Veit L. Homburger bank
The Veit L. Homburger bank in Karlsruhe was founded in 1854 by the Jewish citizen Veit Löw Homburger. The bank was liquidated by the National Socialists in 1939 , the bank building at Karlstrasse 11 was retained.
history
The Homburger family was one of the oldest Jewish families in Karlsruhe. The first ancestor of the founder of the bank, who was allowed to settle in Karlsruhe in 1722, was Löw from Homburg am Main , known as Löw Homburger. Veit Löw Homburger (1810–1878) founded the bank in 1854 when he separated from his two brothers, with whom he ran his father's banking and bills of exchange business. The two brothers each founded their own banks.
From 1899 to 1901 a new building was built for the Veit L. Homburger bank at Karlstrasse 9-11 on the corner of Akademiestrasse by the architects Robert Curjel and Karl Moser .
The writer Carl Einstein started his apprenticeship at the Homburger company around 1904.
The boycott measures of the National Socialists forced the liquidation of the bank in 1939 and from the 1940s the building was used by the Badische Kommunalen Landesbank (Bakola), which after various mergers and name changes became the Baden-Württembergische Bank (BW-Bank), which took over the building used until 2010.
There is now an Italian restaurant belonging to the Vapiano chain on the ground floor .
literature
- Esther Ramon: The Homburger family from Karlsruhe . In: Heinz Schmitt (Ed.): Jews in Karlsruhe. Contributions to their history up to the Nazi seizure of power . Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1988 (2nd revised edition 1990), ISBN 3-7617-0268-X , pp. 465-468.