Bodo von Wedel

Bodo von Wedel (born August 16, 1891 in Berlin , † June 10, 1969 in Samedan ) was a Reichsbank director.

Bodo von Wedel was the fifth child and only son of the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Deutscher Sport" Franz von Wedel (1853-1914) and Bertha Lehmann. He remained unmarried.

Wedel studied law and became a legal trainee in 1914 from the University of Greifswald with the text "The applicability of the provisions of § 419 BGB in commercial law, especially when taking over a commercial transaction" as a Dr. jur. PhD. From 1916 he was an employee of the Reichsbank, in whose service he remained, from 1935 as Reichsbank director, until he left in 1944 due to illness.

Between 1931 and 1944 he was involved in the so-called standstill and in this respect enjoyed “an excellent reputation in foreign banking circles”, which enabled him to help ensure that the Basel Standstill Agreement of 1931 “worked smoothly and to the satisfaction of all partners”. During the war he was the trustee of the assets of American and British banks located in Germany. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler noted him as the future Vice President of the Reichsbank. On April 21, 1948, the Central Bank Council of the Bank deutscher Länder elected him unanimously in absentia as Deputy President of the Board of Directors, and on May 5, 1948 as President of the Board of Directors. Wedel did not accept either election.

literature

• “Von Wedel, Bodo” in: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Munich 1999.
• Gerhard Ritter: Carl Goerdeler and the German resistance movement. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1956.
• Joachim Distel: The establishment of the West German central bank system with the Bank of German States. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2003.
• Historical archive of the Deutsche Bundesbank, B 330/2050.