Schickler and Co. (document NI-391), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy).
Primary record
National Trusteeship Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Berlin-Zehlendorf
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Entries in the account "National Trusteeship" in the files of Delbrueck, Schickler and Co. (document NI-391), p. 568: the closing balance, Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy).
Primary record
Balance carried over 2,021,404.50
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Affidavit of Georg von Schnitzler, 10 November 1945 (document EC-439), Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, 10 Nov 1945.
Primary record
After Hitler had left the room, Dr. Schacht proposed to the meeting the raising of an election fund of—as far as I remember—RM 3,000,000.
I remember that Dr. Schacht acted as a kind of host.
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