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Dr Ernst Ernest Henry STERN

Male 1891 - 1963  (71 years)


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  • Name Dr Ernst Ernest Henry STERN 
    Birth 8 Sep 1891  Montabaur, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 19 Feb 1963  London, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I102  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2024 

    Father Heimann STERN,   b. 14 Dec 1854, Meudt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1909, Montabaur, Germany (Grave No 62) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Clara Klara SIMON,   b. 6 Oct 1862, Buedesheim, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jun 1935, Montabaur, Germany (Grave No 62) Find all individuals with events at this location (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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Oct 1974, London, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage 1924 
    Children 
     1. Gabriele Gabsy Charlotte STERN,   b. 16 Jul 1925, Berlin, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 2022, Edgware, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years)  [natural]
     2. Living
    Family ID F76  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2024 

  • 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


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