Gottfried Herzfeld banking house

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The building "Gottfried Herzfeld Bankgeschäft" at the address Schillerstrasse 31 at the corner of Andreaestrasse in Hanover, in the foreground on the left the bank Adolph Meyer

The Gottfried Herzfeld banking house in Hanover was founded in 1874 by the banker and namesake Gottfried Herzfeld. The private bank with the monogram consisting of the intertwined letters GH above the entrance of the representative bank with the inscription Gottfried Herzfeld Banking was built in the historicist style as a four-storey corner building with a tower top and as an urban dominant at the address Schillerstraße 31 .

history

The Gottfried Herzfeld banking house emerged from the respected Gottfried & Felix Herzfeld banking house , which went into liquidation in 1899 despite numerous advances.

After founding the private bank, Gottfried Herzfeld was one of the founders of the public limited company for the operation of the Offstein sugar factory in 1883, together with Felix Herzfeld, who was also based in Hanover, and others .

In 1911 the son of the banker and company founder, Karl Herzfeld , married and took over the management of the bank in the same year.

Before the German hyperinflation during the Weimar Republic , the banking firm Gottfried Herzfeld led a group of around ten important private bankers in 1922 - including a company from Frankfurt - in order to found a "central bank" in Berlin with the Norddeutscher Bankverein AG, which was dissolved in 1924 .

In 1929 - the year of the Great Depression - the management of the bank was made difficult by disagreements between the owners.

Karl Herzfeld survived the times of National Socialism and the Holocaust . He died in the Bavarian capital Munich in 1970.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Blanck : The banking and stock exchange in the city of Hanover. Excerpt ... / Honor table and foundation sequence of the anniversary companies of the Hanoverian banks and bankers , in Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the picture material), anniversary -Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 148ff .; here: p. 150
  2. ↑ a b Annemarie Jaeggi: Adolf Meyer. The second man. An architect in the shadow of Walter Gropius. Exhibition on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus 1919/1994, March 27 to May 29, 1994, Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design, Berlin. Partly at the same time dissertation in 1992 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Argon-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87024-264-7 , p. 376; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ A b Hans Hinrich Lembke : banker, forger, historian. The path of Isaac Lewin through the history of his time (= series historical science , vol. 60), Freiburg im Breisgau: Centaurus Verlag and Media, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86226-176-5 , p. 87; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Paul Wolf : Germany's urban development. Hanover ed. in agreement with the city council of Hanover. Edited by Senator City Planning Officer Paul Wolf, DARI, Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag, Berlin-Halensee, 1922, pp. 214–215
  5. ^ A b Gustav Voltmer: The banking system in the city of Hanover, its development and situation , inaugural dissertation 1931 at the University of Göttingen, 1931, p. 40; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ . O V. : sugar factory Marloffstein on the side of Südzucker AG [no date], last accessed on January 1, 2020.
  7. ^ Hans Hinrich Lembke: Banker, forger, historian. Isaac Lewin's path through the history of his time , p. 91

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 33.1 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 14.5"  E