Hermann josef abs biography of williams

  • Hermann Josef Abs. Hermann Josef Abs (15 October 1901, Bonn – 5 February 1994, Bad Soden) was a leading Nazi banker and advisor to Chancellor Adenauer.
  • HERMANN JOSEF ABS, director of the powerful Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt and a personal adviser to Germany's Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard (see cover).
  • This is a book review of a Willi Hennig biography by Michael Schmitt.

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    Deutsche Bank

    German banking and financial services company

    Not to be confused with Deutsche Bundesbank, Deutsche Postbank, or Deutsche Bahn.

    Deutsche Bank AG[a] (German pronunciation:[ˈdɔʏtʃəˈbaŋkʔaːˈɡeː]ⓘ, lit. 'German Bank') is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.

    Deutsche Bank was founded in 1870 in Berlin. From 1929 to 1937, following its merger with Disconto-Gesellschaft, it was known as Deutsche Bank und Disconto-Gesellschaft or DeDi-Bank.[3]: 580  Other transformative acquisitions have included those of Mendelssohn & Co. in 1938, Morgan Grenfell in 1990, Bankers Trust in 1998,[4] and Deutsche Postbank in 2010.

    As of 2018, the bank's network spanned 58 countries with a large presence in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.[5] It is a compone

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    Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski.Das Londoner Schuldenabkommen: Die Regelung der deutschen Auslandsschulden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2005. 484 S. EUR 54.80 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-486-57580-4.

    Reviewed by Alfred C. Mierzejewski (Department of History, University of North Texas)
    Published on H-German (July, 2006)

    Walther Rathenau: "Die Wirtschaft ist das Schicksal"

    Writing economic history without recourse to economics has a strong tradition. Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski perpetuates that tradition. She intentionally discusses an important (though neglected) event, the 1951-53 London agreement on West Germany's international debts, without considering its economic aspects (pp. 18, 20). The author employs documentary sources located at the Bundesarchiv Koblenz, the Political Archive of the utländsk Office (Auswärtiges Amt) in stad i tyskland, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Sankt Augustin, the Public Record Office in London and the U.S. Na

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    How Hermann Abs created a capitalist Magna Carta

    The following is an excerpt from Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's brilliant book Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy.

    This section is my brutal edit of the original text. The book paints a more broadly and easily understood picture; inom firmly recommend reading the book.

    The bit below is all about how the German banker Hermann Abs suggested a sort of capitalist Magna Carta, a ramverk for capitalists to cut up the modern world and rule it as they liked. At the start of the excerpt, there is mention of ICSID, which is the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

    The excerpt shows what happened before the World finansinstitut invented and proliferated a mechanism that allowed corporations to sue states. Most of Kennard and Provost's book clearly shows how this mechanism is abused to allow corporations to not only enjoy make billions of USD but to force huge amounts of people to live in squalor

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