Essen Credit Institution
The Essenes Credit-Anstalt AG , headquartered in Essen was a regional bank , which during the Empire and the Weimar Republic in the finance expansion leader of heavy industry in the Ruhr was.
It had branches in Ahlen, Bochum, Bottrop, Buer, Dorsten, Dortmund, Duisburg, Duisburg-Hamborn, Emmerich, Gelsenkirchen, Gladbeck, Hagen, Hattingen, Hemer, Herne, Iserlohn, Cologne, Krefeld, Lüdenscheid, Menden, Mülheim, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen, Wanne-Eickel, Wesel and Witten.
history
The Essener Credit-Anstalt was created in 1871 from the merger of several small private banks from Essen, Berlin and Barmen under the leadership of Ludwig von Born and Friedrich Grillo . The first branch outside Essen was an agency in Gelsenkirchen , which had been opened in 1887. In the following years the branches opened in Dortmund (1894), Bochum (1896), Herne (1898) and Velbert (1898 to 1905). Richard Bömke became a member of the supervisory board in 1888 and chairman of the supervisory board of Essener Credit-Anstalt AG around 1905/1906. Albert Müller chaired the supervisory board from 1906 to 1922. The bank was also active south of the Ruhr through stakes in the C. Basse banks in Lüdenscheid and Ernst Osthaus in Hagen .
The Essener Credit-Anstalt took over
- 1902 Creditbank AG in Recklinghausen ,
- 1903 the private bank S. Hanf in Witten ,
- 1905 the Iserlohner Volksbank AG in Iserlohn and the Poppe & Schmölder bank in Wesel ,
- 1906 the Westphalian Bank Corporation in Münster with a branch in Bocholt,
- 1909 the Duisburg-Ruhrorter Bank in Duisburg with five branches,
- 1912 the Essener Bankverein in Essen with five branches,
- 1918 the Weseler Bank in Wesel ,
- 1920 the Ahlener Bankverein in Ahlen and the Emden Gewerbebank in Emden .
In 1922, the C. Basse banking houses in Lüdenscheid, JH Hölling in Gelsenkirchen-Buer, and Ernst Osthaus in Hagen, in which the Essener Credit-Anstalt was involved, were converted into branches. In 1925, the Essener Credit-Anstalt became part of Deutsche Bank .
literature
- Walther Däbritz: Memorandum for the 50th anniversary of the Essen Credit Institute in Essen. Essen 1922.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on October 8, 2016
- ↑ Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads. Ed .: City of Essen, Historical Association for the City and Abbey of Essen. Klartext, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 253 .