Fritz Butschkau
Fritz Butschkau (born March 13, 1901 in Wilmersdorf near Berlin ; † October 10, 1971 in Düsseldorf ) was a German bank manager .
Career
Butschkau was born the son of a bank clerk. He studied four semesters at the Handelshochschule Berlin and then until 1925 economics at the Friedrich Wilhelm University .
He began as an association officer at the Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband in Düsseldorf and in August 1931 took over the management of the branch of the Deutsche Girozentrale (DGZ) in Cologne . Before that, he had participated in a conversation in July 1931 as an association representative, in which the decision was made to convert the Cologne Landesbank branch into a branch of the DGZ. During this meeting, Butschkau met Konrad Adenauer , then Lord Mayor of Cologne and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Landesbank of the Rhine Province. Butschkau became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 .
In April 1935 he switched to the newly founded Rheinische Girozentrale and Provinzialbank as a full board member . In 1951 he became chairman of the board of directors and president of the Working Group of German Savings Banks and Giro Associations, from which the German Savings Banks and Giro Association emerged in 1953 with Butschkau at the top. He remained chairman of the board of the Rheinische Girozentrale until his retirement in June 1968.
At European level he was a member of the Economic and Social Committee of the EEC from 1958 to 1966 and head of the EEC Savings Banks Association from 1963 to 1966.
Honors
- 1966: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications
- Willingness to build up and performance of the German savings banks . Stuttgart: Sparkassenverlag, 1950
- The Savings Bank in the Change of Economy and Society , Stuttgart 1963
literature
- Barbara Gerstein: Life pictures from the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. Born 1968–1972, ISSN 0458-9254 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Pohl / Thorsten Beckers, Institute for Bank History Research, Scientific Advisory Board, Deutsche Bankiers des 20. Jahrhundert , 2008, p. 37
- ^ Peter Mantel: Business Administration and National Socialism: An Institutional and Personal History Study . Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8349-8515-6 , p. 672
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butschkau, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bank manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilmersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1971 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |