Hans Tietmeyer, Banker Who Led German Transition to Euro, Dies at 85
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Hans Tietmeyer, president of the Bundesbank in the 1990s. CreditOed/ullstein bild, via Getty Images
FRANKFURT — Hans Tietmeyer, the central banker who led Germany’s transition from the deutsche mark to the euro despite reservations about a single European currency, died on Tuesday. He was 85.
The Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, announced his death but did not give the cause or say where he died.
As president of the Bundesbank from 1993 until 1999, Mr. Tietmeyer was the most powerful central banker in Europe and a leading advocate of policies that prized price stability above all else. But in contrast to some of his more dogmatic predecessors, he was also known as a politically savvy pragmatist capable of compromise…
Hans Tietmeyer, Banker Who Led German Transition to Euro, Dies at 85
