Stefanos Streit

Stefanos Streit (; 6 April 1837, in Patras – 13 April 1920, in Athens) was a Greek jurist, banker and politician. He served as chairman of the National Bank of Greece and Minister of Finance. Biography He was born on 6 April 1837 in Patras as the son of the German philhellene and military officer Johannes Alexander Streit, who, after his resignation from the army, settled in Patras. After completing his general education in his home town he studied law in Athens and Leipzig and when he returned to Greece in 1861 he was appointed a magistrate. In 1865 he was promoted to the rank of appellate, however the same year he resigned and practised law in Patras until 1872, when he was appointed director of the branch of the National Bank of Greece in Lamia. Later, he was appointed as inspector of the provincial branch of the bank and then he was transferred to the legal department. In 1875, he was nominated lecturer of the University of Athens and the next year he became professor of constitutional and international law. In 1880 he was appointed by the Greek government as its representative in the mission to Munich to settle the debt of the Greek state to Bavaria. In 1889 he was elected assistant manager of the National Bank, while he was also chairman of the board of the National Insurance and the Corinth Canal Company. In 1896 he became Chairman of the National Bank, a position that he held until 7 December 1910, when he resigned for health reasons.