Carl Bergmann (Secretary of State)


Carl Bergmann was a German banker and diplomat.

Biography

After studying law, which he finished with the doctorate, he became in 1900 Gerichtsassessor in Berlin before he changed the following year to the Deutsche Bank. From this bank he was sent from 1901 to 1902 to Konstantinopel for the management of the Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie. 1911 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Deutsche Bank. 1914-1918 he worked as a financial delegate at the German Embassy in The Hague.
After the end of World War I he was since 1919 representative of the German Reich in the Reparation in Paris. In July 1919 he was next to Stephan Moesle undersecretary in the Finance Ministry and also chairman of the war load commission. He held until September 1921 these offices and was thus one of the closest collaborators of the Ministers of Finance Matthias Erzberger and Joseph Wirth.
He then returned to Deutsche Bank as a member of the board. From 1924-1927 he was co-owner of the bank Lazard Speyer-Ellissen in Frankfurt am Main. Even as a member of the Board of the Reichsbahn he took part in the negotiations reparations. 1930 actually. From 1931 until his death in 1935 he was the trustee of the Danatbank.

Appreciation

In his book "Réflexions sur le franc et sur quelques autres sujets" John Maynard Keynes reminds the German diplomats Bergmann and bay and writes about Bergmann:
The American historian Alfred C. Mierzejewski describes in his history of the Reichsbahn the continued efforts by Carl Bergman, not to let fall the Reichsbahn in the hands of the Nazis.

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