„Um Minister zu sein, dafür braucht man nicht viel, aber... Präsident der Reichsbank, das ist schon schwieriger.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
zitiert nach Hans-Otto Meissner: Junge Jahre im Reichspräsidentenpalais, 1988, S. 139.
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Hjalmar Schacht
Geburtstag: 22. Januar 1877
Todesdatum: 3. Juni 1970
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Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht war ein deutscher Politiker, Bankier, von 1923 bis 1930 und von März 1933 bis Januar 1939 Reichsbankpräsident sowie von 1934 bis 1937 Reichswirtschaftsminister.
Schacht gehörte zu den 24 im Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof angeklagten Führungspersonen des nationalsozialistischen Regimes und wurde am 1. Oktober 1946 in allen Anklagepunkten freigesprochen.
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„Dieser Mann ist die Folge des Versailler Diktats, und ich fürchte, man wird noch mit Entsetzen von ihm hören.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
Anfang der 1920er Jahre über Adolf Hitler, zitiert nach Hans-Otto Meissner: Junge Jahre im Reichspräsidentenpalais, 1988, S. 139 books. google.
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„Wenn der Kapitalismus nicht imstande sei, die Arbeitermassen der Welt zu ernähren, habe er keine Existenzberechtigung, ist eine andere, höchst beachtliche Feststellung des Finanzgenies.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
Hans-Otto Meissner: Junge Jahre im Reichspräsidentenpalai', 1988, S. 139 books. google.
„I have never believed in war. It is a crime against humanity whether you win or lose. I just read an article in this magazine I have in my hands that one day the moon will fall on the earth, but it is my feeling that until then, we should try to make the world a better place to live in.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
To Leon Goldensohn (9 June 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
„There was only the choice between Communism and Hitler, and I will tell you why Hitler won. People will not give up religion, rights, freedom of personality, the opportunity to develop by individual effort - which includes private property. And the other reason for Hitler's winning is that if a whole people is treated as the Germans were, everyone will say, 'Are we worse people than others? Are we of a minor race?' Just as every single individual needs and must have self-respect, just as every family is proud of decent traditions, so every nation wants to maintain her individual manner, culture, language, and customs. It was in these respects that Communism failed. The Communists said that God was nonsense and stupidity and preached internationalism without maintaining the natural national feelings of a nation.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
To Leon Goldensohn (10 March 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
„The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties. … Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience. … The Versailles Dictate cannot be an eternal document, because not only its economic, but also its spiritual and moral premises are wrong.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
On the Treaty of Versailles, as quoted in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (1946) by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, p. 754.
„One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!“
— Hjalmar Schacht
To Leon Goldensohn (27 January 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
„Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
As quoted in Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (1947) by the International Military Tribunal, Vol. 5, p. 134.
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„The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time. We wish to keep our people and our culture pure and distinctive, just as the Jews have always demanded this of themselves.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
Speech in Koenigsberg (18 August 1935), as quoted in The Trial of the Germans : An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (1997) by Eugene Davidson, p. 235.
„I was never in the army - I never had a uniform - I was never a soldier. I detest uniforms because they make one unfree. There is an old quotation that goes something like this: 'Your mind will be trained well, but confined to Spanish boots.' That quotation is very apt. It signifies how narrow the military mind becomes.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
To Leon Goldensohn (18 May 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.
„It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
As quoted Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (1946) by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, p. 746.
„My so-called foreign friends do neither me nor the situation nor themselves any good when they try to bring me into opposition to the allegedly impossible National Socialist economic theories and declare me to some extent the protector of economic reason. I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuhrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.“
— Hjalmar Schacht
Speech in Leipzig (4 March 1935), as quoted in The Trial of the Germans : An Accgfhbgount of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (1997) by Eugene Davidson, p. 234.
