Met with then-President Theodore Roosevelt as well as famous U.S. banker J.P. Morgan
during a 1905 visit to America with board members of Dresdner Bank,
which Schacht worked for at the time.
Spoke English fluently
Had an IQ of 143
Completed his Ph.D. studies in Philosophy in 1899
His parents originally decided to name him Horace Greeley Schacht, but
a family grandmother insisted on a Danish first name. The two sides
compromised, resulting in the full name Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht.