Emil Herzfelder

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Emil Herzfelder (born December 14, 1879 in Nuremberg , † after 1945) was a German general director.

Life

Herzfelder completed a degree in law and political science at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Würzburg. He received his PhD on 20 December 1903 of the University of Wuerzburg on the history of credit insurance to Dr. jur. et. rer. pole. He worked as a lawyer at Allianz Insurance in Munich and was promoted to board member of Globus Insurance in Hamburg.

On October 7, 1917, he and Wilhelm Kißkalt founded the Hermes Kreditversicherungsbank Aktiengesellschaft in Berlin , which is considered the first German credit insurance company , and he became its director. Herzfelder published the theoretical basis for this type of insurance as early as 1904.

Heart Fields stood from 1932 to 1935 the Victoria insurance as general manager before. After the seizure of power , the pressure on the insurance industry to lay off its Jewish employees increased and in 1935 he was forced to emigrate to Great Britain. He was expatriated on September 4, 1941. In 1946 he became a British citizen.

With a resolution of August 15, 1941 and an announcement in the circular of September 16, 1941, Herzfelder was depromised by the University of Würzburg . He was one of the more than 180 people from whom the University of Würzburg revoked their doctorate between 1933 and 1945. This was only reversed in 2011 by resolutions of the Senate and a public commemoration.

Works

  • Credit Insurance History. Berger, Lucka S.-A. 1903. Zugl. Würzburg, Univ., Jur. A. State Science Diss., 1903.
  • The problem of credit insurance with special consideration of the professional provision of information and the out-of-court settlement. Deichert, Leipzig 1904.
  • Liability insurance. Mittler, Berlin 1914. 2nd edition 1932 with FK Katsch.

literature

  • Herzfelder, Emil . In: Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d University of Würzburg (ed.): The robbed dignity: the revocation of the doctoral degree at the University of Würzburg 1933–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011, p. 169 ( digitized from books.google.de ).
  2. ^ A b Who is who in Insurance , Singer Company, 1908, p. 141
  3. ↑ From Hermes to Euler Hermes: a beautiful story for the 95th birthday. In: Euler Hermes Annual Report 2012, pp. 32–33 ( PDF ( Memento of the original dated July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geschaeftsstellenfinder.eulerhermes.de
  4. ^ Peter Koch: History of Insurance Science in Germany, Karlsruhe: Verl. Versicherungswirtschaft, 1998. P. 273
  5. ^ Gerald D. Feldman: Allianz and the German insurance industry, 1933-1945. CH Beck, 2001, pp. 97-98 ( digitized from books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ The National Archives, Naturalization Certificate (Einbürgeungsurkunde)
personal data
SURNAME Herzfelder, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general director
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH after 1945