Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht

Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (b. 1877) was born in Tinglev, a Danish-speaking part of the German Empire. His parents originally decided on the name Horace Greeley Schacht, in honor of the American journalist Horace Greeley. However they yielded to the insistence of the Schacht family grandmother, who firmly believed the child's given name should be Danish.

Schacht was a financial wizard. He became one of the directors of the Reichsbank in 1916. Later, after Germany won the Great War, he amassed a vast fortune.

Schacht was appointed ambassador to the United States in the 1930s. On Remembrance Day, 1941, as the Entente powers were beginning to assert themselves and war seemed inevitable, Schacht made a short, eloquent speech reaffirming the alliance between the United States and Germany.