Edgar Most

Edgar Most (born March 21, 1940 in Tiefenort ; † December 12, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German bank manager . He was the last Vice President of the State Bank of the GDR in 1990 and co-founder and chairman of the board of Deutsche Kreditbank AG . He belonged to the advisory group of the federal government for the reconstruction of the east as well as the discussion group east .

Life

Most came from a family of miners in Thuringia. At the age of fourteen he began an apprenticeship in banking at the German Central Bank in Bad Salzungen . In 1964 he was able to successfully complete his correspondence course at the technical college for finance in Gotha . After that, at the age of 22, he was delegated to Schwedt an der Oder to what was then the largest industrial construction site in Eastern Europe. He was used as a branch manager, later at the age of 26 as the youngest bank director in the GDR for the development of the petrochemical combine . Edgar Most was a member of the SED and was also listed as IM "Heinrich" by the Stasi . However, he did not hide the contact with Stasi employees, but officially invited them to his office and told friends and colleagues about his contacts and obligations. As an unreliable cadre, he was monitored. Back in Berlin he worked at the head office of the State Bank of the GDR and decided to study at the Humboldt University with a degree in economics. He successfully completed another distance learning course as a graduate economist at the Berlin-Karlshorst School of Economics .

As one of the directors, Most became the last Vice President of the State Bank of the GDR in 1990. He was co-founder and CEO of Deutsche Kreditbank AG , the first private bank in the New States. After the bank was bought by Deutsche Bank , he became a member of the management team at Deutsche Bank in Berlin in December 1990. Until 2004 he was director of Deutsche Bank in Berlin and a member of the management of Deutsche Bank. Most was CEO (1999 to 2002) of the East German Bankers Association .

Edgar Most was chairman of the support and friends' group of the TU Ilmenau from 2001 to 2008 and chairman of the university council of the TU Ilmenau from 2008 to 2015.

Edgar Most lived with his wife in Berlin; the marriage resulted in two children. Until recently he maintained an office in the International Trade Center on Friedrichstrasse. He finds his final resting place in the Pankow XII cemetery in Berlin.

Supervisory board mandates

• Aker MTW Werft Wismar GmbH
• co.don AG (1999-2003)
• Silicon Sensor International AG (1998-2008)
• Domus AG, auditing company / tax consulting company, Berlin
• Sodawerk Staßfurt
• Keulahütte GmbH Krauschwitz

Awards

• The Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Economic Academy in Moscow awarded him an honorary doctorate .
• In 1998 Edgar Most was awarded the title of Honorary Senator of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Fonts

• Fifty years on behalf of capital. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-360-01960-8 .
• Betrayed people? Panel discussion, edited by Bernd Kauffmann (= Edition Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation , Volume 5), Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940737-60-1 (The panel discussion “Betrayed People?” Took place on April 18, 2009 at the castle Neuhardenberg instead).
• with Steffen Uhlmann (ed.): Sprengstoff Kapital: secret truths about the upswing , Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-360-02111-3 .

literature

• Zeno Zimmerling, Sabine Zimmerling (ed.): New Chronicle DDR. Reports, photos, documents Part: Series March 6 , 1990 - May 6, 1990 , Tribüne, Berlin 1990, p. 9, ISBN 3-7303-0639-1 .
• Andreas Herbst :  Most, Edgar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Maren Martell, Kathrin Höhne: "Edgar Most" , in: My Freedom - Stories from Germany , epubli, Berlin 2014, pp. 142–149, ISBN 978-3-7375-0615-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Edgar Most in the catalog of the German National Library
• Miriam Schröder: The banker's call for revolution , on www.zeit.de, November 8, 2009
• “The East becomes impoverished, old and dumbfounded” Interview with Edgar Most, May 2, 2009
• Portrait audio image by MDR Figaro ( Memento from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Interview with Dieter Kassel in MDR on February 6, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edgar Most obituary , FAZ , December 19, 2015.
2. ↑ Kopper honors Edgar Most as the chief architect of the unit , Die Welt , March 23, 2000.
3. ↑ The End of Illusion ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Der Spiegel , September 20, 2004. 
4. ^ Structure East according to Edgar Most , Döbelner Allgemeine Zeitung , July 6, 2009.
5. ↑ Profile of Edgar Most , denkwerkstatt-mv.de
6. ↑ ^{a b} It's like in the GDR , Sächsische Zeitung , July 4, 2009.
7. ^ The Cancer Society , Die tageszeitung , April 14, 2009.
8. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article650435/Ausgereglich-die-Stasi-Akte-rettet-den-guten-Ruf.html
9. ↑ This is how he presented in an interview with Christoph Amend / Stephan Lebert : Der Tanz mit dem Teufel , Die Zeit , September 2, 2005.
10. ↑ Background: Edgar Most , Berliner Morgenpost , September 5, 2004.
11. ↑ Review - Lecture and conversation with Dr.hc Edgar Most  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), ost-west-forum.de
12. ↑ Learned to dance with capital ( memento of the original from January 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 18, 2008. 
13. ↑ Manfred Waldmann: Kopper honors Edgar Most as chief architect of the unit. In: welt.de . March 22, 2000, Retrieved October 7, 2018 . 
14. ↑ http://www.fh-schmalkalden.de/Fachhochschule+und+Stadt+Smalkalden+laden+zum+Neujahrsempfang-p-6289.html Archive link ( Memento from July 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Edgar Most. In: Obituaries. Der Tagesspiegel , December 27, 2015, accessed on December 28, 2015 . 
16. ↑ Aker Ostsee: New supervisory board for Aker MTW constituted  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
17. ↑ Edgar Most resigns from the supervisory board of co.don AG without notice , bionity.com
18. ↑ Report of the Supervisory Board in March 2009 , silicon-sensor.com (PDF file; 65 kB)
19. ↑ Domus AG website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), accessed November 27, 2009.
20. ^ [1] Deutsche Bank Annual Report 2003
21. ↑ [2]
22. ↑ Honorary doctorate for Edgar Most  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )