Friedrich William Christians (* 1. May 1922 in Paderborn; "† 24. May 2004 in Duesseldorf) was a German banker.

Christians was born as a son of an engineer and participated in the Second World War as a soldier, last in East Prussia. After study of the jurisprudence and graduation 1949 Christians occurred 1951 Deutsche Bank. Since Christians had originally the intention, to become, he believed diplomat only in a short guest role with the German bank. 1954 he was already appointed by the legendary Hermann Josef Abs the bank manager. 1965 it was appointed as the executive committee, starting from 1967 tidy member of the board. 1976 he became speaker of the executive committee of the German bank, until 1985 together with Dr. Wilfried Guth, afterwards with Dr. Alfred gentleman living. Up to then Deutsche Bank regularly two equal speakers of the executive committee possessed. From 1990 to 1997 he was a chairman of the supervisory board of the bank. From 1975 to 1979 it functioned as a president of the Federal association of German banks. Christians was the last member of the board of the German bank, who had its job at the king avenue, before the executive committee took its seat completely in Frankfurt/Main. Christians lived in sea shrubs.

Its activities for the expansion of the trade with the states beyond the iron curtain brought in the call for it, the secret minister of foreign affairs of the country to be. Thus it obtained the beard he business together with Otto Wolff of Amerongen between man man and the USSR, with whom pipeline tubes were exchanged for natural gas supplies.

Christians occurred with the consultation of Minister of Finance Theo Waigel for the monetary union of the two German states against the conversion course 1:1 the ostmark to DM.

1994 carried Christians considerably for memory at the 400. Establishment day of the University of king mountain had taught, to the Immanuel Kant.

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