August Thyssen Bank
The August Thyssen Bank was a bank that existed from 1930 to 1961. Their registered offices were Amsterdam and Düsseldorf .
Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart NV
Before November 9, 1918, August Thyssen founded Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart NV at 18 Zuidblaak in Rotterdam .
The managing directors were HJ Kouwenhoven, DC Schutte and Johann Groninger. Thyssen had an extensive network of financial services providers that allowed it to transfer capital worldwide.
Union Banking Corporation (UBC) in New York was one element of this network . The UBC was on August 4, 1924 by Averell Harriman with a starting capital of 400,000 US dollars for the Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart NV of Holland founded and served as branch of the Thyssen Group in 39 Broadway , New York City . UBC was a bank account of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG .
The arms production and arms trade restrictions of the Versailles Peace Treaty were reacted to by changing names .
Nordstern-Bank AG , founded in 1923, traded as Von der Heydt's Bank in Amsterdam and was taken over by the Thyssen family in 1927. From 1930 it was renamed August Thyssen-Bank and became the owner of the shares in Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart NV
On October 20, 1942, Vesting Order No. 248, on the basis of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the shares in Union Bank Corporation , the shares of which were held by Netherlands NV Handelscompagnie Ruilverkeer , were confiscated, as this company was under the control of Heinrich Thyssen .
After May 8, 1945, August-Thyssen-Bank AG had a place of business in Düsseldorf.
The company came into the news through the Thyssen Bank process .
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the August Thyssen Bank in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ thyssenkrupp, http://www.thyssenkrupp.com/en/konzern/geschichte_grfam_t3.html
- ^ Gerald Spindler: Law and corporate group . University of Frankfurt am Main, 1991, p. 106 FN.80
- ^ Elihu Lauterpacht, CJ Greenwood: International Law Reports . London School of Economics and Political Science. Dept. of International Studies