Benjamin Buttenwieser
Benjamin Joseph Buttenwieser (born 1900 in New York City ; died December 31, 1991 there ) was an American banker.
Life
Buttenwieser attended Columbia College and graduated in 1919. He worked for the investment banker Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and became a partner there in 1932; he worked in the bank until the merger with Lehman Brothers in 1977. Buttenwieser worked as a board member in various industrial companies. Buttenwieser served on the board of the American Jewish Committee and was philanthropic in a number of institutions.
Since 1929 he was married to Helen Lehman, a niece of Herbert H. Lehmans , who worked as a lawyer. Buttenwieser and his wife were politically active and their name was on the Master list of Nixon's political opponents . During the Second World War he was the commander of a naval aviation unit. In 1949 Buttenwieser was appointed deputy to the American High Commissioner John Jay McCloy in occupied Germany and worked on the reparation policy of the Federal Republic until 1951 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Benjamin Buttenwieser in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Eric Pace: Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, Investment Banker, 91 , New York Times obituary, Jan. 1, 1992
- ↑ Constantin Goschler : Reparation: West Germany and those persecuted by National Socialism 1945–1954 . Munich: Oldenbourg, 1992
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buttenwieser, Benjamin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buttenwieser, Benjamin Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1991 |
| Place of death | New York City |