Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank

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The Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank , also known as Braune Hanne , Hypothekenbank Braunschweig , Hypothekenbank Hannover or Bhh for short , was one of the oldest mortgage banks in Germany and the only real estate credit institute in Braunschweig . She went late 20th century by fusion in the Berlin-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank AG on shortly Berlin Hyp .

history

Share over 1000 RM in Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank from June 1927

The credit institute was founded in 1871 in the legal form of a stock corporation (AG) with a capital of 1,800,000 marks .

The founding members included Louis Ephraim Meyer and his banking house Ephraim Meyer & Sohn as well as August Basse , who was also one of the directors of the bank until 1908.

In the following year, 1872, business operations began in the cities of Braunschweig and Hanover , with the introductory business in Hanover representing a loan of 1,000,000 marks to the city. In the same year Julius Benfey became legal director of the BHH.

The building of the former Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank, built at the end of the 19th century and now a listed building, at Landschaftstrasse 8 in Hanover, has been the place of work for the bank director Heinrich Tiefers for more than 25 years

The business activity of the "Braunen Hanne" initially only extended to the Duchy of Braunschweig and the province of Hanover , but was quickly expanded to the entire area of northern Germany . After relocating the headquarters to Hanover, a representative new building was moved into in 1898 on the corner property at Landschaftstrasse / Sophienstrasse.

In 1890 Bernhard Caspar became a member of the bank's supervisory board , and in 1913 took over the post of chairman of the supervisory board .

In the meantime, Heinrich Tiefers had been appointed director of the bank in 1908 and headed it for more than a quarter of a century.

The positive development of the banking business was particularly evident in a sharp increase in loans and sales of Pfandbriefe . In particular, the banking crises during the Weimar Republic , the other banks, for example, during the German hyperinflation or after Black Friday and in the Great Depression hit, the "Brown Hanne" survived well.

In 1936, the bank took over the Hannoversche Bodenkreditbank and at the same time its Berlin branch .

After the Second World War , members of the Hanoverian Freemason lodges , who had been persecuted and partially expropriated during the Nazi era , met in rooms that were provisionally rented in the BHH building.

After the currency reform in West Germany in 1948 , which initially caused the bank - like other banks - severe losses due to the "[...] schematic conversion of Pfandbriefe and mortgages at a ratio of 10: 1", BHH's business volume grew strongly, especially through the boom in residential construction and the rapidly increasing private demand for condominiums and, in particular, real estate for war victims as well as refugees and displaced persons .

In the 1950s, the received NS - war criminal Albert Filbert up a position at the BHH and climbed the career ladder within the bank to the manager of the Berlin office from 1 January 1958 up.

After the majority of shares in the BHH of the Brunswick State Bank had been held, these 1,970 were in the course of from Alfred Kubel initiated and Wilhelm Pleister accompanied merger of the Brunswick State Bank with the Hannoversche Landeskreditanstalt, the Lower Saxony Housing Credit town shank and the Lower Saxony Landesbank Girozentrale for North / LB to the legal successor .

On the occasion of the company's 100th anniversary, BHH set up a foundation with 500,000 DM for charitable purposes in 1971 .

In 1995 the branch in Berlin was given up. In the following year, 1996 , the Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank merged with the Berliner Hypotheken- und Pfandbriefbank to form Berlin-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank, Berlin Hyp for short .

In 2008, Nord / LB still held a good 9% of the shares in the former BHH.

literature

  • Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank. In Heinz Lauenroth , Ewald Brix , Herbert Mundhenke et al. (Ed.): The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover. Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, Hannover 1954, p. 364.
  • Ernst Knacke: One hundred years of Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank. Festschrift of a bank with contributions from the past and present. Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank, Hanover 1971.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 81.
  2. ↑ Compare the information in the authority data set GND 2048058-1 of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Peter Schulze : Meyer, (9) Louis Ephraim. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 253 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Basse, (1) August. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 43 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Benfey, (1) Julius. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 48.
  6. ↑ Peter Schulze: Caspar, Bernhard. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 83 f.
  7. ↑ Christian-Alexander Wäldner: Heinrich Tiefers, bank director, Royal Dutch Consul. In: Alexander Wäldner: The Technical University of Hanover and the withdrawal of academic titles during the Nazi era. Results of Hanover processes taking into account the case of Walter Dux. (= History , volume 112.) (also master thesis 2012 at the University of Hanover) Lit Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2012, p. 61 fu ö. ( Preview of Google books )
  8. ↑ Gustav Gogowski: Data and facts from the history of the Freemason lodge "Friedrich zum Weißen Pferde" in Hanover from 1746 to 1996. In: Siegfried Schildmacher (Red.): 1746–1996. 250 years of the Freemason's lodge “Friedrich zum white horses”. Hannover 1996, pp. 8-17.
  9. ^ A b Braunschweig-Hannoversche Hypothekenbank. In Heinz Lauenroth, Ewald Brix, Herbert Mundhenke et al. (Ed.): The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover. Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, Hannover 1954, p. 364.
  10. ↑ Alex J. Kay: The Making of an SS Killer. The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905–1990. Institute of Contemporary History, Berlin. Cambridge University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-1-316-60142-6 , p. 92. ( Preview of Google Books )
  11. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Pelp, Wilhelm. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 287 f. ( Preview on google books )