August Lenz (banker)

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August "Gustl" Lenz (born March 13, 1905 in Munich ; † 1960 ) was a German private banker .

Life

August Lenz's father was a trained baker and beverage entrepreneur in Munich. In 1952 August Lenz married Liselotte Saalberg. From 1925 August Lenz was employed by Siegfried Salomon Marx at Promenadeplatz 9 in the Munich bank as a broker on the Munich Stock Exchange . In 1931 the Munich banking houses, the Marx brothers and the Schwarzhaupt brothers, merged . 1935 Lenz was - as part of the " Aryanization " - involved in the bank and the bank in August Lenz & Co. renamed.

After May 8, 1945, Georg Spencer Spitz had good contacts with Charles Michaelis, an employee of the Counter Intelligence Corps . This ensured that August Lenz was released from the Munich correctional facility . With pointed and Otto Schmitz Bankhaus dominated August Lenz & Co. , the Munich-based casino consortium , which for a monopoly concession for casinos in Bavaria committed. In 1951, a check for 50,000 German marks to Franz Michel did not bring a majority for a corresponding law in the Bavarian state parliament . In the cabinet II Hoegner 1955 Gaming Act was enacted that the monopoly of Munich casino consortium endangered. A contract was signed with Karl Freisehner, which promised him an interest-free loan of 260,000 German marks in the event that no casinos come into being in Bavaria, in particular no casino concessions are granted.

August Lenz was chairman of the board of the corporation for coarse and fine ceramics Munich - Sinzing - Vienna ( AGROB ), chairman of the professional association for the ceramic and glass industry as well as the family compensation fund , both in Würzburg , he founded the foundation for the prevention of circulatory diseases and died of the Consequences of a cholecystectomy .

August Lenz & Co.

In 1960 the Bavarian Union , Wohnungstreubau- und Bauberatungsgesellschaft mbH was founded. The company collected money in a trust account of the Deutsche Bank , for which Friedrich Zimmermann was authorized to sign. In 1962 Franz Josef Strauss was replaced as Federal Minister of Defense by Kai-Uwe von Hassel . Orders from the Federal Ministry of Defense for the Bavarian Union failed to materialize, and in 1966 they filed a settlement . On June 30, 1967, Friedrich Zimmermann was replaced by Wolfgang Pohle as treasurer of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria . In order to remove the credit of the trust account from access to the creditors of the Bavarian Union , it was transferred to an account of August Lenz & Co. for which Zimmermann was no longer authorized to sign.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is who? Volume 13. Schmidt-Römhild, 1958
  2. ↑ To sell casinos . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1960 ( online - cover picture).
  3. ↑ Meet at Café Annast, money will definitely come . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1955 ( online ).
  4. ^ In memoriam, August Lenz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1960 ( online ).
  5. ↑ The Money, Power, and FJS. How Franz Josef Strauss merged politics and business (II) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1996 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Lenz, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lenz, Gustl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 1960