Eduard Mosler

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Eduard Mosler (born July 25, 1873 in Strasbourg , † August 22, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German banker. He was initially a manager at Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and then worked for Disconto-Gesellschaft . In 1929 he led the negotiations for the merger with the Deutsche Bank and was in this board member. Between 1934 and 1939 he was the company's board spokesman.

Life

His father Christian Mosler was a secret senior government councilor in the Prussian Ministry of Trade and Industry. His mother Katharina was the daughter of the Prussian Justice Minister Heinrich von Friedberg . He himself married Else Rhein. The marriage remained childless.

Mosler studied law in Berlin and Bonn . He was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. After graduating, he first entered the Prussian judicial service. In 1902 he switched to banking and became in-house counsel for the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft. Two years later he rose to the management of the company. He was a business owner there until 1910. During this time he became known through the dispute with the Prussian state over the nationalization of the mining company Hibernia AG . As a representative of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft, he prevented the state from gaining control of the majority of the shares. This only happened in the context of the First World War in 1916. In 1910 the Society of Friends joined. The following year he moved from the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft to the management of the Disconto-Gesellschaft. As before, Mosler was a personally liable partner there. One focus of his activity was the stock exchange business.

During the merger negotiations with Deutsche Bank, he conducted preliminary negotiations with Oscar Schlitter from Deutsche Bank in 1929. After the merger, Mosler became a board member.

After the beginning of National Socialist rule , the board spokesmen Oscar Wassermann and Georg Solmssen , who came from a Jewish family, were pushed out of office. As the longest-serving member of the board, Mosler took over the post of board spokesman for Deutsche Bank in 1934. He was personally exposed to attacks because of his Jewish ancestry.

He managed to fend off the criticism of the big banks expressed in parts of National Socialism. But he had to accept restrictions on Deutsche Bank's freedom of movement. During the National Socialist era, Mosler tried to defend the private sector against state interference. But he never went so far as to criticize government measures directly. He was of the opinion that politics could only be influenced to a small extent anyway. Until 1939 he was also on the supervisory board of IG Farben , his function was replaced in 1940 by Hermann Josef Abs .

In April 1939 he changed from leading the board to chairing the supervisory board.

In addition to his actual professional activity, Mosler was also politically active. In 1911 he became chairman of the “Stamp Association.” From this association of Berlin banks and bankers he made an influential organization of banking policy. In this context he played an important role in standardizing the business conditions of the banks in 1913. Mosler was also active in the Berlin Chamber of Commerce, in the Central Committee of the Reichsbank and in the Central Association of the German Banking and Banking Industry . For a long time he was chairman of the board of the Berlin stock exchange .

Eduard Mosler has lived in the country house built on his behalf on the Schwanenwerder island in Berlin since 1913 . The Evangelical Academy in Berlin uses it today as a training facility.

tomb

He is buried in the Evangelical Churchyard Nikolassee .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Gall et al. a .: Deutsche Bank 1870-1995, Munich, 1995 p. 333
  2. ^ The banker: Hermann Josef Abs; a biography by Lothar Gall, p. 102

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SURNAME Mosler, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, spokesman for Deutsche Bank (1934–1939)
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1939
Place of death Berlin