Bank of Gdansk
The Bank of Danzig was the central bank of the Free City of Danzig from 1924 to 1939 .
history
The Bank of Danzig was founded on February 5, 1924 with a capital of 7.5 million guilders. They moved into the building of the Reichsbank main office , which ceased operations on December 31, 1923. On March 17, 1924, it started business operations. As a central bank, it was the issuer of the Danzig Gulden , the Danzig currency created in 1924 after hyperinflation .
President of the bank was initially Konrad Meissner and Walter Bredow and from 1933 Carl-Anton Schaefer . Chairman of the supervisory board was Carl William Klawitter and after his death in 1929 Ernst Plagemann .
After the annexation of Danzig by the German Reich, the Reichsmark was introduced in Danzig and the Bank of Danzig was dissolved.
The gold holdings of the bank, which served as currency cover, were mainly stored in London . With the attack on Poland these assets were confiscated by the British government and handed over to Poland in 1976 , which had annexed Danzig after the Germans were driven out.
Building of the Bank of Gdansk
The bank building at Karrenwall 10 was built at the beginning of the 20th century for the Reichsbank headquarters. After the annexation in 1939 it served again as a branch of the Reichsbank. In World War II it was badly damaged in 1945. Simply restored, it is now a bank building of the Polish national bank Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP) .
Legal bases
- Law on the introduction of the guilder currency of November 20, 1923
- Convention between Danzig and Poland at Geneva of September 22, 1923
- Central Bank Act of November 20, 1923
- Note privilege from November 20, 1923
- Articles of Association of the Bank dated February 5, 1924
literature
- State Statistical Office of the Free City: State Manual of the Free City of Gdansk. Edition 1926 , Danzig 1926, pp. 115–152.
Web links
- Newspaper article on the Bank of Danzig in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl Jacob Burckhardt : My Danziger Mission 1937-1939. Callwey, Munich 1960, p. 176
- ↑ Danzig Gold; in: Der Spiegel from August 30, 1976
- ↑ Law Gazette P. 1299
- ↑ Law Gazette P. 1300
- ↑ Law Gazette P. 1305
- ↑ published in the State Gazette 1924, No. 8
Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 58.6 ″ N , 18 ° 38 ′ 47.4 ″ E