Hjalmar von Schacht

Hjalmar von Schacht [r]: First President of the Reichsbank during the rearmament of Germany, resigning in 1930, returning there and to the Ministry of the Economy in 1934, resigning all substantive posts by 1939 and being an opponent of Hermann Goering's economic policies; later imprisoned by the Nazis but tried and acquitted at the Nuremberg Trials ^[e]

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Hjalmar von Schacht was president of the Reichsbank during the rearmament of Germany, resigning in 1930, before the Nazis took power. In 1934, he returned to the post and also became Reich Minister of the Economy, but resigned again in 1939, as an opponent of Hermann Goering's economic policies. He is credited with using military spending to bring much of the German hyperinflation under control.

Imprisoned in Dachau Concentration Camp on suspicion in the 20th of July plot against Adolf Hitler, he was still tried by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg), acquitted, tried by German courts, and eventually winning an appeal in 1948.