Max Graf Thurn

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Person.png Max Graf Thurn  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(economist, civil servant)
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Born5 December 1910
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died29 June 1991 (Age 80)
NationalityAustrian
Alma materUniversity of Oxford, University of Cologne
ReligionCatholic
Austrian aristocrat and economist. In exile after the Anscluss. After WW2, returned to Austria as civil servant. Attended Bilderberg/1961.

Count Max Thurn (born Max Graf Thurn-Valsassina) was an Austrian economist.[1]

Background

Max Thurn was a son of Franz Count Thurn-Valsassina and Elsa Countess von Lützow, he had three siblings. With the Abolition of the Nobility Act of the Republic of Austria in 1919, Thurn lost the right to hold his title of count ('Graf').[1]

Education

Thurn attended elementary school in Zwettl and the humanistic gymnasium in Kalksburg. He studied economics at the University of Oxford for two years from 1928 with a diploma of political economics. After that, he studied business administration at the University of Cologne and passed the examination for a diploma in business administration in 1933. He studied economics in Cologne with Erwin von Beckerath and Alfred Müller-Armack, graduating with a doctorate in 1935.[1]

Career

Subsequently, he was employed as a secretary at the Association of Austrian Industrialists in Vienna. After the Anschluss of Austria, Thurn, who was of Catholic denomination, emigrated to Argentina in 1939, where he found employment in the economy. Thurn was involved in the emigrant organization Comite Austriaco. He married Margarita Zorraquin-Ybarguren in Buenos Aires in 1946, they had three children.[1]

Post-war

Thurn returned to Austria in 1950 and was an official in the Austrian Ministry of Finance from 1951 until retirement. He was first a press officer, then from 1956 to 1960 an emissary member of the Board of the World Bank. From 1962 he worked as a consultant at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Zaire, then in 1967 as a consultant in Laos, from 1968 again in Vienna as a ministerial councillor.[1]

He attended the 1961 Bilderberg meeting.

Thurn was awarded the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1969.[1]


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/196121 April 196123 April 1961Canada
Quebec
St-Castin
The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe.
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References

  1. a b c d e f .Thurn, Max, in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933. Band 1: Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben. München : Saur 1980, S. 761