Alfred Blinzig

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Alfred Blinzig (born January 16, 1869 in Stuttgart , † October 4, 1945 in Bayreuth ) was a German bank director. From 1920 to 1924 he was a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank AG and from 1932 to 1939 chairman of the supervisory board of Philipp Holzmann AG .

Life

After an apprenticeship and five years of work at the Württembergische Vereinsbank and stays abroad from 1892, he came to Deutsche Bank's head office in Berlin in 1899 . There he conducted international financial transactions in Arthur von Gwinner's department . In 1902 he received power of attorney. In 1916 he found the catchy short name Mitropa for the newly founded "Central European Sleeping Car and Dining Car Company" .

Blinzig was first sent to the United States in 1903 . His name is closely linked to the start of Deutsche Bank's involvement in the United States. During the First World War , he wrote letters to the branch manager there, reporting personal information such as the death of his father in 1915 and the illnesses of his children. In 1927 in New York he succeeded in convincing influential circles of the validity of the German arguments for the restitution of the German property confiscated in the USA, which led to the Settlement of War Claims Act of March 10, 1928 (so-called "Release Bill"). led and prepared the later revision of the Dawes Plan .

As chairman of Philipp Holzmann AG, he was after the seizure of power of the Nazis responsible for the removal of all Jewish employees from the board of the construction company, which he tried to prevent mid-1933 or at least delay, but transposed as "inevitable" at the latest 1934th

Villa Blinky

Villa Blinzig, today Mathematical Institute

His villa from 1910 at Arnimallee 2 was one of the first in the newly emerging Berlin villa suburb of Dahlem . It also had a separate residential building for the servants as well as a large garden, which was laid out on the grounds at Arnimallee 4 and 6, which had remained undeveloped for this purpose.

The villa still stands today and is used by the Mathematical Institute of the Free University . In 1974 the new building for the mathematics department (now the Mathematical Institute) was built on the site of the former garden.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Biography of Alfred Blinzig, with photo ( memento from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Historical Society of Deutsche Bank
  2. ↑ Christopher Kobrak: Deutsche Bank and the USA (2008)
  3. ^ Lothar Gall: The Deutsche Bank, 1870-1995 (1995)
  4. ↑ Manfred Pohl: Philipp Holzmann: History of a Construction Company 1849-1999 (1999)
personal data
SURNAME Blinky, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank director
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1945
Place of death Bayreuth