Alwin Münchmeyer the Younger

Heinrich Alwin Münchmeyer (born March 19, 1908 in Hamburg ; † September 24, 1990 ibid) was a German entrepreneur , owner of the company " Münchmeyer & Co. ", President of the German Industry and Trade Congress (1958–1962) and the Federation of German Banks (1968–1975) and holder of numerous other honorary positions in German business.

life and work

Alwin Münchmeyer came from an old Lower Saxony, from 1816 Hamburg family of merchants and bankers . He was the son of the entrepreneur and banker Hermann Rudolf Münchmeyer (1875–1950) and Elisabeth Waitz (1885 – after 1962). In order to distinguish him from his grandfather Alwin Münchmeyer , the name Alwin Münchmeyer the Younger has become naturalized.

Alwin Münchmeyer graduated from the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg at Easter 1926 . Münchmeyer continued the family tradition with his training as a businessman.

He married on August 18, 1934 in Hamburg Gertrud Nolte (born November 9, 1914 in Hamburg; † June 6, 2007), the daughter of the Hamburg lawyer Hans Nolte (1884-1940) and Elisabeth Siemsen (1890-1927). The Münchmeyer couple had four daughters, including their daughter Birgit Breuel , and their son Hans Hermann Münchmeyer , a private banker and management consultant.

In 1937, Alwin Münchmeyer took over his father's commercial and private banking company " Münchmeyer & Co. " in Hamburg. After more than 120 years of company history, Alwin Münchmeyer d. In 1968 he started trading and banking and became, among other things, personally liable partner of the private bank " Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co. ", which was merged in 1969 .

Grave slab family grave cemetery Ohlsdorf

In the course of his professional career he took on numerous posts and honorary positions within Hamburg and the German economy. These include: President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (until 1960), President of the German Industry and Trade Congress (Bonn), President of the Association of German Banks, Member of the Presidium of the German Group of the International Chamber of Commerce (Cologne), Member of the Board of the Federal Association of Private Customers Bankgewerbes eV (Cologne), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the North German Insurance Company (Hamburg) and the North German Life Insurance Company (Hamburg), Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Vereinsbank (Hamburg), the Hamburg-Bremer Rückversicherungs-AG (Hamburg), of Niedersachsen-Versicherungs-AG (Hamburg), Lederwerke Wiemann AG (Hamburg), member of the supervisory board of Blohm & Voss AG (Hamburg), Bayerische Vereinsbank (Munich), Union-Investment-Gesellschaft (Frankfurt am Main), the German-Asian Bank (Hamburg), Kampnagel AG (Hamburg) and Deutsche Maizena-Werke GmbH (Hamburg). Münchmeyer was also a member of the Trilateral Commission .

From 1959 to 1966 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

Münchmeyer is buried in the Hamburg cemetery in Ohlsdorf .

Honors

• 1968: Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Honorary doctorate in law

See also

• Münchmeyer family

literature

• German gender book . Volume 128 (= Hamburg Gender Book ; Volume 10). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1962, ISSN  1438-7972 , p. 68
• Stefanie Viereck: Behind white facades: Alwin Münchmeyer - A banker looks at his life , Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-498-04313-7 .
• Alwin Münchmeyer , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1990 of October 22, 1990, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hamburg, 1881-1981. Höwer Verlag, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-922995-00-4 , p. 286. (Abitur class "Easter 1926 / Class OIa (Schulz)")