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Hans Kloss (28 November 1905 – 16 March 1986) was an Austrian lawyer and bank manager. Kloss was born in Vienna in 1905. After studying law and political science, he worked for

Österreichische Luftverkehrs AG Austrian Airlines AG, often shortened to Austrian, is the flag carrier of Austria and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. The airline is headquartered on the grounds of Vienna International Airport in Schwechat where it also maintains its hu ...

and between 1939 and 1945 for the

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. After the

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, he became a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance in 1946, and worked there in providing services to the Austrian finance industry and as a delegate to the

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. He also worked in the Finance Committee of the

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and for the

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In 1962 Kloss moved into the private banking sector as Director General of Genossenschaftlichen Zentralbank AG (today

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). In 1969, he was appointed Director General of Austria's central bank

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, and served as its president from 1973 to 1978. He was cremated at

Feuerhalle Simmering Feuerhalle Simmering is a crematorium with attached urn burial ground in the Simmering (Vienna), Simmering district of Vienna, Austria. It lies at the end of an alley, directly opposite Vienna Central Cemetery's main gate. Description Opened on ...

, where also his ashes are buried.

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* * 1905 births 1986 deaths Governors of Oesterreichische Nationalbank Austrian business executives Lawyers from Vienna 20th-century Austrian lawyers 20th-century Austrian businesspeople Burials at Feuerhalle Simmering {{Austria-business-bio-stub