Clemens Plassmann

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Clemens Plassmann (born February 2, 1894 in Warendorf ; † April 26, 1970 in Düsseldorf ) was a German bank manager and for a long time a member of the boards of Karstadt and Deutsche Bank . He is the son of the astronomer Joseph Plassmann (1859-1940) and the father of the librarian and library scientist Engelbert Plassmann .

Life

After studying in Freiburg and Münster , Plassmann took part in the First World War. He was a soldier in the 13th Infantry Regiment and only completed his studies with a doctorate after the end of the war. jur. from. In 1921 he joined the Dortmund branch of the Barmer Bankverein . After the merger of Barmer Bankverein with Commerzbank in 1932, he moved to Berlin, where he was in charge of the restructuring of Rudolf Karstadt AG from 1932 to 1940. At the mediation of the bank manager Karl Kimmich , Plassmann joined the board of directors of Deutsche Bank in Berlin on July 1, 1940 , of which he was a member until the end of the war. As a staunch Catholic , he was critical of National Socialism from the start. Soon he came into contact with various resistance groups . He was personally friends with Hans Koch , who was executed in 1945 . Via the Ettal Abbey , he found access to ecclesiastical resistance groups that had come together around the then abbot Angelus Kupfer (1900–1951) and the Ettal cellarer P. Johannes Albrecht . Contact was made with, among others, Josef Müller ("Ochsensepp").

After the end of the Nazi dictatorship, Clemens Plassmann played a key role in the reconstruction of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank , which was reintegrated into Deutsche Bank in 1957. From 1957 to 1960 he was again on the board of directors of Deutsche Bank .

With a keen interest in art and a wide range of interests, he distinguished himself throughout his life as a patron of art and science and as a poet and genealogist. In 1955, on his initiative, the Association for the Promotion of the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn e. V. , which has since supported the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute founded by Theodor Klauser in the same year . In 1964 he set up a physics and mathematics scholarship foundation in memory of his son, who died young.

Under the pseudonym C. Palm-Nesselmanns ( anagram of his name) he published multi-line shake rhymes , partly in Latin. A poem is dedicated to Hans Koch , "who died on April 24, 1945 as one of the last Gestapo victims for Germany" (Stuttgart 1967). The Latin chronogram and occasional poems of Chronogrammata et versiculi give an insight into the breadth of his circle of friends and acquaintances. In the third issue (1965), for example, there are verses for the writers Ernst Jünger and Rudolf Alexander Schröder , for ancient scholars and bankers, for the Nobel laureate in chemistry Adolf Butenandt and many others.

Works

  • The German prisoners of war in France 1914–1920. Contributions to the handling and expansion of international prisoner-of-war law. Reich Association of Former Prisoners of War, Berlin 1921.
  • with Martha Plassmann: Ottilie Plassmann geb. Summer. Chats and stories. Munster 1934.
  • Chronogrammata et Versiculi. Laupp, Tübingen 1949.
  • as editor: Johann Friedrich Joseph Sommer . The bridal letters of Westphalus Eremita. Steffen, Limburg an der Lahn 1950.
  • Heinrich Sommer 1841–1863. Life and environment. Scherpe, Krefeld 1951.
  • New Year's sayings 1942–1955. Scherpe, Krefeld 1955.
  • My dear Franz! Letters to a Westphalian student 1796–1799. An attempt at family history. Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1956.
  • as C. Palm-Nesselmanns: Schüttelreime. 2nd Edition. Scherpe, Krefeld 1957.
  • as C. Palm-Nesselmanns: Vocal Studies. Games, examples, building blocks. Scherpe, Krefeld 1959.
  • Ancestors and grandsons of the astronomer Joseph Plassmann. A memorial sheet for the 100th anniversary of his birth. Bosche, Dortmund 1959.
  • Chronogrammata et Versiculi. Altera Pars. Laupp, Tübingen 1959.
  • as C. Palm-Nesselmanns: Schüttelreime. New episode. Scherpe, Krefeld 1960.
  • Chronogrammata et Versiculi. Tertia Pars. Laupp, Tübingen 1965.
  • as C. Palm-Nesselmanns: Schüttelreime. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart 1967.
  • Brushwood from the Steigerwald. Self-published around 1969.
  • Oratiunculae 1951-1961.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for the promotion of the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn e. V .; accessed on February 21, 2014.
  2. ↑ Scholarship Foundation for Mathematics and Physics ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on February 21, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stiftungen.stifterverband.info
personal data
SURNAME Plassmann, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Warendorf
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1970
Place of death Dusseldorf