Bank JW Junker & Co.
The banking house JW Junker & Co. ( Russian И. В. Юнкеръ и Ко ) was a bank in Moscow .
It was founded in 1839 by Johann Wilhelm Junker (1797–1847) from Göttingen, initially as a Disconto-Kontor. Until 1873 it was a private company performed, in a corporation (товарищество) and 1911 finally into a public limited company under the name & Commerzbank IW Junker Co. converted. The main seat was the house of Kuznetski Most 10 (later renumbered to No. 16). The St. Petersburg branch was located at 12 Nevsky Prospect .
In the years before the First World War , when the bank took third place among Moscow financial institutions, Heinrich Bockelmann was its director. During the World War the German-born owners had to sell the bank. In 1916 the company was renamed the Moscow Industrial Bank. At the end of 1917, after the October Revolution , the bank was expropriated and closed by the Bolsheviks .
literature
Petrov, Jurij A .: The bank "JW Junker & Co." German entrepreneurs in Russia from the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century; in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 42 (1994), pp. 202-216 ( online ).