Max Graf Thurn
 Max Graf Thurn    (economist, civil servant) | |
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| Born | 5 December 1910 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 29 June 1991 (Age 80) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford, University of Cologne |
| Religion | Catholic |
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
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1961 | 21 April 1961 | 23 April 1961 | Canada Quebec St-Castin | The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe. |
