Banking house CL Seeliger

Banking house CL Seeliger KG
Country	Germany
Seat	Lange Herzogstrasse 63 38300 Wolfenbüttel
legal form	Limited partnership
Bank code	270 325 00
BIC	BCLS DE21 XXX
founding	November 1, 1794
Website	www.seeligerbank.de
Business data 2018
Total assets	598.6 million euros
insoles	389.8 million euros
Customer credit	442.8 million euros
Employee	80
Offices	1
management
Corporate management	Personally liable partner: Friedrich-Carl Heidebroek Christoph Schmitz

The CL Seeliger bank is a private bank based in Wolfenbüttel . It is run by the personally liable partners Friedrich-Carl Heidebroek and Christoph Schmitz. With a history going back more than 225 years, it is one of the oldest private banks in Germany.

Banking

The banking house CL Seeliger has its business focus in the support of wealthy private customers of the entrepreneurial middle class and agriculture in the region Wolfenbüttel / Braunschweig. In addition to this core area, the bank looks after customers across the entire spectrum of financial services in the region of southern and central Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. The range of services offered by the bank includes not only classic banking products, but also investment and lending in particular. Due to its rich history, the bank is linked to agriculture. The CL Seeliger bank is one of the few banks that still issues four-digit account numbers.

The bank is a member of the Bundesverband deutscher Banken eV and its deposit protection fund, as well as the Cashpool ATM network , which enables its customers to withdraw cash free of charge from all member banks' ATMs.

history

History before 1900

The basis of the CL Seeliger banking house was the trading business of Heinrich Anton Christoph Seeliger (1755–1838). This began its business on November 1, 1794. HAC Seeliger initially concentrated on the yarn trade. A year later (1795), the first attempts to trade in grain followed. Trade relations with Holland, Elberfeld and Barmen, the major centers of the textile industry, were opened up and expanded. At this time, the Seeliger trading company intensified its export business. In 1801 the balance of the trade showed a fortune of 115,000 thalers. The balance sheet in 1824, the last year in which HAC Seeliger managed the company alone, showed assets of 173,600 thalers.

The company's founder's sons, Carl Ludwig Bernhard Seeliger (1795–1859) and Theodor Seeliger, joined the company in 1825 as partners. Since then, the name of the trading company has been "Heinrich Seeliger & Sons". In 1825 the company moved to its headquarters in Wolfenbüttel, which still exists today. Carl Ludwig Bernhard Seeliger had acquired it in 1823 for 4,500 thalers from the princely court pharmacist Anton Friedrich Dünnhaupt (1772–1867). It was one of the former court officials' houses and one of the oldest residential buildings on this street. The motto of Duke August the Younger is also the motto of the bank in the baroque essay on the Renaissance portal . It reads: “Everything with care”.

Heinrich Anton Christoph Seeliger died on January 1, 1838. The two sons continued the business together. They separated on October 1, 1840 by mutual agreement. Carl Ludwig Bernhard Seeliger founded his own company under the name CL Seeliger and, in addition to the trading business, increasingly devoted himself to the banking business started by his father. In the course of 1841 he expanded the trade to include colonial goods such as chicory, beets, sugar, saltpeter, flax, hops and tobacco.

In 1852 Gustav Seeliger (1828-1891), son of Carl Ludwig Bernhard Seeliger, joined his father's company as a partner. After the death of Carl Ludwig Seeliger on September 17, 1859, his son Gustav continued to run the business as the sole owner. After the cousin of Carl Ludwig Seeliger, Leopold Seeliger, joined the company as a partner for a short time, Hermann Mengen, a friend and employee, followed him as a partner. From now on, banking came to the fore. Carl Ludwig Heinrich Wilhelm Seeliger (1855–1923), son of Gustav Seeliger, joined the company on October 1, 1879.

Gustav Seeliger and his son Carl Ludwig Heinrich Wilhelm Seeliger had been partners in the company since January 1, 1882. Since then, the focus has been on pure banking. As a result, the wool trade was given up in 1884. After Gustav Seeliger's death on February 12, 1891, Carl Ludwig Heinrich Wilhelm Seeliger continued to run the company as the sole owner. He was a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament , holder of numerous honorary offices and a member of the supervisory boards of important industrial companies.

History from 1900

Carl Ludwig Seeliger, the eldest son of Carl Ludwig Heinrich Wilhelm Seeliger, joined the company in 1914 after training in various banks. In 1915 he became a partner in the bank. Carl Ludwig Heinrich Wilhelm Seeliger died on April 20, 1923. In 1924 Werner Seeliger and his younger son Louis Seeliger and brother of Carl Ludwig Seeliger joined the company. In 1930, the Braunschweigische Staatsbank invested in the CL Seeliger bank with a limited partner's contribution. The cooperation ended in 1940. During the National Socialist era, the bank had to submit to various interventions by party authorities.

History from 1945

In 1945 Carl Ludwig Seeliger, who was politically unaffected and known as an opponent of the National Socialists, was appointed by the British occupying forces as district administrator in Wolfenbüttel.

Political changes after the Second World War also meant serious economic cuts for the bank. The catchment area of ​​the bank in the Halberstadt and Magdeburg area was lost. The takeover of the Wolfenbüttler Bankhaus Fink in 1948 resulted in a reorientation. In 1952, the Schöppenstedt payment office, a former branch of the agricultural bank, was incorporated. After Carl Ludwig Seeliger's death on November 25, 1956, Werner Seeliger became the sole personally liable partner. In 1958, Rudolf Müller, with the company since 1935, joined the company as a further personally liable partner.

Werner Seeliger died on January 28, 1958. This ended in the fifth generation of management by members of the Seeliger family. Rudolf Müller was the sole personally liable partner until March 1, 1988. Lonny Seeliger (widow of Carl Ludwig Seeliger) became a personally liable partner in 1958 with a share of 25% and remained so until her death on October 19, 2000 at the age of 102.

The circle of limited partners was expanded at the end of 1970 by the entry of Norddeutsche Landesbank (NORD / LB), a successor to the Braunschweigische Staatsbank, with a 25% stake. In 1977 NORD / LB sold its shares to the Vereins- und Westbank. These were bought back by the bank at a later date. On January 1, 1978, Carl-Alexander von Below became a personally liable partner. In 1987, Jochen Winter succeeded Rudolf Müller as a personally liable partner.

On November 1, 1994, the bank celebrated its 200th birthday.

History from 2000

Camill Freiherr von Dungern joined the CL Seeliger bank as a new personally liable partner on January 1, 2000. Jochen Winter left the bank on December 31, 2000 and Carl-Alexander von Below on September 30, 2001. Friedrich-Carl Heidebroek succeeded him as the new partner.

Christoph Schmitz joined the bank in October 2012 and on January 1, 2013 became the new personally liable partner alongside Friedrich-Carl Heidebroek and Camill Freiherr von Dungern. On June 30th, Baron Camill von Dungern left the bank.

Headquarters Wolfenbüttel

The headquarters of the bank is located at Langen Herzogstrasse 63 in Wolfenbüttel. The bank moved into the historic building as early as 1825. With its portal, it is one of the few examples of stone-built town houses in Wolfenbüttel in the late Middle Ages. Duke August d. J. von Braunschweig and Lüneburg , who ruled from 1635 to 1666, acquired the house in 1646 from the heirs of a wealthy citizen. He had it set up as a Princely Pharmacy, which is why the portal also bears the ducal coat of arms. It later became the property of the Dünnhaupt pharmacist, from whom the Seeligers bought it in 1825 and have since used it as their company's headquarters.

The main building is over four hundred years old. The warehouse at the rear of the building complex was added in 1840. In 2010 the entire building complex was extensively renovated and modernized.

Seeliger Park and Seeliger Villa

Seeliger Park

Casemates in the Seeliger Park

In 1898/99 the banker Louis Seeliger had a villa built on the former Lindenberg bastion and the park laid out with trees from all over the world.

The city of Wolfenbüttel bought the park in 1976 and opened it to the public. Today you can find the species hemlock, trumpet tree, tulip tree, plane tree and black walnut in the Seeliger Park.

Family villa

Villa Seeliger

The Seeliger Villa was acquired by the city around 1980. At that time, 78-year-old Lonny Seeliger lived in the villa and was given the right to live by the city. Since 2012, the villa has been home to staff offices and additional chamber music, choir and band rehearsal rooms for the Lower Saxony State Music Academy, which is adjacent to the park . For this purpose, the building was renovated in accordance with a listed building.

literature

• Bankhaus CL Seeliger (Ed.): Everything with care? 225 years of banking CL Seeliger. Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 2019, ISBN 978-3-926701-91-6 .
• Gerd Biegel : CL Seeliger banking house 1794–1994; 200 years of banking and regional history in Wolfenbüttel. Self-published, Wolfenbüttel 1994, ISBN 3927939250 .

Web links

Commons : Bankhaus CL Seeliger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the CL Seeliger banking house
• Bankhaus CL Seeliger in the BaFin company database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
2. ↑ Annual financial statements 2018, research at http://www.bundesanzeiger.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 48 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 5.3 ″  E