Anton Ernstberger (banker)

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Anton "Toni" Ernstberger (born August 20, 1910 in Munich ; † December 19, 1978 there ) was a German banker. From 1962 to 1976 he was chairman of the board of the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank .

Life

Ernstberger, son of the city's chief auditor Adolf Ernstberger, studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität after graduating from high school in 1929 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . In 1936 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. After his legal clerkship (1932/36) and the Great State Examination in Munich in 1936, he became an assessor in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior. In 1937 he switched to the Merck Finck & Co bank in Munich as in-house lawyer . After completing basic training from 1937 to 1939, he was a war participant until the end of the war, most recently as captain of the reserve.

After the end of the Second World War, he continued to work for Merck Finck & Co in Munich and in 1950 became their general representative. In 1956 he moved to the Hardy & Co. bank in Frankfurt am Main as managing director . Ernstberger was the managing partner and owner of the private banking house August Lenz & Co. from 1958 to 1960 and the family's executor. In 1960 he joined the management of Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank in Munich, and from 1968 became its spokesman for the board. In 1976 he became chairman of the supervisory board of Hypo-Bank.

In 1970 Ernstberger was significantly involved in the purchase of the Essen Westfalenbank and the Stuttgart private bank Stuber . With the purchase of the Berliner Kindl Schultheiss brewery , he built a beer empire through the Bavarian mortgage and brewery together with Löwenbräu in Munich, Paulaner-Salvator-Thomasbräu-AG , Erste Kulmbacher Actien-Exportbier-Brauerei , Dortmunder Ritter Brewery and Elbschloss-Brauerei Exchange bank on. He positioned the bank as a co-owner of textile companies ( mechanical cotton spinning and weaving mill in Augsburg ), construction companies (Heitmann & Littmann in Munich), mortgage banks (Württembergische Hypothekenbank Stuttgart), the porcelain factory Rosenthal and the investment company Allfonds in Munich. A year earlier, he bought the shares in the Waldhof paper mill from the investor Hermann Krages and merged them with the Aschaffenburg pulp mills to form Germany's largest paper trust, Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg .

In 1968 Anton Ernstberger was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in the Papal Order of Knights in Munich on July 8, 1968 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

honors and awards

swell

  • Who's who in Germany 1974, page 372
  • Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who 1976, Volume 19, Page 202

Web links

  • Anton Ernstberger , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 06/1979 of January 29, 1979, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on November 21, 2014 ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Fifth Radl" , Der Spiegel 34/1970, August 17, 1970
  2. ↑ "Wait a minute " , Der Spiegel 44/1969, October 27, 1969
  3. ^ "Big bankers from Bavaria" , Die Zeit October 17, 1969 No. 42
personal data
SURNAME Ernstberger, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernstberger, Toni (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1978
Place of death Munich