Alexander Kreuter

Kreuter studied law and political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München from 1906 and was awarded a doctorate by Walther Lotz in 1909. He was a civil commissioner for the province of Leuven in occupied Belgium during World War I. In 1918, he was advisor to the Armistice Commission and the delegation for the Peace Treaty of Versailles for economic and financial matters.

In 1919, he was commissioner for raw materials and products of the "Dictatorial Economic Committee". In 1922, he became a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council. He negotiated the German-Dutch financial agreement of 11 May 1920 with the Dutch government. After leaving the civil service, he founded the trust administration for the German-Dutch financial agreement GmbH ("Tredefina"), which he headed for over fifty years. For his services as head of the Tredefina, he was appointed by the Dutch government to command the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Kreuter was the Berlin representative of the New York investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. and for many years personally liable partner of the "Deutsche Kreditsicherungs-KG in Berlin, later Düsseldorf, which received a 10 million dollar loan from Dillon, Read & Co. Co. was founded in the 1920s."

Kreuter was married to the art historian Helga Kreuter-Eggemann, whom he met in occupied France when she was working for the Nazi looting organisation Reichsleiter Rosenberg's (ERR) stealing art in France for the Nazis from 1941 to 1944.

After the Allied victory over Nazi Germany, the US military government employed Kreuter despite his being listed in the records of the SS as a contributing member. American newspapers were critical of Kreuter's involvement. In his nationally syndicated column, Drew Pearson wrote in 1947:When Dillon Read's General Draper was in Germany after the war ended, one of the first things he did was to appoint to his staff a former Dillon Read representative in Germany, Dr. Alexander Kreuter. Kreuter had been a contributing member of Hitler' famous SS corp, but despite this Draper put him on his personal staff.James Stewart Martin, Chief of the Decartelization Branch for Military Government in Germany after World War II, said in his book All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System, that the director of the financial division, Jack Bennet, had questioned Kreuter's employment and requested a stop order on Kreuter's travels until his SS record could be cleared up. Kreuter claimed that "his connection with the storm trooper organisation had been purely nominal and for business reasons only."

After his death in 1977, Kreuter was buried in the former chapel of the dead in Waidring.