Stern & Loebl Families Database
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Dr Ernst Ernest Henry STERN
1891 - 1963 (71 years)-
Name Dr Ernst Ernest Henry STERN Birth 8 Sep 1891 Montabaur, Germany Gender Male Death 19 Feb 1963 London, UK Person ID I102 My Genealogy Last Modified 1 Mar 2024
Father Heimann STERN, b. 14 Dec 1854, Meudt, Germany d. 24 Jan 1909, Montabaur, Germany (Grave No 62) (Age 54 years) Relationship natural Mother Clara Klara SIMON, b. 6 Oct 1862, Buedesheim, Germany d. 25 Jun 1935, Montabaur, Germany (Grave No 62) (Age 72 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1880 Family ID F56 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Margarete Margaret Anna FRANKENSTEIN, b. 1 Jun 1887, Berlin, Germany d. 15 Oct 1974, London, UK (Age 87 years) Marriage 1924 Children 1. Gabriele Gabsy Charlotte STERN, b. 16 Jul 1925, Berlin, Germany d. 16 Apr 2022, Edgware, Middlesex, England (Age 96 years) [natural] 2. Living Family ID F76 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 1 Mar 2024
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Notes - He was an economist of international reputation who in 1919 was called to the position of Referent in the Reichsernaehrungsministerium (Ministry of Food) in Berlin. Later, he joined the Statistische Reichsamt where he worked on the reform of statistics with regard to international trade and the problem of cartels. He published a book in 1923, "Der Hoechtpreis", a study of the difficulty of price restrictions in times of inflation, which became the standard work at this time.
In 1924 he became head of economics at the Reichskreditgesellschaft AG, the German Central Bank in Berlin. He was dismissed in 1933 shortly after the Nazi party came to power on account of his published political views about the Nazi party. He was imprisoned but his wife had contacts within the German government and eventually managed to secure his release.
He had a friend at the British Embassy in Berlin who arranged for the whole family to leave Germany and emigrate to London in 1933. Sir Henry Strakosch, Chairman of the board of the Economist (publication) and the Union Corporation Ltd, a leading gold-holding company in London, appointed him economic advisor.
Winston Churchill, asked his friend Sir Henry Strakosch for help in finding out what was happening in Germany and Ernest Stern was recruited, under a veil of secrecy, to estimate Germany's abilities to re-arm and re-equip itself. According to Churchill's book "The Second World War" Volume 1, page 177f, Ernest Stern "reported precise and lengthy detail that the German war expenditure was certainly round about a thousand million pounds sterling a year" and this was then reported to the House of Commons.
Ernest Stern helped to arrange the emigration from Nazi Germany of his brothers, Albert and Fritz, saving their lives. He also gave a home to Alfred (Freddy) Stern, his cousin's son, who arrived in England on the Kindertransport to subsequently find all his immediate family had been murdered in concentration camps.
In London, he became an acknowledged expert on gold and currency problems. On reaching retirement age at Union Corporation in 1956, he was then still recruited to become an economic adviser to the company, Rio Tinto, where he served for another four years.
Sources: Obituary by Dr Hans Neufeld in AJR Information, April 1963 and Mr Alfred Stern
Buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery, Golders Green No: WLD-78A-4
- He was an economist of international reputation who in 1919 was called to the position of Referent in the Reichsernaehrungsministerium (Ministry of Food) in Berlin. Later, he joined the Statistische Reichsamt where he worked on the reform of statistics with regard to international trade and the problem of cartels. He published a book in 1923, "Der Hoechtpreis", a study of the difficulty of price restrictions in times of inflation, which became the standard work at this time.