Misa Telefoni Retzlaff (born Hermann Theodor Retzlaff, 21 May 1952) is a former Samoan Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance (2001-2011), and deputy leader of the Human Rights Protection Party. Retzlaff is of German-Swedish-Samoan descent, having inherited his German ancestry from his paternal grandfather. His name "Telefoni", is the name that was given by the Samoan community in the early twentieth century, to his grandfather, when he arrived in the German colony, as a public servant of the postal services, to introduce the telephone to the country. He was educated at Marist Brothers in Apia and King's College in Auckland, New Zealand. He studied law at the University of Auckland, graduating in 1974. After returning to Samoa, he studied to become a Certified Public Accountant, gradua