Gustav Adolf Salander

Gustav Adolf Salander (born March 29, 1900 in Bremen , † July 29, 1996 in Bremen) was a German lawyer and bank director.

biography

Salander was the son of a businessman. He graduated from the old grammar school in Bremen and from 1918 studied law at the University of Tübingen , the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the University of Leipzig . During his studies he had to serve as a soldier in World War I and he fought in a student battalion against revolutionaries in Stuttgart and Augsburg in 1919/20 . In Leipzig he received his doctorate in 1922. jur. and in Bremen he did his legal clerkship .

Afterwards Salander worked as a councilor at the port administration in Bremen and temporarily as legal advisor at the Reich waterway administration. In 1932 he became director of the state main treasury and state commissioner of the Vegesack and Bremerhaven savings banks. At the same time he was a member of the management board of Bremer Hansa-Bank AG . When these financial institutions merged into Bremer Landesbank as a state bank in July 1933 , he became a member of the board. Landeshauptkasse and Landesbank resided in the House of the Reich . In 1937 the Landesbank moved into the former Danatbank building on the Unser-Lieben-Frauen-Kirchhof square . In 1938 the Bremer Landesbank and the Staatliche Kreditanstalt Oldenburg merged from 1883 (since 1983 Bremer Landesbank Kreditanstalt Oldenburg - Girozentrale ). Salander - still a member of the government - lost his position at the state main treasury and stayed with the bank. During the Second World War he served as a soldier from 1939 to 1940. In 1941 he was dismissed from the civil service as a senior government councilor to be appointed director of the Landesbank.

After the war, for political reasons, he could no longer take on the position of director of the Bremer Landesbank. He became a lawyer in 1947 and led an important legal practice in the real estate and housing market. The practice contributed to the founding of GEWOBA and carried out some well-known processes (building land scandal, Lutzeprocess). He last lived in the Riekestrasse senior citizens' facility in Horn .

Works

• Bremen in the course of six decades . Hauschild, Bremen 1977, ISBN 3920699157 .
• Fate or coincidence? Bremen through a hundred years . Hauschild, Bremen 1987

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Adolf Salander in the catalog of the German National Library