Emil Krämer

Emil Krämer (born August 11, 1877 in Worms , † November 10, 1938 in Munich) was a German lawyer and co-owner of the private bank H. Aufhäuser in Munich.

Life

Krämer, a German of the Jewish faith, grew up in Worms and studied law . The doctor of law was admitted to the bar in 1903, but mainly worked as a banker at the Munich private bank Aufhäuser, one of the most important German private banks of the 1920s and 1930s. Initially active as in-house counsel, Krämer took over shares with Siegfried Aufhäuser in 1921 and became a partner in the renowned bank. Krämer was also on the supervisory board of various Bavarian industrial and trading companies. He also worked as a lawyer. For his 20 years of unobjectionable professional activity, he received the title of Counselor in 1925 .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, reprisals began against Jewish citizens, including Emil Krämer. Efforts by the Munich Bar Association to deprive him of his license failed. Nevertheless, Krämer gave up his license and worked only as a banker until his death in 1938 under unexplained circumstances. His bank was also subject to reprisals. In the course of the November pogroms , the bank was stormed and devastated. The Gestapo ordered the forced Aryanization. Under the guidance of the Reichstag member Emil Klein , Krämer's private apartment was also ravaged. The following day Emil Krämer and his wife Elisabeth were dead, allegedly by suicide . The events surrounding the death of Krämer and the Aufhäuser bank attracted international attention. The British newspaper " The Times " reported about it in its November 11, 1938 edition.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heiner Emde: Prologue to the Holocaust , in: Focus No. 46 (1998).

literature

• Reinhard Weber: The fate of the Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-58060-0 .
• Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of private banks in the Third Reich. Repression, elimination and the question of reparation. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53200-9 .