Schacht
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Schacht is a German
surname, derived from the common noun meaning "mine shaft".
Those bearing it include:
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
surname, derived from the common noun meaning "mine shaft".
Those bearing it include:
- Hjalmar SchachtHjalmar SchachtDr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was a German economist, banker, liberal politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic...
(1877-1970), German financial expert during the time of Hitler - Joseph SchachtJoseph SchachtJoseph Schacht, born in Ratibor, 15 March 1902, died in Englewood, 1 August 1969, was a British-German professor of Arabic and Islam at Columbia University in New York. He was the leading Western scholar on Islamic law, whose Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence is still considered a centrally...
(1902-1969), Jewish Islamic scholar - Henry SchachtHenry SchachtHenry Schacht is an American businessman, a former chairman and chief executive officer of Cummins Diesel , and later CEO of Lucent Technologies. He assumed the latter role in a transitory capacity upon Lucent's spinoff from AT&T, and served from 1995 to 1997. Mr...
(born 1933/'34), American businessman - Richard SchachtRichard SchachtRichard Schacht is an American philosopher, currently professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a renowned expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, is the editor of International Nietzsche Studies and is currently Executive Director of the North American...
(born c. 1940) , American philosopher - Chris SchachtChris SchachtChristopher Cleland Schacht is a former Australian politician and member of the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party . He was born in Melbourne and educated at the University of Adelaide and Wattle Park Teachers College.Schacht's political career started as a state party official...
(born 1946), Australian politician