Sparkasse Bochum

Sparkasse Bochum
Main building at Dr.-Ruer-Platz
Country	Germany
Seat	Dr.-Ruer-Platz 5 44787 Bochum
legal form	Institute of public right
Bank code	430 500 01
BIC	WELA DED1 BOC
founding	1838
Association	Savings Banks Association Westphalia-Lippe
Website	www.sparkasse-bochum.de
Business data 2019
Total assets	7.509 billion euros
insoles	5.541 billion euros
Customer credit	5.299 billion euros
Employee	1.108
Offices	49
management
Board of Directors	Thomas Eiskirch , chairman
Board	Jürgen Hohmann (Chairman), Yvonne van den Hövel-Meyer, Andreas Wilming
List of savings banks in Germany

Opening of the art exhibition 2019 with Gudrun Weißpfennig (painter) and Jürgen Hohmann (CEO)

The Sparkasse Bochum is a public savings bank based in Bochum in North Rhine-Westphalia . Your business area is the city of Bochum. It is represented throughout Bochum with branches and ATMs.

organization structure

The Sparkasse Bochum is an institution under public law. The city of Bochum is responsible for this. Sparkasse Bochum is a member of the Savings Banks Association Westphalia-Lippe (SVWL). The legal basis is the Savings Bank Act of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the statutes issued by the Board of Directors of Sparkasse Bochum. The organs are the administrative board and the executive board.

Business direction and business success

The Sparkasse Bochum operates the universal banking business as a savings bank . In the network business, it works with the Landesbausparkasse , Westfälische Provinzial , DekaBank and Deutsche Leasing, as well as the subsidiaries S-Immobiliendienst and S-Versicherungsdienst.

Sparkasse Bochum had total assets of EUR 7.509 billion in the 2019 financial year and customer deposits of EUR 5.541 billion. According to the 2019 Sparkasse Ranking List, it ranks 34th in terms of total assets. It has 49 branches / self-service locations and employs 1,108 people.

In Bochum, the Sparkasse is the market leader and the most important lender for the regional economy.

Sparkasse Bochum received the "very good" award from the IMK research institute in 2010 for its customer service. In 2019, Sparkasse Bochum was repeatedly awarded the "Excellent" rating by the research institute in the verified customer service category.

Since March 2014 the Sparkasse has been listed in the Route of Industrial Culture , Themed Route Bochum .

Work and education

With 1,108 employees, the Sparkasse is one of the largest employers in Bochum. With around 100 trainees in the professions of bank clerks , office clerks and IT clerks , it is the largest trainer for the banking industry in Bochum. Sparkasse also offers trainees an extra-occupational bachelor's degree at the Sparkasse University in Bonn .

Social Commitment

Sparkasse Bochum has had its own foundation for the promotion of culture and science since 1985, with endowment capital of 10 million euros. The main task is to beautify the cityscape. The Kemnade Treasury , the Sparkasse Bochum's monetary history museum on Kemnade House , houses one of the largest collections of unusual money boxes and means of payment from all over the world. In the sense of its common good-oriented mission, the Sparkasse supports the commitment of citizens, associations and initiatives in the sporting, cultural, scientific and social fields with donations and sponsoring amounting to millions. Outstanding events that are organized or sponsored by Sparkasse Bochum include: a. the Stadtparkfest, the Sparkassen Giro , the Sparkassenfestival OpenFlair, the Zeltfestival Ruhr (ZFR) , the Sparkassen football festival , the family day in the Kemnade Treasury and much more. As a contribution to economic education, it supports schools and students with over 100 student internships, application training, and teaching materials every year For teachers and students of all types and forms of school from the Sparkassen-SchulService and the stock market simulation game . In February 2013, the Sparkasse and the event manager Sascha Hellen jointly announced that they would terminate the existing sponsorship contract.

history

Sparkasse Bochum was founded in 1838. The aim was to enable the population - at that time approx. 4,000 inhabitants - to save for times of need and for old age and to receive loans.

Business development

At the end of the first financial year, the deposits at the Sparkasse amounted to 250 thalers , one silver groschen and three pfennigs . The savings interest at that time was three and a half percent. Loans were not yet in great demand. The loan interest charged for this was between four and five percent. A good 30 years later, the savings were 1,546,000 thalers. The Sparkasse ensured the economic development of its customers and the region with financing , processing of payment flows and the provision of cash. In the course of the influx of workers through industrialization and the gradual integration of the surrounding rural communities into the Bochum urban area, the number of Bochum's residents continued to grow steadily. First in 1904 Hamme, Hofstede, Grumme and Wiemelhausen were incorporated. Weitmar, Hordel, Riemke, Bergen and Altenbochum were added in 1926. Gerthe, Werne, Langendreer, Laer, Querenburg, Stiepel, Sundern and Linden-Dahlhausen followed in 1929.

In order to enable citizens to carry out their financial transactions close to their home, the number of Sparkasse branches grew at the same time. After the Sparkasse of the city of Bochum was always located in the town hall in the early years, it opened its first branch on Kortländer in 1911 - where it is still today.

The Giro era began in 1913: the Sparkasse began checking and giro transactions together with current account transactions. In 1922 it was decided to merge the banking department of the municipal savings bank with the Amtsbank GmbH (the independent banking department of the then Amtsbank Bochum) and the independent savings banks of the incorporated districts to form Kommunalbank AG, today's Sparkasse Bochum. The First World War brought business to a standstill. After its end, savings were slowly made again. Due to inflation , however , the real value of the deposits sank immeasurably and was only stabilized again with the introduction of the Rentenmark (1923) and the Reichsmark (1924).

In 1929 the company moved into the "Iron", the modern bank building designed by the architect Wilhelm Kreis , which was partially destroyed in the Second World War . After its end, reconstruction began in Bochum. Only around 80,000 of the previously almost 300,000 living spaces in the urban area were still available; business premises in the city center were almost completely destroyed. The currency reform in 1948 with the conversion to the German mark brought about the economic miracle . At the same time, the number of inhabitants in Bochum increased, not least due to the influx of refugees, and promoted reconstruction. This involved a corresponding need for financing, which stimulated the lending business. Savings rose and more and more home loans were approved.

In order to bring the idea of ​​savings closer to the citizens, Sparkasse Bochum introduced new forms of savings from 1951, e.g. B. collection savings, savings groups, school savings and supra-regional PS lottery savings (today savings lottery of the savings banks). At the end of the 1950s, cashless payment transactions found their way into the Sparkasse. Among other things, the associated simplification of wage payments by companies to their workers led to the fact that new branches were opened near large factories and collieries. By the end of the 1960s, the Sparkasse Bochum had 30 branches, in 1971 there were already 35. With the incorporation of Wattenscheid into Bochum in 1975, the local savings bank was also merged with the Sparkasse Bochum. The Sparkasse Bochum has had 45 branches in the Bochum city area since 1982.

main building

The building of the former Bochumer Kommunalbank was designed by the architect Wilhelm Kreis in 1925 and built between 1927 and 1929 by the architect Bernhard Wielers . It has served as the headquarters of Sparkasse Bochum since 1929. The building suffered war damage during World War II. The reconstruction between 1946 and 1949 was again headed by Bernhard Wielers. In the years 1954 to 1955, according to plans by the architect Clemens Korn, the ticket hall was added, which was redesigned in 1988 by the architecture firm SSP SchürmannSpannel . The Sparkassen-Galeria was established between 1997 and 1999, initially under the direction of Stjepan Cadez. In 1997 the architects Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck initially took over the project control and the planning of the interior design. In 1998, after Cadez left, Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck took over the overall planning and construction management until completion. The four oversized hands made of marble from Carrara were by the sculptor Michael Schwarze in 1983, another work of art in the form of a curved line was created by the artist François Morellet in 1988.

literature

• Hans Hanke : 175 years of Sparkasse Bochum. Sketch for the history of a social bank. In: Bochumer Punkte , No. 31, February 2014, pp. 3-19

Web links

Commons : Sparkasse Bochum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sparkasse Bochum
• Sparkasse real estate service
• Sparkasse Bochum in the company database of BaFin
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~29~12908

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
2. ↑ Sparkasse Ranking List 2019 (PDF; 199 kB, 9 pages) In: Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. DSGV.de, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Articles of Association (PDF; 20 kB)
4. ↑ Sparkasse Ranking List 2019 (PDF; 199 kB, 9 pages) In: Finanzgruppe Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband. DSGV.de, May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Awards | Sparkasse Bochum. Retrieved February 4, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Press Center Sparkasse Bochum
7. ↑ Kommunalbank Bochum (Sparkasse) ( Memento of the original dated May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 August 10, 2013 
8. ↑ Historical tour of Bochum Sparkasse Bochum, accessed on January 29, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 49.6 "  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 9.8"  E