Alexander Kreuter

Alexander Kreuter (29 November 1886 in Speyer – 27 September 1977) was an influential German business lawyer and banker during the Nazi occupation of France.

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.

During the Second World War, Kreuter, a member of the General SS, was a German financial official in Nazi-occupied Paris, working in the foreign intelligence service headed by Walter Schellenberg in Office VI of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) of the Nazi SS.

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.

Kreuter had been a contributing member of Hitler' famous SS corp, but despite this Draper put him on his personal staff.

[10]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.