Georg Heimann

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Georg Heimann with his daughter Paula von Reznicek around 1920

Georg Friedrich Julius Max Heimann (born May 29, 1864 in Breslau ; † December 19, 1926 there ) was a German private banker.

origin

Georg Heimann came from a Jewish family in Silesia . His great-grandfather was Wolf Heimann, who came to Breslau from Brieg in 1780 and ran an important grain and seed business in Breslau. His son Ernst Heimann (1798–1867), Georg Heimann's grandfather, founded a small money and exchange business on May 3, 1819 on the first floor of the Zum Goldenen Stern house in Wroclaw at No. 34 Ring, diagonally across from the gothic east facade of the Wroclaw Town hall. That was the beginning of the E. Heimann banking house , which later became increasingly successful in the goods and forwarding business. Ernst Heimann initiated the establishment of the Breslauer Börsen-Aktienverein and the construction of the stock exchange in Breslau. Ernst Heimann acquired the house at Am Ring 33 (today Rynek 33) on the corner of the chicken market and set up his bank there, see pictures. His wife Johanna geb. Friedländer (1798–1888) founded the Jewish orphanage on Breslau-Gräbschen (ul. Grabiszyńska) and a still existing nursing home on Danziger Straße (ul. Gdańska). Both houses were designed by the architect Albert Grau (1837–1900). Georg Heimann's father Heinrich Heimann (1823–1902) - owner of the E. Heimann bank, Privy Councilor and Vice President of the Wroclaw Chamber of Commerce and Industry - was a co-founder of the Wroclaw Tram Company and created the investment basis for the Silesian Railway. As ordered by his father in his will, he established the Heimann Foundation to support needy citizens of Wroclaw. Heinrich Heimann bought houses 6/7/8 in the street Hühnermarkt, the neighboring houses of the house, see pictures. Am Ring 33 (now Rynek 33). In 1896 he built a house there in the style of the historic renaissance with characteristic turrets based on plans by the architect Albert Grau . The houses at Am Ring 33 (now Rynek 33) and Hühnermarkt 6 were furnished according to plans by the art historian Lukas Krzywki based on the palaces of manufacturers in Lodz .

Grave of Georg Heimann's parents in the Jewish cemetery in Wroclaw, 2015

Heinrich Heimann was born in the Jewish cemetery in Breslau with his wife Paula. Feist , daughter of a Rhenish banker, buried.

Georg Heimann was the nephew of Hans von Hellmann and the uncle of Georg Heimann-Trosien , the son of his brother Dr. Friedrich Heimann (* 1861, fallen in 1915) and his wife Anna, geb. Trosien .

School and study

Georg Heimann attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau like his father and grandfather. As Oberprimaner he was hospite the Knight Academy (Brandenburg) . Otto Heine , who had directed the Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium, became director of the Knight Academy on October 15, 1883. Heimann followed him at the beginning of 1884 and lived there as “the director's pensioner”. He graduated from high school in the fall of 1884. Heimann had converted to Protestant Christianity before 1884.

He studied law at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University and was active in the Corps Borussia zu Breslau in 1885 . He proved himself twice as consenior and fox major . He later moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After the legal traineeship there in 1888 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD .

family

Georg Heimann was married to Valesca (Vally) Molinari , a daughter of the national liberal Leo Molinari . The wealthy, Catholic Wroclaw merchant family Molinari served as a model for Gustav Freytag in his novel Debit and Credit . Like Georg Heimann, Gustav Freytag was a member of Corps Borussia Breslau. Georg Heimann was baptized as a Catholic. Georg and Valesca Heimann had four children, including Paula Stuck von Resnicek (1895–1976, divorced Stuck , divorced Baroness von Reznicek), and Ernst-Heinrich Heimann (1896–1957), who was seriously injured in the war and from 1926 after Death of his father led the bank E. Heimann in the 4th generation, initially Molinari, born with his mother Valeska. The German-Jewish banker Carl Fürstenberg was at his side with advice. Ernst-Heinrich Heimann was born in his first marriage to Marguerite. von Gans (1902–1979), the eldest daughter of the industrialist Ludwig Wilhelm von Gans , married (wedding in 1922 in Oberursel, Taunus) and second marriage to a bookseller. Ernst-Heinrich Heimann is one of the nine members of Borussia Breslau who, according to Nazi jargon, were “ Jewish descendants ” and therefore left their Borussia Breslau to implement the National Socialist Aryan Paragraph, in coordination to ensure the continued existence of the Corps, 1934-1945.

The fortunes of Georg Heimann and his wife Valesca, geb. Before the First World War, Molinari was estimated at 25 million marks (1871) , her annual income at 1 million marks, by far the highest income in Breslau.

plant

Georg Heimann joined his father's bank on September 10, 1891. He became an authorized signatory on July 10, 1892 and a co-owner of the bank on March 15, 1895, exactly 40 years after his father joined the company. Under the management of Georg Heimann, the bank continued to operate according to the old principles of strict solidity and enjoyed an impressive upswing. The first decade of the 20th century in particular showed a notable increase in size.

Heimann became a commercial judge, in 1906 the Royal Prussian Council of Commerce and then the Royal Hungarian Consul in Breslau.

PKO Bank Polski and Bank BPS, formerly Bankhaus Heimann, Breslau, Am Ring 33 (Rynek 33) (corner) and 34 (left) and Hühnermarkt 6 (right), 2015

In 1905 Heimann acquired the neighboring property Am Ring 34 (today Rynek 34), the house "Zum Goldenen Stern", where his grandfather had started a small money and exchange business, see pictures. In 1914 Heimann rebuilt the house at Am Ring 33 (Rynek 33) inside in Art Nouveau style with an impressive staircase with gold decorations. The Renaissance portal adorned with medallions was preserved. On the property at Am Ring 34 (Rynek 34), Heimann built a stately new building according to the plans of the architecture firm Bielenberg & Moser , Berlin, where he was able to set up additional vaults in the basement. The facade at Am Ring 34 (Rynek 34) is built in the historicist Renaissance style, the hall on the ground floor in Art Nouveau style with a glass roof. It was possible to combine the three buildings Am Ring 33 and 34 (Rynek 33/34) and Hühnermarkt 6 behind their different facades to form a powerful business complex. The complex housed the E. Heimann bank until 1945; today PKO Bank Polski and Bank BPS are located there. Georg Heimann set up additional exchange offices in Wroclaw at Neue Schweitnitzerstraße 4, Adalbertstraße 2 (corner of Uferstraße), Moltkestraße 1 (corner of Matthiasstraße) and Hohenzollernstraße 28 (corner of Grabitzstraße).

Originally linked to the goods and forwarding business, the heavyweight of the E. Hermann bank has developed into a securities commission business under Georg Heimann. This resulted in ever closer relationships with large-scale Silesian industry, the development of which was extraordinarily stimulated and promoted by the bank. The company belonged to the AEG financial consortium and took over the Dobersch & Bielschowsky banking house in Breslau. The E. Heimann banking house joined the ranks of private bankers in the German Reich who had the strength to oppose the increasingly powerful major stock banks. The E. Heimann bank issued a large number of war bonds during the First World War. It was the largest private bank in Silesia with its particularly rich and flourishing economic and cultural landscape. In 1933, the bank was ranked 18th among around 1,000 private banks in the German Reich. In 1938 it was in 14th place. The E. Heimann bank was not aryanized by the National Socialists and existed until 1945. Georg Heimann managed the finances of his Corps Borussia for over 20 years .

Georg Heimann had an official apartment in the bank Am Ring 33 and 34 (Rynek 33/34) with a view of the Gothic east facade of the town hall. The Heimann family had another residence in the street Am Oberschlesischen Bahnhof, today ul. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego. His great Villa Park in Scheitnig in Wroclaw (Auenstr. 32, today ul. Miculicza-Radeckiego 8), not far from the built in 1913 Centennial Hall , was a weekly collection point of the Wroclaw Prussia, especially in the First World War for the Prussians on leave . Johann von Mikulicz lived in the villa around 1900 . Heimann owned a baroque palace and manor in Kunern in the Münsterberg district , today Powiat Strzeliński , in Lower Silesia .

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Schneider: E. Heimann, 100 years of a private bank in Breslau (1919)
  2. ↑ Heimann, Ernst (German biography)
  3. ↑ http://dolny-slask.org.pl/5148310,foto.html?idEntity=513021
  4. ^ Heinz Kornemann, The villa of the Breslau architects Grau in Jannowitz , with picture; http://www.heinzkornemann.de/villaGrau.htm
  5. ↑ http://dolny-slask.org.pl/617638,foto.html?idEntity=518566
  6. ↑ a b Archives of the Corps Borussia Breslau
  7. ^ Album Collegii of the Knight Academy, signature: BR 236/42
  8. ^ Album Collegii of the Knight Academy, signature: BR 236/42
  9. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 18/609.
  10. ↑ Jürgen Herrlein, On the "Aryan Question" in student associations , Nomos, 2015, page 366
  11. ^ Dieter Ziegler, citizen and entrepreneur , 2000; therein Ingo Köhler, business citizen and entrepreneur - on the marriage behavior of German private bankers between the turn of the century and the 1920s , page 124 https://books.google.de/books?id=4ceJ_WbMSOMC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=georg+heimann+von+Gans&source=bl&ots= nSLWdEfW2H & sig = eormuuwtmwhlJ-IShfWrA0XPQUE & hl = de & sa = X & ei = 4BMjVfTaO4vmaoCGgJAC & ved = 0CDwQ6AEwBQ # v = onepage & q = & fvon% 20 .heimann% 20
  12. ^ Manfred Hettling: Political Bourgeoisie. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, ISBN 978-3-525-35678-4 , p. 114 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  13. ^ Hermann Sternagel-Haase, Corps Borussia Breslau 1919 - 1951 , Cologne / Aachen 1987, p. 70
  14. ↑ http://dolny-slask.org.pl/5233610,foto.html?idEntity=514840
  15. ↑ https://www.google.de/maps/@51.109738,17.033119,3a,75y,69.6h,107.63t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1smSCQj5RNRNeIz7am93Ys7w!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1
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  17. ↑ Rynek 33/34: Bank w trzech kamienicach (Polska, 2011)
  18. ↑ http://library.fes.de/breslau/pdf/a9703461/a9703461_03.pdf
  19. ↑ Jews in the German Cultural Area , A Collection, Second, greatly expanded edition, 1959, page 758
  20. ^ Hans Schneider: E. Heimann, 100 years of a private bank in Breslau (1919)
  21. ↑ Bankhistorisches Archiv, Zeitschrift zur Bankengeschichte, Supplement 41, The Private Banker : Niche Strategies in Past and Present , 2003, page 44
  22. ↑ Bankhistorisches Archiv, Zeitschrift zur Bankengeschichte, Supplement 41, The Private Banker : Niche Strategies in Past and Present , 2003, pp. 39, 40
  23. ^ Ingo Köhler, The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the Third Reich. Repression, elimination and the question of reparation , Munich 2005 (series of publications on the journal for corporate history, vol. 14), page 349 https://books.google.de/books?id=Kyvvx7pxsIIC&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=Ernst+Heinrich+Heimann&source = bl & ots = ZLL4NFqwEY & sig = EnK2bLwP5EWEUFGoN0amvMdROEw & hl = de & sa = X & ei = LxgjVemyNsbjatv9gdgN & ved = 0CFEQ6AEwCw # v = onepage & q = f% false 20Heimann & q =% false 20He
  24. ↑ a b Heinrich Bonnenberg et al. (Ed.): History of the Corps Borussia zu Breslau. The first 100 years 1819–1919 , 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Aachen / Cologne 1984, p. 326.
  25. ↑ Ärzteblatt Sachsen 2004 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slaek.de
personal data
SURNAME Heimann, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heimann, Georg Friedrich Julius Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1926
Place of death Wroclaw