Curt Sobernheim
Curt (also Kurt ) Joseph Sobernheim (born January 10, 1871 in Berlin ; died June 24, 1940 in Paris ) was a German banker .
Life
Curt Sobernheim was the brother of Walter Sobernheim (1869–1945) and Moritz Sobernheim (1872–1933) as well as a stepson of Eugen Landau (1852–1935), who patronized him and paved the way for him. His parents were Anna, geb. Magnus (1850–1908) and the banker Adolf Sobernheim (1840–1880). In 1892 Curt Sobernheim joined the Society of Friends . In 1902 he moved from the Breslauer Disconto-Bank to the National Bank for Germany to the position of deputy director before he became director there. From 1911 he worked on the board of the Commerz- und Disconto-Bank in Berlin, where he was entrusted with various tasks, such as For example, to develop relationships with domestic and foreign industrial and commercial circles or to perform duties as a member of the supervisory board (30 supervisory board mandates in 1917).
In 1929 he received the title of Dr. hc for electrical engineering at the TH Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig . After the German banking crisis in 1931 , Sobernheim lost his position on the board. There is (as of 2003) no indication that Sobernheim had to retire as a Jew.
After the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, Sobernheim fled to Paris. When the Wehrmacht won the campaign in the west in June 1940 and quickly occupied parts of France, Sobernheim was tracked down by the Gestapo and died a little later in custody.
literature
- Siegmund Kaznelson (ed.): Jews in the German cultural area . Berlin, Jewish publishing house 1962
- Detlef Krause: Sobernheim, Curt Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 519 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
- John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 755.
- Sobernheim, Curt , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 706
- Sobernheim, Curt , in: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 5. Chernivtsi, 1931, p. 557
Web links
- Curt Sobernheim in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic
Footnotes
- ^ Banking history Commerz- und Disconto-Bank 1870-1920 / 23 , accessed April 19, 1920
- ↑ Thomas Weihe: The personnel policy of the large branch banks 1919 - 1945. Interventions, adjustments, evasive movements. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006, page 217 ( online )
- ↑ Ludolf Herbst, Thomas Weihe (ed.): The Commerzbank and the Jews, 1933-1945 , CHBeck 2004, page 49 ( online )
- ^ Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933, vol. 1. Munich 1980, p. 706.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sobernheim, Curt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sobernheim, Curt Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Jewish banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1940 |
| Place of death | Paris |