Fritz Andreae

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Franz Friedrich Andreae (born February 21, 1873 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 30, 1950 in Zurich ) was a German banker .

Life

He was the son of the Berlin Salonnière Bertha von Arnswaldt from her first marriage to the banker Karl Ludwig Andreae. After graduating from high school, he spent a business degree in South Africa, Great Britain and the USA . He owed his entry into the Hardy & Co. banking house to his mother's personal relationships. His mentor James Hardy prepared him for his future role in the banking house. Because of his international experience, he became head of the international department. After Bankhaus Hardy & Co. was converted into a GmbH , he became its managing director in 1899 .

He rose quickly in Berlin society and in 1902 married Edith Rathenau (1883–1952), a daughter of Emil Rathenau , with whom he had four daughters. In 1912/1913 he had the Andreae house (later Palazzo Paicos ) built in Grunewald by the architects Alfred Breslauer and Paul Salinger .

During the First World War he was an employee of State Secretary Wichard von Moellendorff in the Reich Ministry of Economics . In 1925/1926 he had the architect Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot build a country house in Feldafing on Lake Starnberg. He promoted the artistic director and director Max Reinhardt .

His daughter Ursula married Hans Karl von Mangoldt-Reiboldt , the head of the branch of the Hardy & Co. bank in Munich.

In 1926 Andreae took over the chairmanship of the Dresdner Bank supervisory board . In 1927 he was represented on thirty supervisory boards of German banking and industrial companies and was one of the big linkers . In 1931 he resigned as managing director due to his responsibility for the crisis losses of Hardy & Co., but remained the general agent of the bank. Dresdner Bank averted bankruptcy and took over 90% of the shares by 1936.

He tried unsuccessfully to get a Reich citizenship letter. In 1936 as a "half-Jew" he was forced to resign from the committees of the major bank. In 1938 Edith and Fritz Andreae gave up the house in Grunewald because the management became too expensive and they moved into the smaller Walther Rathenau house in Koenigsallee . In 1939 they received an exit permit and emigrated to Zurich at the end of the year . On September 1, 1939, the Walther Rathenau Foundation was dissolved and the foundation's assets returned to the private property of the Andreae family.

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  1. ^ House Andreae in the district lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
personal data
SURNAME Andreae, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreae, Franz Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1950
Place of death Zurich