Banking house Neelmeyer

Banking house Neelmeyer
Headquarters in Bremen, Am Markt 14–16
Country	Germany
Seat	Bremen
legal form	Branch of the Oldenburgische Landesbank AG
Bank code	290 200 00
BIC	NEEL DE22 XXX
founding	1907
Website	www.neelmeyer.de
Business data 2017
Total assets	1,279.5 million euros
insoles	1,036.2 million euros
Customer credit	556.0 million euros
Employee	255
Offices	1
management
Board	Axel Bartsch (Chairman) Wolfgang Klein Karin Katerbau Hilger Koenig Jens Rammenzweig
Supervisory board	Ernst Thomas Emde (Chairman)

The Bank Neelmeyer is a private bank , headquartered at Bremen's market square in the city of Bremen . It has been operating as a branch of Oldenburgische Landesbank AG since 2019 .

history

Founding and 1920s

Franz Neelmeyer ran a brokerage business as a sole proprietorship from 1907 to 1920, which was converted into a general partnership in November and back into a sole proprietorship in 1922. Heinrich Landwehr joined as a partner in 1922, but the capital to found a bank was still lacking.

The Neelmeyers brokerage business was converted into a bank in 1923 with the capital and staff of the Oldenburgische Spar- und Leihbank. The Oldenburg brought in 150 million marks. In the limited partnership banking P. Franz Neelmeyer & Co, limited partners of the Oldenburgische Spar- und Leihbank , four partners were personally liable: Franz Neelmeyer and his authorized signatory Heinrich Landwehr from the brokerage company and Herrman Leverenz and Adolf Arnold from the Oldenburgische Bank. At the end of 1923 the bank had eight employees. At the end of 1923, due to inflation, the “paper mark balance” was over 360 quadrillion marks. The bank survived the crisis-ridden period of the Weimar Republic largely unscathed and services were also offered for business customers. It was initially operated in rented rooms at Neue Sparcasse Am Markt 14. In 1924 they moved to the rented house at Buchtstrasse 67-68 (corner of Sandstrasse) due to a lack of space. In 1927 the Oldenburger Bank increased its deposit to RM 600,000. In the same year, after the merger of the Neue Sparcasse with the Sparkasse Bremen, the property Am Markt 14 was bought . In 1929, Black Friday reduced total assets by 50% and continued to decline in 1930. During the banking crisis in 1931, after the speculative bankruptcy of Nordwolle , the Schröder Bank was temporarily insolvent and, like the Bremer Beamtenbank, the Neelmeyer banking business had to close its counters because many customers were demanding their deposits back.

time of the nationalsocialism

From 1933 onwards, the Neelmeyer banking business benefited from the expansion of the Bremen ports and the armaments industry. Leverenz and Landwehr joined the SA in 1934 and the NSDAP in 1937 . The Neelmeyer Bank submitted "with passionate devotion to the ideas of the Führer" and served "the economic development of the entire German fatherland". In 1938, the accounts of Jewish customers were also blocked at the Neelmeyer Bank. The amount of money kept growing. In 1941 the company had 30 employees and total assets of approx. 13 million Reichsmarks. According to the 1942 annual report, the bank benefited mainly from loans for armaments contracts. In 1944 the bank building burned down. The banking business could continue provisionally in the basement rooms of the ruin and in the rooms of the Bremer Landesbank.

Post-war development

At the end of 1945 the bank had 23 employees again. The denazification commission stated that Hermann Leverenz “did not actively support the NSDAP” and was “only a national socialist in name”. In 1948 he was classified as a fellow traveler, as was Heinrich Landwehr. Both had to pay a fine of 2000 RM each. In 1946 the reconstruction of the bank building at Am Markt 14 began , also with the help of the employees in their free time. The bank's money supply, which had sunk at the end of the war, reached almost RM 37 million in 1947.

In 1953, the neighboring house at Am Markt 15/16, which had been badly damaged in the war, was bought, rebuilt and redesigned by 1954 and united with the parent company. During this time the bank grew from 70 to 117 employees and the profit rose from 249,000 DM in 1951 to 733,000 DM in 1954. In 1958, the addition to the name Bankhaus was granted. Between 1959 and 1971 branches were opened on Breitenweg , in Gröpelingen and Schwachhausen as well as in Pappelstraße , An der Herrlichkeit, in Vegesack , Osterholz , Horn-Lehe , Hastedt and in Delmenhorst . In 1961, profits fell by 30% to DM 1.9 million compared to the previous year. The reason was the collapse of the Borgward works and an economic crisis.

In 1964 the limited partnership was converted into a stock corporation with a capital of 10 million DM, in which the Sparkasse Bremen participated. Until 1982 the annual dividend was 10%. The Herrmann Leverenz Foundation was established in 1965 . The office building at the glory was occupied in 1967 and equipped with the first EDP technology. In 1969 the share capital was increased by 30% to DM 13 million; the shares are sold to Bremer Landesbank, which thus held 26% of the shares. In the course of the banking crisis triggered by the Herstatt bankruptcy in 1974, the Neelmeyer bank also ran into difficulties. An anonymous and false warning of imminent bankruptcy was circulated in June. Private customers withdrew up to 5 million DM in cash from their accounts at Neelmeyer-Bank every day and checks from the bank were no longer accepted. Bremer Sparkasse then increased its stake in Bankhaus Neelmeyer AG drastically, since otherwise “serious damage to the Bremen economy would have threatened” (Bremer Nachrichten of August 31, 1974). It then held as many shares as Bremer Landesbank. The balance sheet total fell by 120 million DM to 427 million DM. The balance sheet total of the crisis year 1973 was not reached again until 1977.

In the 1980s, the bank's shares went to Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank . Vereins- und Westbank AG has been the sole shareholder since 1996 . In 1997 the business activities of the sister company Geestemünder Bank AG were taken over and a branch was founded in Bremerhaven. Then the bank was a 100 percent subsidiary of UniCredit Bank AG (HypoVereinsbank) in Munich .

Takeover by Bremer Kreditbank and end of legal independence

In March 2016, Bremer Kreditbank (BKB) bought the Neelmeyer bank; since April 1, 2017, the bank was a wholly-owned subsidiary of BKB and no longer a member of the Cash Group .

At the end of 2017, the branches in Bremen- Schwachhausen and Bremerhaven were closed.

After Bremer Kreditbank AG was merged with its subsidiary Oldenburgische Landesbank AG (OLB) at the end of August 2018, Bankhaus Neelmeyer AG was a subsidiary of OLB. At the turn of the year 2018/2019, Bankhaus Neelmeyer AG was finally merged with OLB. Since then, the Neelmeyer bank has operated as a legally dependent branch of OLB.

building

Main entrance

The building ensemble at market 14 to 16 consisted of

• No. 14, the Bremische Hypothekenbank from 1895 to 1898 by Albert Dunkel and
• No. 15–16, the Niedersächsische Bank from 1893 by Fritz Dunkel and Hermann Meyer, with the Utlucht from Wilcken'schen Haus from around 1650.

As one of the last town houses on the market square, the Wilcken'sche Haus, built around 1650, had to give way to a new commercial building in 1893 . The Niedersächsische Bank had the neighboring house at Am Markt 16 torn down and built a new building that reused the facade elements of the Wilcken house, such as the late renaissance gable .

Buildings 15 and 16, which had been independent until then, were combined in 1912 to form a four-storey restoration and office building following plans by the architect Rudolf Jacobs . The associated doubling of the gable and the addition of storeys to the building took place against the resistance of the Senate's Art Commission. After the war destruction in 1944, the gables were not restored between 1948 and 1950. The reconstruction was carried out according to plans by the architect Herbert Anker . Only one Auslucht (Utlucht) of Wilcken's house has been preserved at the historic site to this day.

Bankhaus Neelmeyer has owned the building at Am Markt No. 14 since 1927 and the bank has had its headquarters at Am Markt 14 to 16 since 1954 .

One of the reliefs by Georg Arfmann

Monument protection

The building ensemble has also been a listed building since 1973 because of the numerous reliefs made by the Bremen sculptor Georg Arfmann .

literature

• Rolf Düsterberg , Gabriele Salmen: “Commitment, initiative, inventiveness” - 100 years of Bankhaus Neelmeyer - founded in 1907. A chronicle. Bankhaus Neelmeyer, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89946-099-5 .

Web links

• Website of the banking house Neelmeyer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Master data of the credit institute at the Deutsche Bundesbank
2. ↑ Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2017 in the eBundesanzeiger
3. ↑ Service . ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bank website, accessed July 3, 2017. 
4. ↑ Article in the Weser-Kurier of August 29, 2017, accessed on June 4, 2018
5. ↑ Announcement of the Oldenburg District Court file number HRB 3003 on December 28, 2018
6. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 31.3 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 24.5"  E