The Raven of Zürich: The Memoirs of Felix Somary by Felix Somary
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Overview: Felix Somary, known in his lifetime a the 'Raven of Zurich' for his dire but accurate predictions of the future, led a life of action as banker, social thinker, diplomat and relentless battler for the integrity of currencies a the key to democratic survival. Born in imperial Vienna in 1881, he was trained in the renowned Vienna school of economics, and then had an adventurous banking career with the Anglo-Austrian Bank amid the Balkan intrigues that preceded the First World War. Serving with honour in the German adminis-tration of occupied Belgium, he warned in vain against the dangers of rampant nationalism and unrestricted submarine warfare. In the inter-war period, from his pivotal position as a highly-regarded Zurich private banker, Somary prophesied and lived through a vastly destructive inflation and the Great Depression, and their political aftermath, Hitler and the Second World War. Called to an exceptional diplomatic mission by the Swiss Government, he spent the Second World War in Washington, again predicting accurately the break-up of the wartime coalition, the era of Cold War and the dangers of world inflation. Until his death in 1956, Somary was as unsparing of others as he was strict with him-self: his memoirs abound in astringent portraits of statesmen such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Walther Rathenau, economists from John Maynard Keynes to Joseph Schumpeter, and a pride of bankers, including Hjalmar Schacht and several Rothschilds. Somary' intellectual brilliance, tough-minded realism, and an almost uncanny intuition for the ground well of those cataclysms that have shaped our century, make his memoirs vivid reading, and his warnings a urgently relevant now a when they were written.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs



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