Arthur Solomon's son

Arthur Salomonsohn (born April 3, 1859 in Inowrazlaw , † June 15, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German-Jewish banker.

Life

Salomonsohn was the nephew of the general partner of the Disconto-Gesellschaft Adolph Salomonsohn . After studying law, he joined the Disconto-Gesellschaft and in 1895 also became a personally liable partner of the institute. The following year he joined the Society of Friends .

In 1917 Salomonsohn became a member of the German Fatherland Party . In 1919 he helped finance the Anti-Bolshevik League . In May 1918 he wrote to the State Secretary of the Reich Treasury :

“Russia [...] is a colonial country at the gates of Germany, which promises abundant employment to German trade and industry for many decades to come. Opening up this colonial Germany is the order of the day. "

Salomonsohn was heavily involved in the financing of the Rhenish-Westphalian heavy industry, including as chairman of the supervisory board of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerk AG .

At the beginning of the Weimar Republic he supported Hugo Stinnes and Albert Vögler in their projects for the reorganization and vertical concentration of German industry through the formation of interest groups.

Salomonsohn was skeptical about the merger of Disconto-Gesellschaft and Deutsche Bank in 1929, but became chairman of the supervisory board of the new company after the merger. From 1917 to 1930 he was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

literature

Martin L. Müller: Salomonsohn, Arthur Moritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 395 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Ulrich Wehler: German history of society . CH Beck, 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-32264-8 ( google.de [accessed June 30, 2017]).
↑ Wolfgang Schumann , Ludwig Nestler (Ed.): Weltherrschaft im Visier. Documents on the European and world domination plans of German imperialism from the turn of the century to May 1945. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1975, p. 154.

Web links

Commons : Arthur Salomonsohn - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Arthur Salomonsohn in the catalog of the German National Library
Newspaper article about Arthur Salomonsohn in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Biography of the Historical Society of Deutsche Bank

personal data
SURNAME	Solomon's son, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German banker
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Inowrazlaw
DATE OF DEATH	June 15, 1930
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hans-Ulrich Wehler: German history of society . CH Beck, 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-32264-8 ( google.de [accessed June 30, 2017]).

[2] Wolfgang Schumann , Ludwig Nestler (Ed.): Weltherrschaft im Visier. Documents on the European and world domination plans of German imperialism from the turn of the century to May 1945. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1975, p. 154.