Gustav Gumpel (banker)

Gustav Gumpel (born September 8, 1889 in Lindhorst ; died February 10, 1952 in San Francisco , United States ) was a German lawyer , banker and industrialist .

Life

Gustav Gumpel was born in the early days of the German Empire in the small town of Lindhorst, the son of Hermann Gumpel , who later became the Hanoverian banker and mining industrialist.

Gumpel graduated from the Leibniz Realgymnasium in Hanover , which he left in 1908 with the Abitur. He studied law at the Universities of Grenoble , Berlin and Göttingen , in 1912 clerk and received his doctorate in 1914 at the University of Heidelberg to the Dr. jur. His dissertation , which he wrote under Friedrich Endemann , was devoted to the topic of money in private law .

As a participant in the First World War , Gumpel rose to lieutenant colonel of the Königsulans , was decorated with the Iron Cross First and Second Class and awarded the Officer's Cross of the Princely Lippe House Order and the Order of Merit Schaumburg-Lippe .

During the Weimar Republic , Gustav Gumpel initially worked for various banks in Berlin and finally in his own family business, Bankhaus ZH Gumpel , for which he received individual power of attorney and in which he became a partner in 1925 . In the following years he was both director and co-administrator of Gumpel's bank holdings in the fields of the potash , cement , asphalt , rubber , machine and transport industries . He was also a member of numerous supervisory boards of various stock corporations , but also of economic and cultural associations and associations.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists came in August 1933 the first attacks on the banks Z. H. Gumpel and Ephraim Meyer & Sohn , which were managed by the family Gumpel since 1926th Without giving any reason, an SS squad carried out house searches both in the family's private apartments and in the business premises. Gustav Gumpel and his uncle and senior boss of the Meyersche Bankhaus, Julius Gumpel , were arrested, while Kurt Gumpel, who was abroad at the time, “[…] did not return to Germany because of the threats pronounced against him, as he was about to return had to fear his life ”. In the course of the so-called " Aryanizations " , Gustav Gumpel emigrated to Switzerland in February 1937 .

Gustav Gumpel was married to Lilli Freudenheim (born 1903), who gave birth to his daughter Gerda in 1924 and his son Heinz in 1926 . All three also emigrated to Switzerland.

Fonts

• Money. The money in civil rights. Rößler & Herbert, Heidelberg 1914 (legal dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1914).

See also

• History of the Jews in Hanover

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. German business publisher, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry by Gustav Gumpel in the California Death Index 1940–1997.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (overall management): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933 . Edited by the Institute for Contemporary History and the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration. Vol. 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life. Saur, Munich / New York / London / Paris 1980, ISBN 0-89664-101-5 , p. 253 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
3. ↑ Peter Schulze : Gumpel, (1) Hermann. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, p. 141 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
4. ↑ Catalog card , dissertation catalog of the University Library Basel , accessed on October 23, 2016.
5. ^ Ingo Köhler: The "Aryanization" of the private banks in the Third Reich. Repression, elimination and the question of reparation (= series of publications on the journal for corporate history. Vol. 14). 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-53200-9 (dissertation, University of Bochum, 2003; limited preview in the Google book search).