Heinrich Troeger
 Heinrich Troeger    (central banker) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 4 March 1901 Zeitz, Germany | |||||||||||||
| Died | 28 August 1975 (Age 74) Bad Nauheim, Germany | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Breslau, University of Würzburg, University of Halle | |||||||||||||
| Party | Social Democratic Party of Germany | |||||||||||||
German politician who attended the first and fourth Bilderbergs, then became Vice President of the Bundesbank
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Heinrich Troeger was the Minister of Finance of Hessen[1] who attended the first and fourth Bilderberg meetings, then became Vice President of the Bundesbank .
Education
Troeger was born the son of a district medical councilor. He studied law and political science in Breslau, Würzburg and Halle, which he completed in 1922 with a doctorate in law.
Career
Troeger had been a member of the SPD since 1922. During the period of the Weimar Republic, he was a member of the Lower Silesian Provincial Parliament and the provincial committee there from 1929 to 1933.
Since 1925, Tröger was government assessor at the district council offices in Euskirchen and Dortmund. Since 1926 he was mayor of the city of Neusalz an der Oder. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, he was removed from his post in 1933.
From 1934 to 1945 he worked as a specialist lawyer for foreign exchange and tax law in Berlin. During the Second World War, among other things, he was employed during this time as a trustee for the "enemy" business assets of the Canadian manufacturer Massey-Harris, who maintained production facilities for agricultural machinery in Germany and occupied France.[2]
After the Second World War, he was mayor of the city of Jena in 1945/46, in the Soviet occupation zone. He moved to West Germany and settled in Hesse. In 1947 he was appointed ministerial director in the Hessian Ministry of Finance and from 1947 to 1949. 1950/51 he was ministerial Director in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Finance and at the same time deputy to Minister Heinrich Weitz.
From January 10, 1951 to September 26, 1956, he was Hessian State Minister of Finance in the state government led by Prime Minister Georg-August Zinn. He was also a member of various supervisory boards. From 1954 until his resignation in 1958 he was a member of the Hessian state parliament.
Tröger was president of the Hessian Central Bank in 1956/57 and Vice president of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 1958 to 1969. From 1964 to 1966, he headed a commission named after him on the reform of the Financial Constitution.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1954 | 29 May 1954 | 31 May 1954 | Netherlands Hotel Bilderberg Oosterbeek | The first Bilderberg meeting, attended by 68 men from Europe and the US, including 20 businessmen, 25 politicians, 5 financiers & 4 academics. |
| Bilderberg/1956 | 11 May 1956 | 13 May 1956 | Denmark Fredensborg | The 4th Bilderberg meeting, with 147 guests, in contrast to the generally smaller meetings of the 1950s. Has two Bilderberg meetings in the years before and after |
