Friedrich Sperl
Friedrich Sperl (born January 7, 1897 in Bromberg ; † June 5, 1985 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German economist.
Born as the son of a government councilor in Bromberg , Friedrich Sperl grew up in Posen , where he also attended grammar school. In 1919 he began to study law in Rostock .
Sperl had been a ministerial official in Berlin since 1924, from 1934 Reich Commissioner at the Berlin Stock Exchange and in 1937, until his dismissal from political founder, head of the banking department in the Reich Ministry of Economics . He became a member of the board of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Bodencreditbank, 1940/41 consultant in the Reich Commissariat for the administration of enemy assets, then managing partner and finally general director of the company Telefonbau und Normalzeit in Frankfurt a. M .; Contacts to resistance groups through Goerdeler, imprisoned from August 1944 to April 1945: Gestapo imprisonment in Berlin, Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. After 1945 he worked for industrial associations, since 1963 chairman of the money and credit committee at BDI, a. a. Chairman of the relief organization on July 20, 1944, in 1948 he was a founding member of the Central Association of the Electrical Industry .
Friedrich Sperl is buried in the New Bockenheim Cemetery.
His wife Lydia Sperl (born February 25, 1906 in Munich; † February 23, 1992 in Frankfurt) was a painter and came from the German-Russian family of the Barons von Falz-Fein, who married the family of the writer Vladimir Nabokov and the composer Nicolas Nabokov was related by marriage. Lydia Sperl's father Eduard Falz-Fein was the brother of Friedrich von Falz-Fein , who himself was a German-Russian landowner and founder of the Askanija-Nowa nature reserve (Russian Аскания-Нова, Ukraine).
Honors
- 1957: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1966: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
Friedrich Sperl Prize (Prize to promote the humanities)
In memory of Dr. hc Friedrich Sperl, economic manager in the resistance against Hitler and committed promoter of culture and science, founded the Friedrich Sperl Prize in 1968 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, which honors outstanding work by young historians. Its doping is z. Currently 2,500 euros.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the entry of Friedrich Sperl's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Biography of Dr. med. hc. Friedrich Sperl in the Federal Archives
literature
- German Biographical Encyclopedia , Vol. 9, Munich 1998
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sperl, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bromberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th June 1985 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |