FOLIO I · DENKER
Born on 13 February 1871 in Czernowitz (Galicia, today Chernivtsi), the son of Jewish parents in the crown land of Bukovina.[1]
Studies in law at the universities of Czernowitz and Vienna; a student of Carl Menger.
Doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) at the University of Czernowitz in 1893, following studies in law at the universities of Czernowitz and Vienna.[1]
Court practice and judicial traineeship in Czernowitz from 1895 to 1897.[1]
Studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna from 1897 to 1899; a student of Carl Menger.[1]
Joined the k.k. (Imperial-Royal) Austrian Trade Museum for export promotion in 1899; secretary from 1900, deputy director from 1905 to 1913.[1]
Moved to the Ministry of Trade, Trade Policy Section, in 1913.[1]
Deputy director of the Association of Moravian Sugar Factories in Olmütz (today Olomouc) and Vienna in 1918.
Head of the Credit and Currency Section at the Ministry of Finance from 1919 to 1924; co-founder of the central bank (Notenbank).[1]
After his retirement, General Council Member and President of the Anglo-Austrian Bank in Vienna in 1924 and 1925.[1]
Seats on the supervisory boards of various banks and industrial companies from 1925 to 1929.[1]
Director of Dynamit Nobel AG in Preßburg (today Bratislava) from 1931.[1]
Fled to his wife Eugenie, who was already staying in Switzerland; he died barely a year later.
He studied law at the universities of Czernowitz and Vienna and is explicitly described in the biography as a pupil of Menger.[1]
Hermann Schwarzwald in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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