Eugen Gutmann

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Max Liebermann : Portrait of Eugen Gutmann, 1907
Gutmann's photograph, 1920
Gravesite of the Gutmann family. On the left, memorial inscriptions for Fritz B. and Luise Gutmann, murdered in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz in 1944 .

Eugen Gutmann (born June 24, 1840 in Dresden , † August 21, 1925 in Munich ) was a German banker .

On his advice, the Kaskel family converted their private bank into a joint stock company in 1872 , the Dresdner Bank . Gutmann, who has since been considered the founder of the institute, was chairman of the bank's board of directors from 1872 to 1920 , then honorary chairman of the supervisory board until his death . In 1905 he was also a co-founder of the Deutsche Orientbank and the German-South American Bank . Gutmann introduced the branch bank concept in Germany. In 1881 the first branch was founded in Berlin, which became the headquarters in 1884. In this way he achieved rapid growth for Dresdner Bank. In 1889 the Gutmann family converted from Judaism to Christianity.

Gutmann was involved in the financing of German heavy industry , including as a member of the supervisory board of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , the Saar and Mosel mining company and the German-Austrian mining company . By buying up shares in Hibernia AG for the Prussian government in the so-called Hibernia affair, however, his reputation among leading Ruhr industrialists such as August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes suffered , as he worked for the nationalization of collieries. In 1920 Gutmann retired to the post of Honorary President of Dresdner Bank.

His son Herbert M. Gutmann (1879–1942) was involved in the economic activities of the German Empire in the Orient in the period before the First World War as co-founder, director and later also President of the Deutsche Orientbank . His grandchildren are Fred Gann and Marion Whitehorn.

The son Friedrich (Fritz) Gutmann , also a banker, and his wife Louise were victims of the Holocaust in 1944 .

In 1998 Dresdner Bank's capital city office on Pariser Platz was named after him. In 2002 Dresdner Bank founded the Eugen-Gutmann-Gesellschaft, whose aim is to develop and preserve the history of Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank , other private and joint stock banks and banking history in general under the motto “The future needs memories”.

The family's grave is located in the urn cemetery on Richtstrasse in Berlin-Wedding .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.pnn.de/potsdam-kultur/51881/
  2. ↑ MANAGER: The fight for Arabic . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1998 ( online ).
  3. ↑ see English Wikipedia : Friedrich Gutmann
  4. ↑ https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kreditinstitut-praesentiert-rekordverbindungen---stellung-in-europa-gestaeckt-dresdner-bank-erhoeht-risikovorsorge-16373374
  5. ^ Grave site of the Eugen Gutmann family Friedparks.de, accessed on April 6, 2012

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SURNAME Gutmann, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1925
Place of death Berlin