Albert Wolter

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Albert Wolter (born March 19, 1893 in Magdeburg , † July 5, 1977 in Marbach SG , Switzerland) was a German real estate agent , financier and project developer .

Life

Albert Wolter grew up in Magdeburg as the son of a wealthy nursery owner and was confronted with real estate business at an early age. In 1911 he began a commercial apprenticeship in a feed and fertilizer wholesaler, which he then also joined as an employee. At the First World War Wolter took over as shock troops officer part (1916), before settling in the 1919 Rhineland -oriented and the broker profession turned. In the same year he founded a brokerage office in Cologne, which he converted into "Albert Wolter Immobilien KG" on January 1, 1923. Until he left the company in 1970, he was a personally liable partner , most recently together with his sonAlbert called Bert Wolter . His company quickly developed into a leading brokerage house in the Rhineland. The company still operates as a family-run real estate company today and, according to its own statements, is Cologne's oldest existing brokerage company.

In Cologne, Wolter also brokered the financing of new buildings (mortgages). For this purpose Wolter set up the "Landhaus-Baugesellschaft" and the "Wolter'sche Grundstücks GmbH". He also acted as an expert in real estate issues and as an administrator.

Wolter in the RDM

Even before the First World War, Cologne was the seat of two professional organizations for brokers and financiers, on the one hand the "Association of German Brokers' Associations" founded there in 1904, in which Wolter was accepted as a member after only one year, and on the other hand the one that had existed since 1907 "Cologne Broker Association". As a result of the war, but also because there was no Reich-wide organization, an umbrella association was re-established in Cologne in 1924, the Reich Association of German Brokers for Real Estate, Mortgage and Finance eV (RDM) with Wolter's participation. The first directory of members lists 392 brokers, after just a few weeks there are 1056 in 27 and after a year 1517 in 42 local associations. The Berlin-based association quickly established itself as the leading interest group in the real estate industry in Germany. Wolter himself was initially not a member of the board. Rather, the association reflects, which was irrelevant before 1933, the religious affiliation of the freelance real estate agents and financiers: according to the "National Socialist German Reich Brokers Association" in the spring of 1933, up to 80 percent of its members were Jews. After the Jewish board members had resigned their offices by April 13, 1933, the RDM was brought into line on May 6, 1933, and the RDM was dissolved at the end of the Second World War in 1945

Albert Wolter was also not one of the seven men who founded the "Ring Deutscher Makler für Immobilien, Mortgage und Finanzierungen eV" (RDM) as a follow-up organization in Bacharach on December 18, 1948 . However, this was apparently due to the travel problem as a result of the division of Germany into occupation zones . Because at the 1st Broker's Day after the war, which also took place in Bacharach from July 6th to 9th, 1950, Wolter was elected as the second deputy chairman of the association, which is now based in Hamburg. From his election at the Cologne Brokers' Day from June 19 to 22, 1958 to the conference on September 4 to 8, 1962 in Berlin, he then headed the RDM as President during a difficult phase. It was necessary, especially after numerous negative reports due to fraudulent behavior within the brokerage class, to work out basic rules and a kind of professional profile for prospective brokers. Shortly after his election, Wolter demanded that brokers be subject to the commercial code as merchants. It is not acceptable for her books to be "presented to a police officer for examination like a junk dealer". After his resignation he was elected one of the honorary presidents. In addition, Wolter was a board member and honorary member of the Cologne-Bonn district association and the regional association of the RDM

Cologne real estate exchange

In 1927, members of the RDM, including Wolter, founded the “Cologne Stock Exchange”, which renamed the “Real Estate and Mortgage Exchange” around 1930 and was integrated as a department at the Chamber of Commerce in Cologne. The aim of the same was to improve contacts and cooperation between the brokers. After the Second World War, the institution was re-established with 168 members initially. Wolter acted as stock exchange manager, was a member of the board of the Cologne commodity exchange and was a member of the stock exchange committee of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Further association memberships

Albert Wolter was also a member of the supervisory board of the International Association of Real Estate Agents and Property Managers (Paris) as well as a board member and most recently an honorary member of the Cologne House and Landowners Association. From 1948 to 1951 he was appointed to the municipal planning committee for the reconstruction of the city of Cologne and was also the initiator of the City Köln e. V. , the first citizens' initiative to rebuild Hohe Strasse and Schildergasse . In particular, he had "successfully campaigned for a full development of the ground floors around Hohe Straße" and "fought for the preservation of this street as a bazaar street". The realization of a well-developed airport ( Fall Wahn ), which he knew of its importance for the economic development in Cologne, was an emphatic concern for him.

Private

From his 1st marriage to Katharina Wolter, b. Sauer, was born the named son Albert, called Bert, Wolter, who in 1971 handed over the father's company to Claus Mosler .

Besides his work as a real estate businessman Albert Wolter ten years managed many a 230 acre large estate in Koenigswinter in the former Victory Circle , where he joined the cattle and beekeeping dedicated. He spent the last years of his life at his retirement home in Switzerland .

Honors

literature

  • Anne Wiktorin: 75. A traditional association turns 75. The chronicle for the anniversary of the RDM. (Ed. Ring Deutscher Makler, Bundesverband eV, Hamburg). Ad media publisher. Cologne 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kölner Stadt Anzeiger . No. 154 of 7 July 1977, p. 24
  2. ↑ a b c d Kölnische Rundschau No. 97a of April 27, 1958, p. 4 Today's entrepreneurs. Albert Wolter
  3. ↑ Cologne Commercial Register, HR A 768
  4. ↑ Aly von Götz: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945. Volume 1. Oldenbourg. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-486-58480-6 . P. 151f Doc. 40.
  5. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , No. 141 of June 23, 1958, p. 5
  6. ↑ Kölner Stadt Anzeiger . No. 154 of 7 July 1977, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Wolter, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German real estate agent and project developer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1977
Place of death Marbach SG , Switzerland