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Hermann Josef Abs

1901 - 1994

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Hermann Josef Abs (15 October 1901, Bonn – 5 February 1994, Bad Soden) was a leading Nazi banker and advisor to Chancellor Adenauer. He was a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank from 1938 to 1945, as well as of 44 other companies, including IG Farben. As the most powerful commercial banker of the Third Reich, he was, according to economic journalist Adam LeBor, "the lynchpin of the continent wide plunder". The Allies arrested him in January 1946; however, British intervention got him freed after three months, and German courts later dropped all charges. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Josef Abs is the 542nd most popular businessperson (down from 497th in 2019), the 4,808th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,515th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 542 out of 847. Before him are Walter Wild, Jim Marshall, Mo Ibrahim, Anders Hejlsberg, Eike Batista, and Richard Hilton. After him are Arianna Huffington, Claire Williams, Andrew Planche, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Earl Tupper, and Bob Lazar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 262. Before him are Heðin Brú, Marieluise Fleißer, Igor Ilyinsky, Gerhard von Rad, Paul Yü Pin, and Cecília Meireles. After him are Narve Bonna, Aleksandr Andronov, Sam Spiegel, Ernesto Chaparro, Frank Churchill, and Valerian Pidmohylny. Among people deceased in 1994, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 263. Before him are Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Homa Darabi, Alberto Natusch, Lilly Scholz, Norberto Menéndez, and Augusts Voss. After him are Jan Dobraczyński, Willi Eichhorn, Paul Anderson, Ion Lăpușneanu, József Háda, and Fernando de Santiago.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 4,811 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Hax (1900), Francis Buchholz (1954), Sarah Kirsch (1935), Tomislav Marić (1973), Hartwig Gauder (1954), and Ulrich Wehling (1952). After him are René Kollo (1937), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Ulf Timmermann (1962), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Christiane Nord (1943), and Rudolf Harbig (1913).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Germany

Among businesspeople born in Germany, Hermann Josef Abs ranks 53. Before him are Susanne Klatten (1962), Albert Ballin (1857), Adolf Merckle (1934), Reinhard Mohn (1921), Ernest Oppenheimer (1880), and Marcus Goldman (1821). After him are Josef Neckermann (1912), Katerina Tikhonova (1986), Kim Dotcom (1974), Bernard Knubel (1872), Steve Shirley (1933), and John Peter Zenger (1697).

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