Johnsbury, Vermont with key employees of manufacturer Weidmann Electrical Technology at a Weidmann factory there.
Mr Weidmann said the currency discussion was a distraction by politicians from their "real challenges".
Yet his worldview is probably closer to Mr Weidmann's than it appears at first.
The real question is the extent to which Mr Weidmann has the support of the German government.
At the same time, the market was responding to rumors that Deutsche Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann was resigning.
Perhaps the denials from Angela Merkel, Jens Weidmann et al will leave room for a compromise on Friday.
But if Mr Weidmann is minded to take pre-emptive action, he will soon have the means to do so.
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He replaced Jens Weidmann, a long-serving adviser with an economics PhD who took over at the Bundesbank in May.
"The reform course in France seems to have floundered, " Germany's Jens Weidmann said.
Weidmann had turned to GE Capital to help it finance a revamp of an abandoned printing plant in Urbana, Ohio.
In a phone call from Athens that day, Mr. Ackermann pitched the proposal to Ms. Merkel's chief economic adviser, Jens Weidmann.
The President of the German Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, warned that the bloc was "constantly mutualising risks and weakening the agreed rules".
Bundesbank-watchers say Mr Weidmann's comments were directed at his domestic audience in Germany, which fears that the ECB is losing its bearings.
But Jens Weidmann, its 44-year-old president (pictured with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor), belongs to a new generation of German central bankers.
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Governments created the crisis, and governments should resolve it, argues Mr Weidmann.
The German position is that of Jens Weidmann, head of the Bundesbank.
The head of the Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said that "if Italy stays the course on its reforms, it is on a good path".
The head of the Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, told the judges that financial markets had already "partly priced in" a delay to the ESM's introduction.
"For Greece the consequences would be much more grave than for the rest of the eurozone, " said Jens Weidmann, head of Germany's central bank.
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The bank's president, Jens Weidmann, was left to issue a statement that he regarded the bond purchases as "tantamount to financing governments by printing banknotes".
In his defence of classical monetary policy in the German city of Freiburg, Mr Weidmann also attacked the idea of shifting away from inflation targeting.
"You cannot tell the Greeks that this is a German government offer, " Mr. Weidmann said, fearing the already-widespread impression that Mr. Ackermann was acting as a go-between.
On the very same day of the Deutsche Bank report Herr Dr. Jens Weidmann, president of the Bundesbank, gave a speech entitled Money Creation and Responsibility.
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Mr Draghi comes from a different tradition from Mr Weidmann.
With bond markets so febrile, Mr Weidmann's comments were ill-timed.
The legislation won't come into force until next year, but since it is designed to strengthen his hand, Mr Weidmann would probably be able to get his own way before then.
ECONOMIST: The Bundesbank should not exert its new clout too zealously
The GE team began its energy treasure hunt at Weidmann by shutting down everything at the factory and searching for things like lights unnecessarily left on, compressed air leaks and running water.
Mr Weidmann said the period in the 1980s and 1990s during which central banks around the world had been made independent had heralded a period of "great moderation" during which inflation fell.
Although Mr Weidmann has just one vote on the 23-strong governing council at the European Central Bank, his voice as Bundesbank president carries great weight among other eurozone policy makers, especially from northern countries.
These include Markus Kerber, formerly Mrs Merkel's chief economic adviser and now director of the Federation of German Industry, and Jens Weidmann, once Mrs Merkel's chief financial adviser and now head of the Bundesbank.
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