Hans Fischböck
Hans Fischböck (24 January 1895 – 3 July 1967) was an Austrian banker who was the economics minister and minister of finance of Austria and the finance minister of Nazi-occupied Netherlands. He escaped to Argentina after the Second World War, only returning to Europe after the granting of a general amnesty. He was born in Geras, Austria, and studied in Vienna. From 1915 to 1918 he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War and was deployed to the front in the south of the County of Tyrol. After the war, he gained a doctor of law degree in Vienna in 1919 and then worked in the Austrian banking system. In March 1938, after the ''Anschluss'' of Austria by Germany, Fischböck was appointed economics minister and, in May 1938, he was appointed minister of finance and took measures for the expropriation of Jewish property. At the April 1938 parliamentary election, he was elected as a deputy to the '' Reichstag'' from Ostmark and retained this seat until the fa ...
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